Anyone else lose their Report RMT button?

[OliviaJ]

Is that right? It does't make much sense. A message in the /say channel is still a message. So long as you're reporting a message that the RMT bot itself had sent, it shouldn't matter whether it sent that message through /say, /shout, /tell, or any other channel.

The thing you can't do is use this feature to report characters whom you suspect might be farming bots. For that, you'd have to fill out a report saying why you'd suspect them. (Spam is a lot more straightforward. You can click directly on the message that violates the ToS, so that message, and therefore the violation, can be a automatically incorporated into the report.)

I don't know if that is how it is or not. Maybe I read the posts above and misunderstood it to only be /tell

[Reptiletc]

While on this topic, I wonder why the report screen doesn't auto-populate ANY information. You have to manually punch in every detail from your server, device, location, ect. just to MAYBE get them punished for breaking rules. Honestly I feel like I'm the one being punished when I do this, so I stopped bothering.

Seriously, it's not even a slightly difficult thing to do. It's a minor fetch and fill script, they simply just don't feel like making it for some reason.

[Zeno_McDohl]

While on this topic, I wonder why the report screen doesn't auto-populate ANY information. You have to manually punch in every detail from your server, device, location, ect. just to MAYBE get them punished for breaking rules. Honestly I feel like I'm the one being punished when I do this, so I stopped bothering.

Seriously, it's not even a slightly difficult thing to do. It's a minor fetch and fill script, they simply just don't feel like making it for some reason.

My guess: They reworked their GM backend, which is why this option took so long to get implemented. This is probably some counter based system where it increments by one.

[Zeno_McDohl]

This happened again to me. It came back eventually, last night it went away. I had 20 RMT messages overnight and no more Report RMT button.

[Ametrine]

It's possible that they have a queue of reports to file through on their end, and when they hit a certain threshold of them, it cuts it off from receiving new ones until they sort them out.

[OliviaJ]

Haven't had mine go away yet but can't say I've used it two dozen times in one gaming session. Probably a dozen at most. I'll say this, it seems to be working decently. The quantity has decreased noticeably.

[Nerisu]

Mine disappeared yesterday too. It might be just a coincidence but I just restarted the game and it was back.

[luckystrikes]

I have seen a positive impact on the amount of RMT activity on Lamia. I had one negative experience of reporting multiple times on a RMT advertiser with no effect but it was at odd hours also so it didnt get me too riled up.

[Knahli]

Balmung hasn't had chat spammers in an extremely long time, but every few months or so you'll see a hoard of farming bots doing their thing - as is the case right now. Sadly, there's no quick way of reporting them even though it's obvious as hell what they are.

[Niwashi]

I haven't had the Report button disappear like that, and I've used it quite a few times, though I don't think I ever saw 20 in one session. If it were a timed limit (only X number can be sent in a given period of time), I'd expect an error message to appear rather than the report button itself to disappear.

I have seen a marked decrease in the amount of spam since this feature went live.

It would be nice, though, if it automatically added the characters you report to your blacklist rather than making reporting and blacklisting them two separate actions. (Of course, blacklisting would have to remain a separate option for cases where you want to BL people for reasons other than spam, but I can't imagine the other way around, of reporting someone and not also wanting them blacklisted.)