An Easier way to report Gil Sellers/RMT!?

[Twivana]

So yeah ummm I might sound a lil dumb cuz I figured this out and ppl PROBABLY already know about this....

ANYYYWAYYYS

So there is a way to report someone's profile on the lodestone. What I have been doing is going to my blacklist (yes you can view your blacklist) and reporting them that way. There is a lil knight looking guy on everyones profile that you can use to report. To get to your blacklist you just go to your friends feed and you should see a tab that says Blacklist. I kinda feel bad for blowing up the mods on the site but this is so much easier to report than in the game.

Am I wrong for reporting the gil sellers/rmt this way? Seems so much easier to me. :/

[SekhmetM]

Learn Japanese.
Save money to travel to Japan.
Purchase laptop.
Purchase super glue.
Rent a hotel room with complete kitchen.
Bake a pie in said kitchen.
Purchase Fancy Wine.
Experience japanese bidet.
Travel to Square Enix headquarters.
Setup appointment with CEO.
Sit on his desk in sultry manner, kiss him on his comb-over, and serve him the pie.
Setup laptop in front of him.
Login to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and stand in front of BlackMage army.
Apply superglue to CEO forehead and hold his face to screen for 5 seconds.
Leave room and return home.

[Avery28]

Experience japanese bidet.

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[Welsper59]

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[tocsin]

So yeah ummm I might sound a lil dumb cuz I figured this out and ppl PROBABLY already know about this....

ANYYYWAYYYS

So there is a way to report someone's profile on the lodestone. What I have been doing is going to my blacklist (yes you can view your blacklist) and reporting them that way. There is a lil knight looking guy on everyones profile that you can use to report. To get to your blacklist you just go to your friends feed and you should see a tab that says Blacklist. I kinda feel bad for blowing up the mods on the site but this is so much easier to report than in the game.

Am I wrong for reporting the gil sellers/rmt this way? Seems so much easier to me. :/

Although I can agree that this is much easier, this only reports their lodestone page for being offensive. the mods that handle the lodestone are completely different from those in-game, and reporting their lodestone will not ban them in-game.

[Zumi]

There could be a in game report function. For example on tells there could be a right click report rmt. If 5 different people report the same person they are muted from sending more tells until a gm investigates them.

[Bluejay]

1. When someone is reported via the new right click function you add, log the last few number of lines of text they send.
2. When someone gets reported X number of times in Y number of minutes, lock their tell, shout, etc...
3. Put a function in help that says "I got locked, please unlock me".
4. When Help desk gets a report for unlocking, check their logs and see if they are a RMT. If so ignore the request and put a little 'correct' indicator on their ban.
5. If they were banned by mistake, put a little 'wrong' indicator next to their ban.
6. Have the system automatically adjust the X number of reports over Y number of minutes to minimize false bans and maximize correct bans using a stupid simple classification algorithm that anyone that has taken intro to computer programming could write in about 1 hour.

This is NOT hard. Spam filters do this stuff all the time. Unless Square is hiring its programmers from a highschool coop program they should be able to fix this.

[Mahri]

1. When someone is reported via the new right click function you add, log the last few number of lines of text they send.
2. When someone gets reported X number of times in Y number of minutes, lock their tell, shout, etc...

Auto-squelching can work, though it's most effective when the spam is coming through global channels rather than /tell, and it's a careful line to tread. That threshold has to be kept rather large (like, a whole lot of reports in very very few minutes) to avoid too many false positives, which are inevitable regardless, and the proper addressing of such has to be coordinated carefully on the GM side to make sure nothing gets lost in the shuffle.

See, though...I'm really confident that SE could do that if taken to task on it. The development and release aspect of this game is absolutely stellar in how smartly it's been planned, something that any other MMO developer should look to and take inspiration by. I do not doubt that they could coordinate effective and efficient ticket handling alongside this sort of system.

[Zephyranthes]

SE probably allows a healthy number of botters and gil sellers to function around. There are obvious botters roaming around the main cities' aetheryths and it doesn't take a genius or any complicated codes determine who they are.

[Mahri]

They really, really, really, REALLY need to add a right-click > report option.

Effect: Instant blacklist, instant report submission.

On SE's side: Report received, report is counted towards a threshold. Once threshold is reached, instant ticket created. IP address of reported player logged. GM gets ticket. Reviews chat lines. Decides yea/nay on action. Actions as appropriate. All details remain on permanent record.

Please, please add this function. Please.