Quote Originally Posted by Coltvoyance View Post
As a suggestion, why not move the bar on when /tells are ALLOWED to be SENT? Many MMO's bar new characters from sending /tells until a certain level. For FFXIV, I suggest level 10, or even 15 before a character is allowed to send a /tell. The amount of extra work this will put on RMT's will hinder them significantly and limit real players minimally.
It might be a minimal hindrance to a lot of players, even most of them probably, but some players join with friends and contacting those friends is one of the first things they want to do. Say and Shout aren't available for that if they're in different cities. So for the first 15 levels until they can meet up, Tell is the main way to communicate with each other.

I think there have been plenty of other suggestions on ways to stop the spam that won't impact real players. (A proper reporting feature, filtering messages with spam text, mandatory delays between /tell messages, etc.) Those still allow /tell to be used as intended by real players without impact. Until all those type of solutions have been implemented, I don't think SE should branch out into solutions that negatively affect real players as well.