I think this would help increase the quality of novice network as mentors would use it less as a sort of personal chat room. I also remember having fun goofing around in a general in WoW and that was fun, also I don't remember too many RMT (honestly they came as whispers more often for me lol).

Quote Originally Posted by Mihana View Post
If you meet the requirements for Mentor status you can rejoin the Novice Network. But as for a server-wide general chat channel that anyone could join I'm kind of against that... It would be abused by RMT botters to spam their messages. I'm not sure if the Novice Network suffers from this as I generally don't use it.
I think just making it optional is well enough. Not that it would stop RMT but that "we can't have nice things because people would ruin it" is not my favorite thing to prevent nice things... I get that it would be annoying if you couldn't turn it off.. hence optional. People who use the general chat would report the RMT and perhaps if SE wants help train an RMT catching bot lol.

In this way if you don't want to be bothered you're not, but you're also not preventing features for others.