Why not defeat RMT the quick way?

[Astralos]

I don't think the Task Force is doing a good job, to be honest. And not all offenders are met with permanent bans, despite what is being mentioned. I've been reporting names of characters who have been sending me /tells with RMT advertising since the beginning and the vast majority of them have not been "(Deleted)". I've already filled up my blacklist once, decided to empty all the names, and started blacklisting names again - and I'm seeing a lot of the same names.

[DarkJack]

damn 1000 character limit

If they're smart they could even do what Wikipedia did to counter malicious edits: use an AI that monitors activity and picks out "suspicious" activity, often taking automatic action (in Wikipedia's case this is reverting edits). When using neural networks they can learn and adapt themselves even when the malicious players themselves adapt.

The advantage of using AI for "first line filtering" is that you don't have to spend money on "expensive" people to handle all the work. The AI does most of it himself and passes the things which it cannot safely identify on to humans (to minimise false positives), which identify it and take action, and that identification itself serves as input for the neural network again.

[Lucke]

I don't think the Task Force is doing a good job, to be honest. And not all offenders are met with permanent bans, despite what is being mentioned. I've been reporting names of characters who have been sending me /tells with RMT advertising since the beginning and the vast majority of them have not been "(Deleted)". I've already filled up my blacklist once, decided to empty all the names, and started blacklisting names again - and I'm seeing a lot of the same names.

Again, [Deleted] will only show up the RMT deleted their own character. If they are banned, their name will still be on your Blacklist. SE does this in case the account is hacked. Then the original owner can get their character back. SE does not delete characters, just bans them.