ggatm'com achievement

SE, since it's not a bug, since you don't want to block creation character with ggatm'com as name, maybe it can be funny to have an achievement for this ?

http://gilles.boulon.free.fr/ff/14/Image4.jpg

You only have three real friends? For some reason that makes me sad.

seriously... is it so hard to add a filter to block frequently re-occurring gibberish like these names? I mean, FFS... Sellgil and Cheapgil constantly show up in their names! Should be easy enough to find these in the database, do a quick search on their activities, and the hit them with the banhammer--and don't just hit their names, block their IP's if you can. If DHCP leases renew somewhere down the line and that IP address becomes a legit user, then they can contact support through the portal and get it unblocked.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

You only have three real friends? For some reason that makes me sad.

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Maybe he is just far more scrupulous in his dealings than most.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

You only have three real friends? For some reason that makes me sad.

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I would rather have 3 close friends that I talk to every day, than have 30 friends on my list that I never talk to ever.

On topic, it is quite surprising they don't follow names more closely. Another big offender is goldceo, they have a ton of spam bots with that name also as I have a bunch on my blacklist as well.

I have never recieved more than 1 friend request of that type at any given time. Why not get rid of them from the start? Are you just leaving your character online for ages while afk collecting them? o.O
I mean, it takes a few seconds to decline a friend request...
Just curious.

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Originally Posted by Umo

I have never recieved more than 1 friend request of that type at any given time. Why not get rid of them from the start? Are you just leaving your character online for ages while afk collecting them? o.O
I mean, it takes a few seconds to decline a friend request...
Just curious.

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They never stop and they get canceled eventually, so why bother going to decline them. Just leave notification in corner and ignore it.

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Originally Posted by Cakekizy

They never stop and they get canceled eventually, so why bother going to decline them. Just leave notification in corner and ignore it.

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or hop into an instance. can't send me a friend request when i'm in stone vigil can you Ggatm'com?!?

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Originally Posted by Umo

I have never recieved more than 1 friend request of that type at any given time. Why not get rid of them from the start? Are you just leaving your character online for ages while afk collecting them? o.O
I mean, it takes a few seconds to decline a friend request...
Just curious.

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No... Got sick of doing it. Im in a small enough server where I dont get anywhere near 190 at a time, but having to decline twice each time is annoying. Not to mention how ridiculous and sad it is that SE hasnt addressed any of the simple improvements this game sorely needs for us to handle being bombarded with it.
If I were to decline, block, and report every single gil seller that bothers me, id probably be working harder than the entire "RMT task force" getting paid to do it. And for what? Its a wasted effort anyway.

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Originally Posted by Umo

I have never recieved more than 1 friend request of that type at any given time. Why not get rid of them from the start? Are you just leaving your character online for ages while afk collecting them? o.O
I mean, it takes a few seconds to decline a friend request...
Just curious.

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You have to decline them twice... and if you don't block them you will likely get another request/tell from them in their next dump. It is highly annoying to say the least.

I've gotten 15 from Ggatm or Wtbgg based names since I cleared my blacklist Friday. So yes... on some servers, they are spamming the h3ll out of us.

I agree it is a a lot more hassle to decline spam friend requests than it should be. They changed the process a few months ago and made it take more work. Like Tells, Friend Requests are used more by spammers than real people.

As to the OP's idea of filtering, that will simply cause them to use different names. It won't fix anything.

What we need are things like an automatic timed expiration on friend requests, being able to decline with one step instead of having to manually scroll down the list to decline a second time (seriously, why did they do that?), or making a decline/blist function.

Holy damn, I don't think I've even received that many friend requests from...anyone
even gold sellers.

And -I- thought I was mildly inconvenienced at one friend spam/night. Ha.

I've got a list building up right now. There are bots openly camping at the limsa mb. Bots spamming shout chat and more running around ccb openly botting. Why would they stop? Not like square cares about them...