Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Risvertasashi]

Let's legalize drugs and weapons too, then, because clearly the market for those can't be perfectly controlled either.

Funnily enough, several states legalizing marijuana has cut into cartel's "business" quite a bit.

Of course, matters are more complex than just legalize vs don't legalize in both cases. But there are tons of RMT threads burgeoning with ideas, yet all we get from SE is radio silence.

[KisaiTenshi]

Funnily enough, several states legalizing marijuana has cut into cartel's "business" quite a bit.

Of course, matters are more complex than just legalize vs don't legalize in both cases. But there are tons of RMT threads burgeoning with ideas, yet all we get from SE is radio silence.

Well of course.

You never tell the fraudsters how to defeat your countermeasures. Free free to let the people speculate though.

When I worked for *likeIwouldtellYou*, the fraudsters would regularly call/email in and ask what they did wrong, and "good natured" representatives would tell them vaguely that they broke the ToS, and suggest a hint... and you know what happens? Every fraudster on the site would then use that hint, and we have to start over again.

So SE telling us anything would just result in them having to start over again. Short of clarifying a policy you will never, ever, see, you will never have SE tell you anything about how they are combatting RMT short of some extremely tiny numbers. There are no less than 6 different RMT sites advertising their services, and since there are 64 servers. Use the numbers to do the math:

Time Period: Apr. 2, 2015 to Apr. 8, 2015
- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT advertising: 912 = 2 per server per day
- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT/illicit activity: 9,617 = 21 per server per day
- Action Details: Permanent ban from FINAL FANTASY XIV

- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for participation in RMT/illegal activity: 71 = 1 per server per week
- Action Details: Temporary ban from FINAL FANTASY XIV

Those numbers don't include just outright cheaters. That they likely warned, the cheaters promised to not do it again, and then the cheaters just went right back to what they were doing.