Afraid of RMTs need to end.

[Doki]

Reporting spammers with name, world, and copy & pasted the exact message they sent me via tell (including time stamp) and I have only seen a single blacklist entry change to (deleted) out of like 30+ names.

[whoopeeragon]

Reporting spammers with name, world, and copy & pasted the exact message they sent me via tell (including time stamp) and I have only seen a single blacklist entry change to (deleted) out of like 30+ names.

When they suspend accounts, they don't 'delete' the names so they can keep track of them. Read the following posts:

Hello, all! This is LGM Enkrateia here. I had posted this in another thread; however, the information does seem relevant.

As time goes on, we are getting more and more RMT reports including the information that the blacklist is already full of RMT, so more cannot be added. Some reports that include a bit more information note that only prior entries that have changed to "Deleted" are being removed to make room for new entries.

I wanted to provide a bit of information and insight to address these concerns, which will hopefully help keep you from filling up your blacklist with RMT names that are never removed.

Once an account is found guilty of RMT solicitation, it is suspended indefinitely. However, the characters on that account are not deleted, since the suspension of the account is sufficient to prevent further solicitation from the account. Deleting the characters is an additional step that is not taken, since it is unnecessary, time consuming, and could result in account damage or loss in the case of a suspension that needs to be lifted, such as in the case of a compromised account used for RMT solicitation.

The blacklist is recommended as a temporary resolution to alleviate the unwanted solicitation, and is not meant to be a permanent state you place these names into. Removing the names periodically should allow us time to complete our investigation, and free up room in your blacklist if another account is used to solicit RMT.

Lead Game Master Enkrateia

Thank you for the response, kidvideo. Hopefully, I can provide some explanation that may help by discussing three countermeasures.

The blacklist is a character-focused resolution, preventing messages and other interactions from that character. Advertisements from another character would require an additional blacklist entry to prevent, and possibly additional reports to the Game Masters, so that we can investigate additional accounts that may be engaging in RMT solicitation.

Suspension, when issued by a Game Master, is an action against a single account. This should remove that account from continued RMT solicitation; however, if a single group is using multiple accounts for RMT solicitation, additional reports would help us find those accounts and issue actions against them for RMT solicitation. Game Master countermeasures against RMT solicitation accounts tend to be more noticeable, since they are reactive in nature. To specifically address your reply, a suspension prevents the account in question from continuing their solicitations, and is a sufficient method of doing so.

Finally, the Special Task Force and Account Admin review these account actions to determine if an account should be terminated and work towards preventing future RMT solicitation. These countermeasures do not tend to be noticed because they are proactive and preventative, mitigating future RMT issues. Relating this to your reply, we are constantly working on improving the speed of resolution and effectiveness of actions against RMT behaviour, so that the experience of our customers is as positive as possible.

There have been many strict or severe suggestions made to prevent all RMT solicitation in the game. These ideas, however, need to be implemented while balancing game mechanics with trying to eliminate this type of harassment, and requires constant work, since changing tactics and methods mean coming up with different countermeasures. These solicitation concerns comprise a lot of the tickets we get from customers, and we treat them seriously since they are the most common concern reported to us.

I hope this provides a bit more insight for you.

Lead Game Master Enkrateia

[kidvideo]

Reporting spammers with name, world, and copy & pasted the exact message they sent me via tell (including time stamp) and I have only seen a single blacklist entry change to (deleted) out of like 30+ names.

It's incredibly difficult to report on a PS3. There's no copy & paste, & the process is too cumbersome with a controller. We need a “right-click to report” option.