Please SE, disappear RMT spammers when we report them/

WoW does it. When you report one, it disappears completely from chat for the remainder of your login session. This encourages players to report them. As-is, you report one, and their spam keeps appearing, so why bother?
(I just switch chat to battle mode after reporting the first one so I can't see them any more.)

That's not very bot friendly. The bot overlords will lower your social credit.

I wonder how many active accounts are just RMT bots

when you say disappear, do you mean like... the character visually disappears ? or just the chat itself? because if you mean just the chat itself, just right click the name in the chat > blacklist, and you wont have to see the spam.

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Originally Posted by Zomkei

when you say disappear, do you mean like... the character visually disappears ? or just the chat itself? because if you mean just the chat itself, just right click the name in the chat > blacklist, and you wont have to see the spam.

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Unfortunately, there's a fairly small maximum capacity for the blacklist; I think it's around 200 people? So for me it's not worth putting an account that will only exist for less than a day on there; that space is reserved for players who I might actually run into again.

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Originally Posted by Zomkei

when you say disappear, do you mean like... the character visually disappears ? or just the chat itself? because if you mean just the chat itself, just right click the name in the chat > blacklist, and you wont have to see the spam.

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WoW made it a one step process instead of a 2. Submitting the report would also add the character to a temporary blacklist (so the bots weren't taking up space on a player's regular blacklist).

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Originally Posted by Zomkei

when you say disappear, do you mean like... the character visually disappears ? or just the chat itself? because if you mean just the chat itself, just right click the name in the chat > blacklist, and you wont have to see the spam.

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This isn't true if your blacklist is full.

This title has me picturing the OP as a mafioso telling SE to "Make 'em sleep with the fishes."

I still find it insane that so many people have a full blacklist.
For a temporary fix, just leave a spot or two open for bots and just take them off your blacklist the next day.

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Originally Posted by Thurmnmurmn

I still find it insane that so many people have a full blacklist.

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I'm sure it varies from person-to-person, but I don't find it that surprising. Over the course of nearly a decade of play, how many people do you think a player has interacted with? Either from being matched into a group or from conversations in populated areas...I'm guessing somewhere in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions?

And while overall I find the in-game community to be delightful and positive and friendly, there have been numerous times over the years when I've run into people who go out of their way to be cruel to other players. It's rare, but it does happen. I've got too much respect for my time and energy to give any more of it to someone who's already shown me they can't be trusted with it, and after nearly a decade of play, such people have unfortunately filled my blacklist to the brim.

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Originally Posted by Zomkei

when you say disappear, do you mean like... the character visually disappears ? or just the chat itself? because if you mean just the chat itself, just right click the name in the chat > blacklist, and you wont have to see the spam.

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Just the bot's chat messages, All present and future ones. Blacklist doesn't remove the ones already cluttering your chat window, and doing this would eventually fill your blacklist, since there are multiple new bots every day.

One issue with this in WoW is when you switch classes by logging off one character, and logging in on another, all the temporary report blocks get cleared and you start seeing them again. (I've reported as many as 30 of them in one run.) At least here, you don't log off to change jobs, so the blocks should last much longer.

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Originally Posted by Thurmnmurmn

I still find it insane that so many people have a full blacklist.
For a temporary fix, just leave a spot or two open for bots and just take them off your blacklist the next day.

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Game has been out for just about 10 years now dude. There's gonna be a good amount of players with full blacklists. I had mine maxed out and would have to waste time every so often to check the lodestone to see if they were still active or not depending on their levels/ilvl

Also the fact that people hire other players to warp around and shout about events for them means there's ever growing lists for that stuff. 200 is a baby number for a blacklist honestly.

At least if you couldn't see a spam bot after hitting the RMT report button, it'd help in areas that have a bunch of them (Market boards in the main 3 cities for examples)

Your 'temp fix' only works for people that don't have capped blacklists btw

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

This title has me picturing the OP as a mafioso telling SE to "Make 'em sleep with the fishes."

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I had to double check if he is not a lala..

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Originally Posted by Silver-Strider

I wonder how many active accounts are just RMT bots

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I wonder how many times I have to see this thread? What does it take for people to understand RMT = money. SE can ban these people ALL DAY LONG. They will make new accounts. It will NEVER end. The only way this stops is if the community stops buying gil. People always flock to the path of least resistance so that will never happen.