Its a BUSY day today but fun with Macro's... the RMT fight back

[SamAkemi]

I was always under the impression that RMT spammers are bots (programmed computers, with no one at the keyboard), so I think point 2 and 3 are somewhat pointless... the computer won't mind the "huge mess on their screen", nor will its feelings be broken by being spammed with stuff the moment they spawn (whereas a new player will be offended, and sometimes you can't tell an RMT from a genuine new player, so be careful). The idea to all go to /busy is good, but I wouldn't go so far as to pointing at non-busy people as RMT buyers. I don't buy gil and I do never go on Busy status, because I talk via tells with friends a lot (and I guess I have a high level of tolerance/lazyness, as I don't even bother blacklisting RMTs when I receive their tells. I just kind of ignore them). I'd hate to be branded as a gil buyer just for that.

Some of them may well be bots, but what do we think happens when for example, they send a friend request... there has to be someone there to follow up on it right? And then there is... those letters at the end of the tell, they identify the RMT agent for commission, thats how they get paid.. so... unattended? I think not. Friend requests and I.D. of the tell for commission = people, yeah they might be scripting the macros out, but there is someone paying attention.

Thing is too Bluevann, with tells with friends, Im absolutely sure that you will have encountered being in the middle of a response to someone and an RMT comes in, I know that some people do it differently, but im always /r to my friend, and how many times that reply has gone to the RMT instead of my friend... you betcha its worth it, and nobody said you would be branded a gil buyer, its just the power of suggestion that you might be if you dont. Ignoring them is not an option.

[Bluevann]

And then there is... those letters at the end of the tell, they identify the RMT agent for commission, thats how they get paid.. so... unattended? I think not.

How do you know this? I thought the last letters are used to make each tell different (they change them every time they send a tell, I've noticed receiving multiple tells from the same RMT, the final letters were always different), so to circumvent the spam filter (since, changing the last letters, the tell they send is different from the one they previously sent, therefore, not recognized as spam). I have no idea where you got this information about "identifying agents".