The FFXIV team has been terrible at addressing the RMT/bot scene. Those "actions taken against RMT" monthly notices will never mean squat when we still encounter spammers every second of every hour near the market boards.

It took them three years to implement a simple RMT reporting sub-menu, but without going the distance of being able to resolve them right away.

What happens after a bot is reported? We get a message about how we won't get a f'in reply. Then we are left with three choices: continue to get hit with the same spam forever, blacklist the bot, or go somewhere else.

When a bot is reported, the bot should be placed in a temp blist until the SE Police does something, and then be auto-removed from said list when the account is banned.