Give us an option to stop low level characters from sending us /TELL

[Fadigre]

Sorry, i should have clarified, it's late and i'm sleepy, please forgive me!

It's cool, I didn't actually write the word hacked at all in my original post, it's early and I'm sleepy

[HeroSamson]

I had a idea how to stop the /tell- they should give us a option that we can click on/off

On option, Free Company, Linkshell and people on friends list can send /tells.

Off option, it would be as it was before where you can get tells from anyone.

Either that bring over the filter from final fantasy 11 also there is already a option to shut off tells in general but that can be a problem when you cant see people you know send a tell which is why the On option would be nice.

[UlricCraft]

What sort of community would a feature like this create? An elitist one that discriminates against low level players. Not everyone under level 50 is RMT. All you have to is right click and block someone. It takes less than a second.

You sir, are making a great point.

The main purpose of this thread I feel is to block RMT spam and general spam altogether.

We currently have two options.
#1 Block as many RMT spammers as we can until BL fills up. Then suffer.
#2 Change chat setting and do not display /TELL whatsoever.

A method a friend and myself have adapted is to simply chat via Linkshell.
We've got enough linkshells to have a dedicated personal chatroom, and simply turn off everything we don't want. Shame about legitimate /TELLs get filtered.

This is one of my main issues with FFXIV:ARR and would love some solution to it.

~Don't stop people who aren't friends from messaging, this is insanely useful to Free Companies.

[KraggyKor]

What sort of community would a feature like this create? An elitist one that discriminates against low level players. Not everyone under level 50 is RMT. All you have to is right click and block someone. It takes less than a second.

The OP doesn't care about such players, he's happy in his own little world with his elite friends.

@OP: turn off /tells and use FC/LS chat since I expect your circle of friends is pretty small and all will be in one or other such groupings.

[CHunterX]

But RMT can bot their way to 50 in DoL. In fact, they're doing it as we speak :x

RMT do not use the same characters to spam tells as they do to gather. They keep the contact between the two characters to an absolute minimum, to avoid detection.

[Zaels]

Do you honestly think having it vs. not having it will make any difference in how many low level players the OP will talk to? I highly doubt it.

[Dyvid]

Doesn't /busy stop tells?

[Beetle]

Problem is the tells but the rate these RMTs spammers can use it. There needs to be a limit to how many tells min.

[Feilina]

If you continue not reporting RMT it will never get less.
Just ignoring them or deactivating the chat all together can not be the solution you are looking for.

Shiva has become a pretty calm server, regarding RMT activities. In about one week I do receive 2-3 /tells, I report em, BL em and go on. You all should do so too.

[LineageRazor]

Raising the level at which you can send /tells will likely not result in any change in account hacking. I'm pretty sure folks in the business of gilselling are not necessarily the same folks who hack accounts; to assume so is akin to assuming that someone who sells marijuana is also into human trafficking. And, as folks have pointed out, doing so would not stop RMT tells, only delay them; leveling a DoL job to 50 is very easy to do via botting.

Right now, the blacklist system we have isn't too bad; as was mentioned, it takes only a second to add someone. For those worried about filling up their blacklist and then being helpless - try unblacklisting a few of your early ones. I can virtually guarantee that you will no longer receive /tells from those accounts. They may not be deleted, but they HAVE been banned (which is not the same as a deletion).

I'm not against the notion of setting up a system of /tell filters (such as the friend-only, FC-only, etc system mentioned), but I think it would be kind of sad for people to use it, since it would filter out good-natured and honest /tells along with the gilsellers. It may not come up often, but I don't mind helping out if someone randomly asks me for crafting advice when they see me crafting, for instance, or wants to know where I got a piece of gear from.