Please assign a GM to watch RMT /shouts

[frostmagemari]

Easy answer, A few years back, Blizzard enacted a spam-filter on it's trade (and a few other) channels. The filter is able to remove a good percentage of the advertisements by silencing the users that shot-gun entries into the channel until a certain period of time passes.

This should be something that Square is able to do, and doing something like this will both clear the shout (and other large range) channels of a majority of RMT spam as well as trolls who are shotgunning entries into the chat.

I wouldn't suggest putting this feature into /say, /p, /fc or any of the /ls channels though; /sh and /y could benefit from the filter though.

[Tari-F]

Easy answer, A few years back, Blizzard enacted a spam-filter on it's trade (and a few other) channels. The filter is able to remove a good percentage of the advertisements by silencing the users that shot-gun entries into the channel until a certain period of time passes.

This should be something that Square is able to do, and doing something like this will both clear the shout (and other large range) channels of a majority of RMT spam as well as trolls who are shotgunning entries into the chat.

I wouldn't suggest putting this feature into /say, /p, /fc or any of the /ls channels though; /sh and /y could benefit from the filter though.

FFXI actually had a spam filter than stopped most of the RMT stuff, if I recall correctly. They simply haven't implemented their chat filter here, yet. It's one of the things they're looking to implement soon, though, as mentioned here:

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In addition to chat filters, we will continue to address RMT activity through cooperation with our GM teams and STF (Special Task Force). If you are solicited by an RMT company in-game, please do not respond.
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