RMT Menu Option

[sew]

This could be so much simpler.

1. The option would be called "Report Spam", put right under the "Add to Blacklist" function.
2. Clicking it would put the player on a temporary blacklist that only exists until you logout - so you never have to worry about it filling up.
3. In addition, it would file a report so that the RMT spammers can finally be banned - only like 5 out of 200 spammers on my blacklist are "(deleted)", which makes it look like SE doesn't do a thing.

In addition: I get the same two sites spammed all the time. How hard can it be to just go through the chat text, replace "0" with "o", "|-|" with "h", "," with ".", remove the spaces, and then match against the spammed domain names? That's 10-15 lines of code - in C.

If SE did that, this game would have so much less spam - right now I'm getting more spam than any other game I've seen - and even more spam than I find in my emails.

[Spart]

In addition: I get the same two sites spammed all the time. How hard can it be to just go through the chat text, replace "0" with "o", "|-|" with "h", "," with ".", remove the spaces, and then match against the spammed domain names? That's 10-15 lines of code - in C.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, just a cynical person that understands (but has no appreciation for) corporate greed. I personally feel that SE doesn't correct this simply correctable problem, because they are one of the sellers themselves...if not all of them

[Aidalyn]

I certainly can't make any excuses for S-E. I've been playing various MMOs over the last 18 years, and this game is by far the most overrun by RMT spammers. (Not to say no other MMOs have it any worse--some might, but I just haven't played them.)

Sadly, manually reporting spammers is a regularly recurring part of my gaming experience--so much that I'm beginning to feel there should be an achievement chain for it. The bottom line is that S-E hasn't prioritized getting any better at this. There are lots of ways to streamline the RMT reporting and mitigate the spam effect, but the most S-E has been able to muster after months of updates is an option to delete your tell history (which reportedly doesn't even work).

The fact that I'm playing this game is a testament to the quality of the remaining content. But the RMT stink is the single biggest thing keeping me from recommending it to friends.