Gil Spammers and sellers - a petition for a solution.

[DannyB]

Hello,

Over the last few days I've started to get more and more /tell messages from users with random names whom are obviously bots trying to sell me gil, items, or power leveling services and other random crap I simply don't care about. I am on leviathan server but i'm sure this issue is affecting ALL players on all servers.

At one point, I zoned into Limsa lominsa lower deck and had to Blacklist not 1, not 2, but 3 user names who were literally flooding the /yell and /shout with repeated sales messages and I could not interact with anyone else until I blacklisted them.

While I understand that completely eliminating these malicious users is going to be quite a process, I also know that there are some effective ways that the issues can be subdued and alleviated.

I ask that this message be given some notice and that the developers please address this sooner rather than later before these malicious greedy users destroy the social / fantasy aspect of the game. I'm sure many users will support me on this.

I urge developers to implement text filters in the log to spot and eliminate spammers who shout as well as those who send large volumes of /tell messages as soon as possible. As an alternative (because i know customer support and schedules can be tight), I ask that you empower the player base to blacklist/report these spammers via a quick and simple right-clicking their names on the chat log.

Thanks.

~Danny

[Kalysta]

/signed

I'm standing in Ul'dah on Sargantas server and I literally cannot read the chat logs because of all the damn gold spammers. And the text is flying by so fast I can barely find names to blacklist.

Would a developer PLEASE reply to this to let us know what is being done to fix this, and when it will be implemented? It's seriously affecting gameplay. You can't ask for help in /shout or /yell before you block these jerks, and the blocking process is extremely awkward for these channels. You can't answer questions. In fact, i'm getting ready to turn off the channel entirely, which kinda defeats the purpose of a massively multiplayer game...can't interact with other players over the easiest interaction method.

[DietMrPibb]

Add blacklist as a right click option in the chat frame, put a hard limit on how many times a player can shout in a given time frame, like once a minute, and auto detect identical yells and mute that player for ~10 minutes or so.

[Hamingju]

I ask that you empower the player base to blacklist/report these spammers via a quick and simple right-clicking their names on the chat log.

also, it would be nice if it copied the text of the offending message, the server, and all other supporting data and sent that to an appropriate place in customer service. also, this would make it so that people couldn't misrepresent a cheater when reporting to CS that this character is a gold/power leveling seller. the same could be used for some cases of harassment.

however this solution has issues since as another poster mentioned the spam is getting pretty silly and is hard to right click on one it goes by so fast.

that said, i would also like to see limits placed on how fast someone can send to shout, yell and tell because this is getting very annoying for not just me but others in the local chatter... once you can see it after blacklisting the spammer.

[Helli]

/signed

I'm standing in Ul'dah on Sargantas server and I literally cannot read the chat logs because of all the damn gold spammers. And the text is flying by so fast I can barely find names to blacklist.

When faced with a flood of gil spam that is flying by too fast to catch names, easiest way I have found is walk out of town......then the spam flood ends. Then just blacklist each spammer, then you can go back into a nice peaceful town.

[Beimer]

This should be there prime focus because each and every one of them created the maximum number of characters wasting precious space while the free access still exist!
They are so out of controll they type up to 15 lines of txt and repete it so fast it makes it even hard to black list cause it toggles from Yell & Shout!
I thought there are GM's in every areay that work for SE surely they can see this as well!
It's almost makes you think that they may be part of the problem because it's not getting any better fut infact worse every night!
Last night alone i blacklisted 8 random and regular names Spamming the txt box!
Totally out of controll!
One Character that keeps comming back uses random letters for name but always starts the name off with a Capital D.
Ive sent at least 10 Harrasment notices but that character keeps comming back!
As if they totally ignoring the problem that they think it isnt important at the moment!
As soon as this free trial ends and I'm having to pay monthly payments for the game they better have solved this problem or i as well as thousands of others will leave!
This was the very reason I left FFXI because they didnt do nothing about it, Because the RMT's horded all the areas power leveling, farming Armor, and gill for their paying customers!

[Hamingju]

When faced with a flood of gil spam that is flying by too fast to catch names, easiest way I have found is walk out of town......then the spam flood ends. Then just blacklist each spammer, then you can go back into a nice peaceful town.

a great idea... thanks for posting this. i will put it to good use.

but... what are we going to do once we have 200 spammer names in our blacklist?

[Omnerabdator]

i already have 40 plp in my blacklist atm...this has got to end!!

[Soterian]

Fully agree with putting a stop to this annoying problem and as food for consideration what about those that have bought the Gil or power levelling that encourages this situation.

[radic202]

Not 100% sure on the numbers but in Neverwinter if a person that was posting Spam, Gold sellers etc...had 5, 6 or 7 or more people right click his/her name as a Spammer within a 1 minute time frame, that person could no longer type in chat for 24/48 hours or so and needed to submit a Ticket to unlock themselves from chatting. Now in Neverwinter as it is F2P, they could probably just create another account and start all over again (after a mandatory 15 minutes tutorial) as in this game they would need legitimate paying accounts.

For me, I found it worked well enough, in this game as I play mostly solo for the time being, I pretty much ignore the chat box but like others said in here, as soon as I zone, literately 50 lines of Spam Gil Seller messages fly by in that box. Just no way I can find the time to put them on ignore one by one.