Is it common to have tons and tons of names on your blacklist?

My blacklist is empty, I don't even block RMT bots and spammers, because they seem to just make a new character and bypass my block.

Yet I see a lot of people who feel very proud of having a lengthy blacklist.

Usually the people I see bragging about their blacklists are terminally online raiders who call everyone they dislike trolls and griefers.

And of course, almost their entire blacklist is comprised of people they meet in pf.

To which I ask, is it common to have 100+ names on your blacklist and is that a healthy way to play this game?

Is it common to have a full blacklist? Yes
Is it healthy to have a full blacklist? Subjectively speaking, probably not. A full blacklist probably says more about you as a person than those that you have played with. Unless they are RMT.

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Originally Posted by SeiyaSoiya

Usually the people I see bragging about their blacklists are terminally online raiders who call everyone they dislike trolls and griefers.

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It's difficult to have a real discussion when you poison the well like that.

I have.. 2..

One was just an abusive troll screaming at random people in Limsa (Very unbalanced individual, telling people to kill themselves over a game). No clue why he's not permabanned.
The other was a player that joined an A2C ultimate group with absolutely no idea what he was doing.

I think my blacklist is pretty long but I don’t know how many as I never check it. Certainly not 100+ though.

It contains the names of extremely toxic and rude people (maybe 5-6 people) and those I consider nuisances: venue spammers that fill my chat window with several long messages, those with ridiculous ascii raid macros and sound spammers in raids and pvp (there was that person constantly doing 5 seconds countdowns in frontlines with a sound at the end of every passing second and text line. Healers don’t needs sounds either every time they use a macro. It’s irritating).

as for RMT spammers, I just report them as blacklisting is useless: they disappear fast and reappear under another name.

I think I just have 1 at the moment. I don't even remember why, but it takes quite a bit to make it on there.

I've only blacklisted emote spammers but then removed them once I finished checking my retainers or doing GC turn-ins whatever the case might be. Think I might have one or two still on some alts' blacklists that I forgot to remove. Is it healthy to have an overly full blacklist? Probably not, at least for me I don't like keeping the names of asshats on a list to remind me they exist. And if the rare instance of continued harassment occurs, I report and ignore.

In game I think I have 2 people on mine - people RMT spamming. Most people in-game are pretty nice - even some people on these forums as far as what I've seen in game.

Forums are another story lol.

My blacklist is pretty empty. But the few times I did extremes with randoms in PF, I could seriously see how even Gandhi would rack up a lot of names really fast.

Mine is completely empty but I never build friendships in game to begin with and couldn’t care less about what someone might yell around me

Only half way full, I used to play PvP ranked. But sometimes you also run into some special beings that kick you because you used a tank lb, and because they are a premade fc group - they will have the majority in a vote. Or people who troll a mentor roulette because they dont wanna try the extreme trial and then provoke shiva during the tank buster cleave and point it into the group. Stuff like that gets blacklist too.

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Originally Posted by Commander_Justitia

Only half way full, I used to play PvP ranked. But sometimes you also run into some special beings that kick you because you used a tank lb, and because they are a premade fc group - they will have the majority in a vote. Or people who troll a mentor roulette because they dont wanna try the extreme trial and then provoke shiva during the tank buster cleave and point it into the group. Stuff like that gets blacklist too.

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I was going to say, even basic PvP roulette that I play that isn't ranked I sometimes see some people start ranting. (Usually people who spend all their time in chat ranting and end up having awful stats at the end.) But, given I probably won't see them again and I play League of Legends, nothing I see even there made me block anyone.

Probably less that 20, closer to 10 most likely..,

But from trolls who actively undermine the party.
Or those who wanted weird specific actions done which in hindsight, seem to point towards them herding bots, specially since the others didn't react at all to the back and forth that came from it when a normal party could do more. <tbh, that one was way more ridiculous, since every other party that was ran the same way as I always have, had no issue at all. F their fake mechanics..,>

Asides from that, probably just one person who were pathetically rude.<By which I mean, they believed their rudeness was based on logic, or a higher ground, be it simply superiority or knowing best, or just being that way with no trigger.>

Specially when it was about differing opinions. <Kinda like when someone thinks they are the best, the anti-karen. but no such thing exists. They made themselves the Karen.>

Blacklisting somone takes way 2 much effort.
It's easier and faster to just ignore ..

The people that say it is common to have a full black list, may need to reconsider quite a bit of things whenever it get to it, just because you do not agree, do not have the same standpoint of for whatever weird reason feel the need to just automaticly blacklist someone, then probably is the person who does blacklist people, that is the problem themself.

If you have a handfull of people and by accident some RMT bots as well, would seem much more healthy and actually the ability to get along with others even if they have some differences.

There is a long line between people that is harrashing you... to people just disagreeing with a few things whenever it get to it, or have a different view.

It is something to think about, it is something to contemplate about as well, and it is something to ask questions to yourself about as well.

Yes I know my english may not be the best, but hey it is my second language, and I speak and/or understand 6 others.

I think I have 5. 3 because they were non-stop spamming sound effects in a Frontlines I was in, one because they were excessively hostile towards me in whispers, and the last one I blocked back in ARR and can't remember why. I honestly don't meet very many toxic players in this game that annoy me to the point that I have to blacklist them.

