Gold Spammers - can we ban them, kill them or do something to just make them shutup?

So I have about 100+ names on my blacklist - all gold spammers. Literally you can't see any chat in cities due to these ass holes.

SE - Can you PLEASE ban these guys - ban the IP, permanently. Heck, ban the account they're on.

Although I wish they would just ban them, 90% of my gripes would go away if they simply added a blacklist option by clicking on their names. It's getting incredibly annoying that I have to attempt to make out a name like dadfsadf lqwhfsadf exactly as it is flying by along with 5 other spammers with similar names. It's getting to the point to where I'm considering quitting.

SE as a company could shut many of those sites down by going after their hosting companies and/or domain registrars. They could also go after their payment processing if they were serious.

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Originally Posted by luxv

Although I wish they would just ban them, 90% of my gripes would go away if they simply added a blacklist option by clicking on their names. It's getting incredibly annoying that I have to attempt to make out a name like dadfsadf lqwhfsadf exactly as it is flying by along with 5 other spammers with similar names. It's getting to the point to where I'm considering quitting.

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right-click name in chat log and "send tell". This will copy the name to the chat entry box where you can copy it to past into your blist.

They need a dedicated team with nice shiny ban-hammers. I think they are still playing catch-up with issues from launch, so they don't have the appropriate resources dedicated to this issue.

But to be honest, it's not SE's fault that the gold sellers are here. STOP BUYING GIL!!!! If no one spends money on gil, gold farmers go away.

We just need a right click name, ignore feature.

People should just stop buying gold from them. But since there is a lot of losers sponsoring those frigging spamers, then we won't ever git a rid of them.

A quick bandaide would be to put a limit on how often you can use /shout every 15 - 30 seconds or so. Like.. 2 times or something.

Having a bot/gilseller spam 30 times in all of 10 seconds makes my brain hurt.

Please, please put a /shout cap within a certain time frame in quick please?

Unfortunately the right click and blist option are only a band-aid to the problem. SE would benefit from taking a page from Blizzard's book and adding a "block" and a "report" option to the context menu you get from clicking a name. The report feature as it exists is unnecessarily long and asks for information that by all rights should auto-populate in the report. Add a drop down menu with reasons like "Spam" "Real money trade advertising" etc. SE doesn't have to worry about reading each one because the system can sort by complaints and forward them based on relevance to the proper people.

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Originally Posted by Leonas

A quick bandaide would be to put a limit on how often you can use /shout every 15 - 30 seconds or so. Like.. 2 times or something.

Having a bot/gilseller spam 30 times in all of 10 seconds makes my brain hurt.

Please, please put a /shout cap within a certain time frame in quick please?

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This. I don't understand why there is no cap for all channels.

I'm really confused.... Final Fantasy XI had a system in place which, to my memory, did a pretty damned good job of blocking tell/shout spam from RMT... As in, after they implemented it, I never saw a tell bot again... How has this not carried over to XIV? I seem to remember it having some flaws, but I'm fairly certain I didn't imagine the whole thing, did I?