Abusing the Trade feature to interrupt, etc

[Marael]

Lighten up and/or blacklist them.

Sure, it's annoying, but it's really a bit much to want them banned for it.

Aha hahaha... ha...

Yeah... I can't tell you how many times I've been minding my own business, gathering materials I needed for leveling up crafts or for making my next set of gear on whatever job I was leveling at the time, and some self-important jerk walks up and, without a word, starts spamming me with trades to prevent me from gathering. I don't know where the "every single gatherer you see is a bot and must be stopped" mentality came from, but it sure got old fast for us legitimate people. I mean, seriously, is it so much to ask that you either mind your own business, or, you know, TRY TALKING TO THE PERSON BEFORE SPAMMING THEM WITH TRADES!?!?!? I report anyone I don't know who trades me even once these days because of it on general principle. I can't tell you how sick of it I am, and I do, indeed, hope that each and every one of them is banned. Maybe I'm being a dick about it, sure, but after a year of people spamming me with trades for no real reason that I can see except to stroke their own ego, and make themselves feel important, that's the place I'm at now. Those who came before made those who do it now completely intolerable to me. You try talking to people, you try being nice, and it still just keeps happening. How long is your patience? Because I am completely beyond the end of mine. Once or twice, okay, ignore it. HUNDREDS OF TIMES from HUNDREDS OF INDIVIDUALS, no, this is a serious problem that is not going to stop by ignoring it or doing what I can to take care of it myself. If it is going to stop, a higher authority must be involved. I completely filled up my blacklist, not with people who spam me for RMT purposes, but with people who spammed me with trades because they saw me gathering and every gatherer MUST be a bot. I shouldn't have to /busy every time I need a few materials. I shouldn't see this level of harassment from SO MANY different individuals because I want to craft every once in a while. And no, I am not exaggerating in the least. Literally hundreds of people have done this to me over the past year since this game launched. I don't care if it's their first time ever doing it, or if they legitimately want to hand something to me, if they're not on my friend list, they are reported, period. I've gotten to the point where I just don't even care what their reasons are. I don't want to talk to them. I don't want to be near them. I don't want them on the game at all. I'm that sick of it. This isn't just a, oh I thought that one guy was annoying, sort of thing. This is a, OMFG why do hundreds of people keep freaking doing this to me, sort of thing. There comes a point for everyone where you've had all you can take, and you can't take anymore. I hit that point about eight months ago... and it STILL keeps happening. You go ahead and keep trivializing other people's problems, and we'll keep reporting the people we see as deserving of it. Sorry if I come off as something of an A-hole here, but seriously, this is the thing I hate the absolute most in this game, and you come along arguing fiercely that eh, it's not all that bad, get over it and stop being such an oversensitive whiner. I've been traded during alexandrite maps. I've been traded during Guildleves. I've been traded during hunts. But mostly, I get traded while gathering. This isn't a problem that is just going to get better if I keep doing my own thing about it. This is a problem that is persistent, and keeps happening no matter what I do about it.