It's pointless to keep RMT spam bots blacklisted as their accounts are banned within a couple hours and then a new one is created. If you seriously need more room to blacklist people, clear out those first.

My friends list is 200/200
My blacklist is 200/200

I mostly block transphobes, gil spammers, lala erpers, people who send me weird erpy tells and I've been playing on Balmung since 2.0, that's a LONG TIME. I've been here a LONG TIME! So it's not that unusual to me that I'd have both lists full to the brim? I don't think it says anything bad about me to curate my experience either? O_o
For context, ARR dropped on August 24, 2013.
It is now 2023.
10 years of socializing in game.
I am not bragging when I say my blacklist and friendlists are full. I am complaining. I want a larger friend list and blacklist!

I do not think I have ever used the in-game blacklist. I suppose I have been lucky and just not really come into conflict with anyone haha. I do not pay much attention to Lominsa chat, and in Parties you are unlikely to really see anyone again. I think I would add a similar logic to how I use the forums though, as in any form of bigotry, transphobia etc is an instant add.

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Originally Posted by SeiyaSoiya

My blacklist is empty, I don't even block RMT bots and spammers, because they seem to just make a new character and bypass my block.

Yet I see a lot of people who feel very proud of having a lengthy blacklist.

Usually the people I see bragging about their blacklists are terminally online raiders who call everyone they dislike trolls and griefers.

And of course, almost their entire blacklist is comprised of people they meet in pf.

To which I ask, is it common to have 100+ names on your blacklist and is that a healthy way to play this game?

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I have 0 people added in black list or friend list since years.

0/200
0/200

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Originally Posted by Commander_Justitia

Only half way full, I used to play PvP ranked. But sometimes you also run into some special beings that kick you because you used a tank lb, and because they are a premade fc group - they will have the majority in a vote. Or people who troll a mentor roulette because they dont wanna try the extreme trial and then provoke shiva during the tank buster cleave and point it into the group. Stuff like that gets blacklist too.

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why do need blacklist in PvP ranked? Putting a person in blacklist does not remove them from being able to be queued with.
Other stuff u told about - ez offense, that can ez bring people to suspend: Votekick abuse, Duty disruption. No need blacklist for that, coz it wont help to get this premade or troll again.

I have probably 100? Most are Rmts that I do clear out from time to time. Others are people who like other have said are people who've spammed a macro with a call. I don't need to be told that new nodes are popping up 5 times in a row by the same person. Others get on there cause they were disruptive at a party. Had three people at a server wide glamor contest that felt like spamming a certain no longer can be done by the player DRG jump. They even said that their FC leader told them to be disruptive. It's that kind of behavior that gets people onto my list. Or people who have actually harassed me in game by following me around and using the trade command to stop me from teleporting. Doing so faster than I could put myself on busy at times.

I only have 1 person on Block, and thats because they were being a Creep.
Otherwsie, there is no reason to have 100+ people on block....RMT? Psh, thats easy to ignore. If you just want to talk to your friends...we have Linkshells.
Or I think you can disable Shouts in the Chatbox, as most of these RMTs use Shout.

You have the tools, and it really bothers me how people just dont use them.

Mine is loaded with RMT and nightclub spammers.
However, I found an easier solution: I just switch my chat mode to Battle when in the city, so I don't see any chat activity at all.

I've more people blacklisted here than in game. I've a number in game but only...like 2 of them will stay on the list. The others would be RMT or nightclub spammers.

I have nobody on my blacklist. Little bothers or offends me, and I mostly play with people whom I know and like.

At one point I was regularly close to maxed out trying to make the gil sellers shut up, and would rotate out removed characters to make space. That got tiring though, so I started ignoring them as unavoidable. These days I still have a lot of people on the blist, but it's all serial FC/venue/etc spammers. Since those are real people being annoying, the duct tape sticks and I have my peace.

I've got 29 and I think some were venue spammers that were particularly obnoxious about it. A few were a premade where my co-healer bailed after the second Ridorana boss and they refused to kick them, making me solo heal through the next two and when I mentioned the vote kick failed in alliance chat, one of them went "Snitches get stitches" in party chat. Their friend magically came back just in time for the final boss. So they'll stay on that list forever while I'll probably clear others off since those characters may have moved on by now.

I don't really have judgement if someone has a lot of people on their list. They just have people they don't want to see things from so they're using the in-game tools.

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Originally Posted by SassyAssassin

Mine is completely empty but I never build friendships in game to begin with and couldn’t care less about what someone might yell around me

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Same here. I just play the game and do my own thing. I used to blacklist RMT spammers, but there is literally no point since it seems to be a different account every day and I don't spend that much time idling in town to care. Just report and be on my way.

Very occasionally I'll see some problem behaviour being shouting in map chat, but even then I don't blacklist. Annoying or not, I prefer to be aware and not blind to what's going on.

That said, I've seen some threads about players who have serious issues with targeted harassment and stalkers, and Blacklist does almost nothing to help them out. I think the feature needs to be strengthened in this regard.

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Originally Posted by Boblawblah

It's difficult to have a real discussion when you poison the well like that.

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how is that poisoning the well?
people who have many pf people blacklisted are terminally online and need to seek help