Abuse of the TOS. Loophole regarding griefing/trolling. Needs a solution.

[Seryne]

I feel you, OP. I have a dude that lives next door to me in game that follows me around everywhere being generally annoying, even recruiting people from his FC to do so alongside him because he's that mature of an individual. This started last year and I reported him for it multiple times but am hit with the "Just blacklist him." from the GMs even though I have. Would be cool if blacklisting people made them invisible for you so I don't have to see him anymore but I doubt they'll ever do something like this.

[GothicDolly]

I feel you, OP. I have a dude that lives next door to me in game that follows me around everywhere being generally annoying, even recruiting people from his FC to do so alongside him because he's that mature of an individual. This started last year and I reported him for it multiple times but am hit with the "Just blacklist him." from the GMs even though I have. Would be cool if blacklisting people made them invisible for you so I don't have to see him anymore but I doubt they'll ever do something like this.

Agreed. I personally feel like revamping the blacklist feature to this degree would solve so many problems. Not even just for me but the entire FFXIV community. You know that saying "out of sight out of mind"? In my opinion, that saying holds a lot of merit. It's not an unheard of feature, Second Life comes to mind--where you can make players you blacklist invisible. Both sides would be happy with such a feature implemented on FFXIV. The trolls don't get reported, and the roleplayers don't have to see the trolls. Heck, the trolls could continue to be right in my character's face--I wouldn't care. Because I wouldn't be able to see them. Then my writing buddy(s) could do the same and we can continue undisturbed.

The question is if FFXIV as a game could make this already established feature...work in its engine? I plan to make a thread suggesting its implementation--at some point. If done right? It could only improve the game for everyone. The most difficult part would just be getting this idea to the higher ups. And again, this isn't some indie game where the devs are all huddled up in a Discord. So for all I know--my attempts will be fruitless. But I will try.