Spammers/Gil Sellers

[Stoicsquirrel]

For those that wanted a quick way to address the problem with gil sellers sending you /tells:

/blist add <r>

You can add that as a macro to your toolbar, and it will add the last person that sent you a /tell to your blacklist. Haven't found a way to quickly report someone yet, but this is the fastest way to blist them, and then you can freely send a message to S-E at your leisure for the actual report, listing all the ones that did the tells that day.

Hope it helps!

[MoruteAshera]

An easy solution would be to make a puzzle game when you log in... not a captcha, an actual little mini-game with even 9 squares that have to form a picture before you are allowed to load your character in.

We put this into other games, and it works fine.

[Kelryth]

Good ideas all around, but your number 4 is dangerous, because if 5 or 6 people report someone just to grief them, it will ban the victim from using his chat system until the SE investigation...

That is a good point but I was thinking more along the lines of 50-100 people.

[oceanne]

a nice solution would be a "vote" system . when enough peoples (300-400) have blacklister somone (shouter or /tell bots) this account get a temporary ban untill a GM get in the case and check if this Worth a perma-ban or an simple warning , that way the whole communauty participate to the effort against RMT

honestly , you blacklist them anyway , might as well use that fonction to help everyone , you blacklist=you vote . easy and simple

[Kelryth]

I like that idea...lol

[Pendragon72]

yeah these gold sellers are getting pretty ridiculous,and every time i blacklist one i end up running into that character.......just standing in the same city im getting gold spammed in.

[Thr33Swords]

+1 here, for the love of god these assholes are starting to piss me off.

Can't we also get some GM's in all the major towns to automatically ban them the second they get their first /sh out?

[Rivienne]

Just to add to this: the Japanese servers have been so slammed with volume lately that they have all been locked for new characters (not like just the handful on the NA side). Because of this there were no gil spammers. But after the updates today, they opened the worlds all up, and I already have come across 3 gil spammers.

I used the tell trick to blist, but because I am on the PS3 it is impossible to actually report them... (They so need to fix that...sigh...)

Anyway, just to give a heads up to people who (like me) have been spending more time on the JP servers when possible to avoid this annoyance. The JP servers are starting to almost look like the NA side now. Yay?

[M00gle]

I just hope..
1. If the gold sellers / farmers / spammers are being reported by like say 10 players after they post in chat window, they are banned from creating new characters in that specific server. Or else, the cycle will keep going on and on.
2. If the gold sellers / farmers / spammers are banned in more than like say 3 servers, then the whole SE account is banned. It will means they need to buy new digital copies in order to keep spamming. It will be a Win-Win situation for SE and genuine players.

[Rivienne]

I think that it needs to be more than 10 to prevent abuse, and should require review. But honestly what I think they most need is to have an infrastructure where game shout and yell chat is fed to people who can monitor this (so they can have a few people monitoring all worlds). This could be both auto-checked for spam, and manually reviewed. That way they wouldn't even need to be logged into a server to see it for themselves. They should still probably have roaming randomized character GM's, to try and catch directly tell spam though.