How to eliminate Real money gil sale spammers

[MurakumoMillennium]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

[Shirai]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

Eh, they're being banned fast enough.
It's pretty rare to get two or even three tells from the same char before it is banned.

Yes, they are annoying. No, we can't stop them, stop thinking we can.

[MurakumoMillennium]

No, we can't stop them, stop thinking we can.

No, RMT characters that advertise through tells can most definitely be stopped. This are easy for do.

[Issachar]

RMT activities never bothered me. The spamming is annoying though.

[lukesneeringer]

Eh, they're being banned fast enough.
It's pretty rare to get two or even three tells from the same char before it is banned.

Yes, they are annoying. No, we can't stop them, stop thinking we can.

I don't share the frustration levels of others over the spam tells, but I do agree that there are algorithms that would solve the issue.

A sampling of thoughts:

(1) Make it so that once a character is blacklisted X times over the course of an hour, that character is either auto-banned or globally muted.
(2) Make it so that no more than 1 /tell can be sent per, say, 0.5-1 second. Possibly allow a small number of "freebies" that return at the rate of one an hour, to make it such that in the rare cases where players do send tells in quick succession, it's allowed.

Now, that may or may not be the best use of finite subscription fees. But it is possible.

[Kuroyasha]

Eh, they're being banned fast enough.
It's pretty rare to get two or even three tells from the same char before it is banned.

Yes, they are annoying. No, we can't stop them, stop thinking we can.

I dont know where this rarity is, but it's not on Mateus. Over the past two periods where SE has notified of actions taken against RMT, I've seen maybe 5 out of 200 on my blacklist deleted. Every day i get tells from multiple chars with Rmt spam. I have to remove char to add char to blacklist. If I don't they spam me non-stop. One spammed me 4 times within 60 seconds I kid you not. It's like Mateus gets ignored for the most part.

i'd thought i'd point out that a SE does not delete characters and after chatting with a gm they said most deleted characters are done by the account holder and also after you blist and report someone for being a RMT that the next day you can remove them

Edit: Oh? So wait we never actually know if they've been removed then? I think at least there should be something like (removed) or (bannedRMT) in place of the name in the same vein as (deleted) is seen sometimes. This way we know on this side that they are banned and feel more encouraged to report people who RMT spam.

2nd Edit: On a side note, it's pretty annoying trying to include the RMT message on ps3 when we want to report. Can we have an option to Copy/Paste a message by selecting the name next to message in the same way we can select "Add to Blacklist?" Would make things much smoother.

[Vladislav]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

This is fantastic idea for real lol

[Tanama]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

[DragonFlyy]

• Create bait character(s).
• Bait character(s) receive RMT tell.
• Ban RMT account.

It really are no hard for find and stop RMT that advertise through tells...

So a randomly stolen account is banned. They just grab the next one. Won't slow them down one bit. Doesn't even get the money they have out of circulation since the advertise on accounts that don't actually hold the Gil.