Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Saseal]

Tbh over the past week I've been getting less and less spam, there was a non stop friend request over and over again by bots but now it's nearly gone. Same for shouts and tells. Something must be getting done cause I can see the difference

I thought something similar a long time ago, when the RMT-related forum posts were newer to be seen. It was randomly good for two or so days and I thought "omg yay, they must have done something, after hearing our pleas! ". Yeah..... no....
It returned in full force afterwards.
This is why I say banning isn't enough. The wound isn't closed - it's still gushing RMT. Just took a few days for banned bots to be re-made.

[Zabuza]

And with that, the 200 marker has been reached.

[Hiruke]

I get a tell every 5-10 minutes, any hour of the day, if I don't have Busy up. It's pretty legit. Thanks, SE!

[Voartey]

/signed Voarty Fluffy Adamantoise

[Zabuza]

I will admit I was pleasantly surprised today. Instead of being spammed once every minute I was only spammed once every 15 minutes. Two of the sites that spammed me constantly - I didn't see any /tells from them at all today. Has anyone else experienced a noticeable decrease in the /tell spam? Or was I just lucky?

[Morbid]

Lucky...

There is one site that appears in about every other /tell I get. The TLPCEO one or whatever the twelve it is. I started making sure to block every bot from them since it's the most plagued of the spambots at least 10 different spambots for this one site.

It slowed things down a little... very very little and I'm still hovering at 195 blacklist just trying to weed out the serious offenders. I've submitted to leaving the once every 30 min spam off the list but the TLP site just gives no fucks with the amount of bots it has at its disposal.

[Adire]

I will admit I was pleasantly surprised today. Instead of being spammed once every minute I was only spammed once every 15 minutes. Two of the sites that spammed me constantly - I didn't see any /tells from them at all today. Has anyone else experienced a noticeable decrease in the /tell spam? Or was I just lucky?

Got 3 last night on Balmung. Not the worst night I've had lately, but not the best either. On the best nights, I get one at most. Might not be a good sample though given how few I get at all.

[Zabuza]

Lucky...

There is one site that appears in about every other /tell I get. The TLPCEO one or whatever the twelve it is. I started making sure to block every bot from them since it's the most plagued of the spambots at least 10 different spambots for this one site.

It slowed things down a little... very very little and I'm still hovering at 195 blacklist just trying to weed out the serious offenders. I've submitted to leaving the once every 30 min spam off the list but the TLP site just gives no fucks with the amount of bots it has at its disposal.

I'd prefer not to name exact sites or whatever as I'm trying to be very careful with what I post. Let's just say...I got so used to hearing "come on, my friend" and "nobody's perfect, let's make things better." The two sites who sent me those messages would just spam me nonstop, but they were both absent for me today.

Got 3 last night on Balmung. Not the worst night I've had lately, but not the best either. On the best nights, I get one at most. Might not be a good sample though given how few I get at all.

I wish it was like that here

[Ametrine]

Have you seen MMOGAH's new ads? They not only pop up in fansite banners, but they run a very active Tumblr blog. They like to drop news updates in the tags with advertisements for their gil, but today they just went all out with this:







Screencapped straight from my on Tumblr blog, since I don't want to link it directly to their own blog and risk anyone at getting a virus. I reblogged/liked it to archive it, (link to THAT post here) and the video included is actually pretty professionally made but full of hilarious bot comments.

But the whole thing makes one point very clear. There is no fear from the sellers of gil nor players purchasing gil that it will jeopardize their account since SE doesn't care enough to stop it.

"Buying gil is perfectly safe! No worries! We're happy to sell it to you, and if we all keep it on the down low, nothing bad will happen to us or you! Have fun!"

._.

[Vchipp]

That last part make me think SE should up the gil drop, yeah that'll go over well...

PS. being the internet I anticipate people's vastly different opinions hence the last part of my comment, I still think gil should increase to combat buyers/sellers