Y'know, just a thought from today... I opened up the Party Finder fairly often. Also spent most of my day in Mor Dhona. And now, at the end of the day, I don't think I can differentiate between RMTs and sell groups.

RMTs send friend requests now, for the most part (though just today I actually received a /tell from one, with lots of hearts, it was almost nice), but I do remember when they were shouting. And then sending /tells one after the other.

Sell groups shout periodically, several of them, just like RMTs: the same text always, from each group, obviously on a macro. And in addition, PF is full of them: all I see is "pony farm", "selling /whatever/", "pony farm", "looking for T/whichever/", "selling /whatever/", "pony farm", "selling /whatever/", "looking for T/whichever/"...

Are they any different? Well, their methods are, somewhat, since one is illegal and the other isn't. But other than that... no. Not really. It's all advertising. It's spam. It's clutter. It's annoying. Anywhere else on the internet, you use tools to clear them, to get rid of them. Here? They roam free.

I'm still not saying they're the biggest issue actually hurting the community (not even only endgame, either). But they sure as hell don't help create a pleasant atmosphere: I'm feeling like I was in a mall all day. Or browsing the worse parts of the internet in some obscure, old browser.