If you go to System Menu -> Support Desk -> Frequently Asked Questions (near the bottom of the first page) -> Reporting RMT Advertisements -> Ask a Question, then copy and paste the chat log with time stamp and mention the world name, SE will get back to you quite quickly saying you can un-black list that person now, indicating that that character has already been dealt with. Yes, it takes a few seconds to navigate through that menu, to copy the message and to state the world name but if it stops that character from bugging 200 other people every 2 minutes, that seems like a good thing.

Of course, it would be better to have an auto reporting feature but a lot of people don't even use the tools we already have. It's easier to complain for 10 minutes than to take those few seconds to report them.

"But they'll just replace that character straight away!" Yes, they probably will. But it will be a hassle, it will use up another account (of which they probably have thousands, I know), it will take a minute (that they would otherwise spend pestering other people) and it will chip away at them and their business ever so slightly.

"That's like trying to chip away at a mountain with a toothpick!" I know, it seems pointless to do it alone, but imagine if everyone did it? Imagine a game in which every person who recieved an RMT /tell or saw an RMT shout reported it instead of just blacklisting them and moving on? Imagine if everyone took responsibility for the sort of game world they wanted to play in? Suddenly these shouts and tells would become the capital offences they always should have been, instead of just being ignored and hoping they'd bug someone else instead. We COULD move that mountain ourselves, with our own efforts.

We could be the change we wanted to see. We SHOULD be the change we want to see.

We have the tools, we obviously have the passion (it's easier and faster than these honestly pointless whinging posts about things not changing when we don't try to change them), it doesn't require filling out a long form (about what zone we're in and what character we're on, etc) like we used to have to.

Empty your black lists and then tackle each RMT and remove them again once they're gone. If you're unlucky, you may have reason to keep 5 real jerks on there but no one should be at the 200 full mark if they report correctly. I've been doing this for a while and every night I have an empty list again, just as it should be.

But not many seem interested in helping. The common advice both in game and on forums is "black list them and ignore them, there's nothing we can do." Bull. That's laziness and making people feel weak and ineffectual instead of teaching them how to fight for what they want. It's the mindset that allows so many RMT'ers to go unreported. "Someone else will probably report them." Where do people come up with these things..?

Fight and get everyone else to fight too and this game will become more trouble than it's worth!

I know I've converted at least one person in my FC to help in the reporting efforts today. I'll keep preaching the value of changing things rather than ignoring them. Maybe it'll just be 10 of us with our tooth picks and that big mountain but it'll be a start. Maybe others will see us, will listen to us, will join us. What do we have to lose?

Long journeys and first steps and all that jazz. It's important.