Why can't we have the same anti-spam feature that WoW has?

[Sacred-Oblivion]

Years ago in my WoW days I use to get a lot of RMT spam too. Then in one patch a system was implemented where after receiving spam you follow these steps:

1) Right-click their name and select "Report Spam"
2) ???
3) Profit.

That's it. The report spam feature delivered all the information the GMs needed to investigate the matter. And if at least 5 people reported someone for spam, then that person was prevented from using the chat stream on every character until an investigation happened.

This system worked. The number of RMT spam I received afterwards went to almost 0% -- It didn't eliminate them entirely but the difference in frequency was huge. So I'm seriously asking, why can't we have a feature like this?

[WHS]

OMG I so wish they would implement that feature here. Today of all days seems to be RMT hell for spams. Must have cleaned house and starting attacks in full force.

[Moheeheeko]

most times these days whenever I go to block gil spam I get the message "a player with this name does not exist"


I also clean out my blacklist every 2 days or so, and I never see repeat names spamming again. Whatever they are doing, its working.

[Cap75]

I've said the same for months now. On Behemoth it seemed to slow down a bit a few weeks ago but the last few days have been absurd. There's an RMT spam every few minutes. To the point where I'm missing LS messages because they're getting bumped out of the chat window so fast.

[Luxx]

They also need to, when you block someone, they remove the messages too...i still have to scroll up and find even after blocking
and i have to have my chat box a bit small.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

most times these days whenever I go to block gil spam I get the message "a player with this name does not exist"


I also clean out my blacklist every 2 days or so, and I never see repeat names spamming again. Whatever they are doing, its working.

When you do get that "player with this name does not exist" message it's because they've finished advertising on that character and have deleted it. So in other words, by not blocking them right away you've just enabled them to accomplish what they wanted to do.

Receiving spam every 20-30 mins is indicating of a broken system. This is not something we should have to tolerate in an MMO in the same way we have to tolerate other unsavory people.

[SeekerScorpio]

They also made it where they were it was required to be level 10 on their character to whisper.

[Moheeheeko]

Receiving spam every 20-30 mins is indicating of a broken system. This is not something we should have to tolerate in an MMO in the same way we have to tolerate other unsavory people.

I was online most of the night yesterday and got maybe 1 tell. And last I checked they dont spam in /shout at all anymore.

They are working on it. Fighting RMT spam is a neverending battle, heck wow has been around for nearly a decade and they still have RMT spam.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

They also made it where they were it was required to be level 10 on their character to whisper.

I know that this statement is false for during the time I played. I can't say if WoW has this implemented now, but if it does then they did it for another reason because stopping low lvl chars from whispering wasn't necessary to stop RMT spam during the time I played.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

I was online most of the night yesterday and got maybe 1 tell. And last I checked they dont spam in /shout at all anymore.

They are working on it. Fighting RMT spam is a neverending battle, heck wow has been around for nearly a decade and they still have RMT spam.

I'm getting tells every 20-30 minutes. Sometimes less or more frequent than that. And WoW does not have the RMT spam problem that FF14 has. On WoW I'd get spammed maybe once a month, and then when you compare that to how often we get spammed on here... Why would you be content with the way things are?

There is a practical solution to this problem. It's not just a never-ending nuisance that we have to put up with.