Okay, so, I spent this morning with the Chathelper and built in a little extra that, at least to the people using it, fights the spam rather effectively.

To the ones who don't know about it yet, since, well, I actually never officially announced it and let others spread the word, here's the thing.

https://github.com/jetbtc/diggit-chathelper#readme

The latest addition to the Chathelpers functionality is filtering chat messages out by patterns. You can already mute people, but until now there was nothing you could do against bots and spammers in general who keep changing accounts.

Now you can, and it works out of the box. Although, a word of warning: the current default setting is to hide ALL posts with links in them. I know this is not optimal, but I decided to see what you have to say, since blocking buttloads of domains and link shorteners by default might be just as controversial, but even more confusing.

If you're interested, see the Filters section in the Readme, it has examples on how to work with the filters and how to make more conservative ones than the "throw out all links" filter that's default.

Alas, it's possible to have conversations again, so pay the site a visit if you feel like it. Feedback is very welcome, as always!