RMT Bots in Novice Network! We need help!

Names partially censored per forum rules. But here on Balmung we are combating bots in full swing and cannot keep up with over 3 pages of them!

Is there some way to counter this activity on SE's end?

http://i.imgur.com/hwYFq8Q.jpg

PLEASE help! T_T
http://i.imgur.com/GXJdP.gif

Considering I haven't quite achieved mentor status yet, I have to ask...How would this have even happened? Is there someone specifically inviting all these to the Novice Network?

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Considering I haven't quite achieved mentor status yet, I have to ask...How would this have even happened? Is there someone specifically inviting all these to the Novice Network?

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Its the only way, they have to be invited OR they hack themselves into the channel.

I have never seen them in phoenix mentor chat.

You know you can kick them from the chat right :/

Too many in Lamia, see people constantly kicking them out but it feels pointless :(

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Originally Posted by Ignnis

You know you can kick them from the chat right :/

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I believe I've heard that they just end up being reinvited.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Is there someone specifically inviting all these to the Novice Network?

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Yes. Either because they're just adding everyone with a leaf (trying to be helpful?), or because they see all the RMT style names and think it'll be amusing to add them (maybe it's in an attempt to make SE be more proactive towards RMT if they make the Novice Network less effective?)

Also just in case people don't realise, whoever is inviting them doesn't even have to be in the Novice Network themselves, the system quite happily lets you invite even if you're not in the chat channel. And even if we knew who was doing it, it wouldn't make any difference except to cause harassment issues as whoever is doing it isn't technically doing anything wrong either (morally yes if they're intentionally adding them, but gamewise no).

There's no rule that says "Don't invite RMT to the Novice Network". It could probably come under the general causing issues for other players thing, but if SE themselves can't seem to work out who is RMT and remove them, they can't expect the players to correctly identify them either...

:(

As for the kicking, unless it was changed in the patch green leafs are only kicked for 30minutes before being put back in. I would put it on the side of a troll wanting to be funny, but then again on Coeurl I've basically closed out cus I got annoyed at not seeing it be used the way it was intended. If i wanted spam I'd have my tells on.