Just waiting for a certain subset of ‘forum warriors’ to come along and claim “Chat is PvP”.
For the OP, a couple thoughts:
- The places where unending spam is the norm (Jita and sometimes Amarr) are not really significant enough to bother making game changes for. Especially since the devs seem to have trouble getting chat to work at all, much less ‘properly’.
- The number of spammers who see spam as part of their ‘game play’ in those areas probably exceeds the number of new players who can’t see past the spam. So which group should be catered to?
- Very few new players are going to benefit from ‘less spam’ in Jita or Amarr, since even with spam limits, it’s not the place they’ll receive much in the way of newbro help regardless.
- Limits like “1 minute between posts” or “Max 5 posts in 3 minutes” tend to annoy far more legitimate players than they do muzzle spamtards.
- That said, I personally don’t care what limits they apply to spam limits, since it won’t affect me anyway.
- Streamlining the block process (which is already pretty easy) to the fastest/least click method possible would probably give the best overall results.