For the love of god, please... I put 200 spammers on my blacklist in a month. I have added around 1500 names to my blacklist, please.... Stop making me delete 10+ people per day due to the 200 player limit.
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For the love of god, please... I put 200 spammers on my blacklist in a month. I have added around 1500 names to my blacklist, please.... Stop making me delete 10+ people per day due to the 200 player limit.
You can actually safely delete most of the older names. Ones that get banned never get deleted because there's no reason to free up those names again.
Not if you are literally Blacklisting 10-20 people per day. 10 is a slow day. Accounts do not get banned at a rate allowing you to keep up with the rate of spammers. The first thing I do every day, is delete the first 10 on my blacklist, and the 1 or 2 deleted names (if I am lucky) and towards the end of the day, I have to delete another 10 just to keep up. So, frankly, with the rate of bans/deletions vs the rate of incoming gil spam, I would literally need 200% additional space on my blacklist in order to be anywhere close to a situation in which your suggestion solves the issue. It is appreciated however. :3
It would be nice if, just as the blacklist shows which characters have been deleted, it could also show us which of them are banned. That would make it easier to know which ones we can safely remove from the blacklist. If they want to streamline it a bit further, a couple buttons at the top of the list for "Remove all deleted characters" and "Remove all banned characters" would make that far simpler for players to manage.
Why should they highlight which have been deleted or banned? They should just automatically remove those names from your blacklist. I really don't understand why they don't already do that...
Why do you think the spam uses weird letters to spell out web addresses and some of the other text? They keep changing the wording/spelling of the messages they send in order to bypass just such filters that SE already maintains themselves. I doubt players would come up with much better filters than SE can. I suppose it might be harder for the spammers to adjust to, since each player's filters would be different, but just continually changing the wording/spelling of the messages would get around most filters, even if they don't know quite what those filters are.
Siren must be awash in nothing but gil sellers, then. I mean, maybe it's just that I play at a weird time, but I usually don't get more than 2-3 individual sellers on any given day. And when I get 3 or more, I start thinking that they're being particularly annoying that day.
That's EXACTLY what I though - local dictionary based chat filter - that would be a GOD SEND!
It would be not only to filter the Gil sellers and RMT but any kind of unwanted shouts and yells - are you fed up by all those "LFG, LFM, ATMA" shouts? Three clicks and voila - your chat log is free ...
It's more that I play for exceedingly long sessions at a time, days I have free (of which there are plenty) it isn't uncommon for me to spend 12-14 hours actively doing things in game. The likelihood that the average user receives more RMT spam than I do is very low. That said, it does not change the fact that those players who dedicate their free time to this game receive an absurd amount of spam that is harder to regulate due in large part to the clunky limited system of the blacklist.
Edit: Just as I finish posting this, and tab back in to reply to a friend, I type /r Sure. And I get the message "That player is on your blacklist"
This. Is maddening. BS. I cant use the quick reply function within more than 5 seconds of a tell from a friend because someone on my blacklist attempted to spam me, and though the message didn't go through, it got far enough so that I cannot use the reply feature. This also needs to be addressed.
Yeah /r is pretty much useless. What they should also add is an option in setup to change WHO can send you tells with following options (common in any IM system):
- anyone
- your friends and FC members
- whoever you've sent tell to since last login (in this active session)
- noone
Just stop feeding RMT buying them services, and the problem go away from the root.