Blacklist Expansion please...

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...

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Originally Posted by Amnesia

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...

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It really would be nice. Or if we could set up custom filters to automatically block any tells that include certain phrases of our own choosing.

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Originally Posted by ariaandkia

Or if we could set up custom filters to automatically block any tells that include certain phrases of our own choosing.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

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.

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yeah, but my point being more of that it would probably filter out more than what the SE's filters would. Especially if there is no response that their tells were "blocked" due to a filter

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Originally Posted by Seshayn

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

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.

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Isn't balmung a legacy server? Probably fewer there due to most people already being well off. RMT people like to target newer groups who are more likely to buy.

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Originally Posted by ariaandkia

Isn't balmung a legacy server? Probably fewer there due to most people already being well off. RMT people like to target newer groups who are more likely to buy.

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People are more well-to-do, yes, but the cost of living is also higher, so to speak. But, yeah, it's probably a mix of the legacy server thing and that I play when most of NA is asleep.

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Originally Posted by ariaandkia

It really would be nice. Or if we could set up custom filters to automatically block any tells that include certain phrases of our own choosing.

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Diablo2 had that on 1.13
People started creating lists on chan and etc, and gold sellers grabbed too and started to write spam based on dodging these lists.
Not enough

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Originally Posted by ariaandkia

It really would be nice. Or if we could set up custom filters to automatically block any tells that include certain phrases of our own choosing.

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That's EXACTLY what I though - local dictionary based chat filter - that would be a GOD SEND!

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Why do you think the spam uses weird letters to spell out web addresses and some of the other text?

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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 ...

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Seshayn

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.

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Agreed. They really should update the /reply feature to reply to the last person who actually got through to you with a tell instead of the last person who attempted to send you a tell as it does now.

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Originally Posted by RaphaelDDL

Diablo2 had that on 1.13
People started creating lists on chan and etc, and gold sellers grabbed too and started to write spam based on dodging these lists.
Not enough

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Yeah, it won't work if people make lists for other people. It would have to be lists that you make yourself. Aka. YOU choose how you want to block them.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Agreed. They really should update the /reply feature to reply to the last person who actually got through to you with a tell instead of the last person who attempted to send you a tell as it does now.

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The reply function is so useless right now...

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.