The Silence Penalty

Or, even better, if they had a "silence" voting option in the vote kick window. There are some good players that shouldn't be on chat. Instead of kicking them, let's just keep the volume down.

Then again, I would be super sad if people voted to silence the raid bongo spammers during faceroll 24-man runs. I crack up at that.

It is my understanding that something like this is in the works. I can't remember the article, but I seem to remember SE announcing a planned Report-As-RMT option on the right-click menu. If enough individuals use that option, the offending individual is banned or silenced (can't remember what was stated) until they can be investigated.

The problem is that this is just a placebo. It may make players feel better, but RMT are ridiculously good at churning out new bots. SE already bans thousands of accounts per week for being RMT (just check out their biweekly "Actions taken against RMT" reports on the Lodestone), and most likely the vast majority of them are RMT bots.

Anyway, we should get our click-to-silence option sooner than later, but I'd be surprised if it makes much of a difference. And, hopefully, large FCs won't use it as a tool to punish legit players who happen to offend one of their members. ("All right, everyone, Some Body was rude to Freshie Fresh in Ifrit Hard - everyone report him as RMT. Let's get his ass banned!")

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Originally Posted by Greydor

Or, even better, if they had a "silence" voting option in the vote kick window. There are some good players that shouldn't be on chat. Instead of kicking them, let's just keep the volume down.

Then again, I would be super sad if people voted to silence the raid bongo spammers during faceroll 24-man runs. I crack up at that.

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Good idea the silence penalty could also be abused by the toxic hunt community probably why square hasn't introduced a system like the silence penalty they need to find a way to stop players abusing it just because they dont like another player

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I like the idea of community dictated moderation. My only concern is that some might use it as a way of abusing others. For example, someone could get their linkshell to constantly report someone they just don't like.
If they can prevent that kind of abuse, then I'm all for it.

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I would hope they still keep watch over it and if abuse is happening, a much worse penalty befalls the people involved.

I've already said something similar to this before (I'm sure allot of people have.)

Tells to friends (both sides have to be friend-ed,) linkshells, Free company chat, and inside instances (Raids, trials, guildheists, and dungeons) should not be affected by this silence.

This silence should only affect shouting, yelling, saying and telling non-friends, in the open world. It should be used for RMT or other out of game advertisements, and should be bannable if the report is falsified.

Maybe first they can work out a quick effective efficient way of actually reporting the bots/messages, instead of having to slog through the current system.

After that you can start worrying about what punishments to dole out to stem the tide.

SWTOR has a "Squelch" system. Basically if someone is spamming or posting rmt ads in chat you can click on their name and "Report" then a window pops up and you specify whether it's spam or RMT then that player gets put into a temporary squelch list for your account. If enough people report the offender then their chat privileges are revoked until their account is reviewed by someone.

How this game has made it this long without a right-click "report" function is beyond me, but the squelch system is also really nice, because then you don't fill up your blacklist with gibberish names that are going to be deleted in a week.

Could they implement that on the forums?

I wouldn't mind seeing this implemented either, but ONLY if they take the time to actually investigate the logs before they dole out the sentence. From my few years of experience with this game, the community is no where near as bad as WoW's is (or maybe that's only because I'm on a mid-population server?), but there are still plenty of trolls that would report people just for giggles and knowing that they would have the chance to ruin someone's day.

I'd be happy to have a simple mute button in instances. It doesn't need to be server- or account-wide, it doesn't even need to be persistent. It can clear as soon as I'm out of the instance. I just don't want to see your overly-complicated macros you have for every skill.