I no longer wish to receive tells from anyone under level 10.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

for starters SE can't punish an account for simply being AFK 24+ hours. it doesn't matter how long they AFK for. it don't matter how suspicious it looks. SE can't punish someone for being AFK.


and i am not sure about their policy for proxies. i would imagine they are allowed.




all a level or time restriction will do is delay the inevitable. and just leaving it at one time or level restriction most certainly won't delay their efforts for too long. SE would have to start out small and constantly make the counter-measures larger and larger. which will force the sellers to constantly change their scripts. which slows them down. but eventually SE won't be able to push the counter-measures any further. and we will right back where it all started.



basically these type of counter-measure will only be considered short-term. they will never last. and to boot they will eventually cause a huge restriction to the social community in-game. which will cause many and many players to leave.








it has also already been suggested to allow players to take themselves out of the results in the Player Finder. though SE has stated they don't want to do this. they don't want people removing themselves from any of the social aspects a MMORPG can offer.

[TheSmoo]

*see above*

You have no idea what you are talking about. I NEVER SAID anything about punishing for AFK. If a BRAND NEW CHARACTER is AFK for their first 24 hours when that is the PRECISE behavior that would be needed to beat anti-spam countermeasures, that would be SUSPICIOUS. Simply a red flag the GMs could look at. If a single IP, or credit card is running a bunch of accounts that do this, they're probably spammers. And once the first couple characters start spamming, the GM could just blanket ban everything.

None of this can one-shot spammers. Pretty much NOTHING can do that. It would simply contribute into HOPEFULLY making spammer activity more trouble to carry out than it pays off.

And none of it would be permanent. A new character would hit the level/time marks, and just keep playing, with tell restrictions gone. How many new people open up player finder, and start mass-telling all the lvl 50s? Heck, how many players PERIOD spam-tell the player finder results?