Fighting RMT: Give ME (the players) the option to disable TELL

[AttacKat]

We have suggested making TELL level granted ability, SE refused because they say that disables players ability to communicate.

Here I am going to make another suggestion: GIVE ME, the player, the ability to determine if I want to receive TELL from unknown players.

We all know the issues, and we all know how the RMT have their work around and SE IS NOT winning. With every RMT status report, we are seeming the around the same amount of accounts being banned report after report, and we are seeing the same websites tell spamming the players.

SE banned the words, they use UNICODE chars. They make avatars and delete in within minutes of spamming. SE ban their accounts, the make new ones. Fact is, whatever method SE has came up with, RMTs finds workaround.

Seriously SE, TELL spamming is the only method these RMTs have to get to your players, it is time you guys implement a solution to counter it.

jc

[Jinko]

That's not fighting RMT and its counter-intuitive to disable tells IMO.

[Adol]

Setting /busy stops all incoming tells. Not exactly a solution to stopping RMT itself but at least you won't get any tells anymore.

[AttacKat]

There are currently in game work around, but they are just that. I myself de-selected tell in my general chat so I do not see them in the general chat. I have another chat window set up to view different forms of communication.

Players needs to teleport, and SE charges for that and makes it hard for players to play the game. Players DO NOT need tell, but SE allows RMTs to abuse the system. Heck, I won't even mind even if SE wants to charges 10 gils per tell or something.

The work arounds aren't real solutions, SE needs to implement an in-game solution.

jc

[JemC]

Ummm, you guys do know you can uncheck /tell in your options, right? I unchecked it long ago. I have Link Shells with peeps or FC if I need to talk and if I'm talking to a stranger I just pop tell back on real quick and pop it off when done. For chat options click the bolt looking wheel next to the chat box.

[Dijana]

I want to ask, who actually looks at a tell and thinks 'why yes, that sounds like a capital idea, I shall consider giving you my money for this virtual goods you are providing'

If you're going to block tells, you're already the sort of person that doesn't want to buy gil. It isn't fighting them in any way. The way to fight them is to just report them and move on. They do it because there are people out there who are buying gil, and it's profitable for them. Yes they will keep finding workarounds, but if people weren't buying in the first place it wouldn't be such a huge invasive deal. I'm pretty sure if someone wants to buy gil anyway, they could just go to google, rather than waiting for the random tells

[Noshpan]

I want to ask, who actually looks at a tell and thinks 'why yes, that sounds like a capital idea, I shall consider giving you my money for this virtual goods you are providing'

If you're going to block tells, you're already the sort of person that doesn't want to buy gil. It isn't fighting them in any way. The way to fight them is to just report them and move on. They do it because there are people out there who are buying gil, and it's profitable for them. Yes they will keep finding workarounds, but if people weren't buying in the first place it wouldn't be such a huge invasive deal. I'm pretty sure if someone wants to buy gil anyway, they could just go to google, rather than waiting for the random tells

Until there is a day that there is no one buying gil, I'll settle for an easier way to report RMT spam. We are one step closer, they've made it easier to add them to our blacklists but it still takes a couple of minutes for me to report them.