Possible anti-RMT idea?

[Miakisu]

Since we have so many problems with bots, I was wondering if it's possible for a simpler solution:

SE creates a couple accounts on each server that aren't named anything special and are lvl xx. As RMT does their shouts, SE captures all names that send shout to name-capture character; a name-capture bot, if you will.

It's an incognito way to have SE with their pulse to the servers, while gathering all data. In addition, I imagine this would be easier than reading countless reports or more reliable than players that have given up reporting individual RMT names.

Other Ideas:

mmhmm. Or as an alternative, right-click name-->block also has an additional option, Right-click--> Report RMT, with an auto add-to-blacklist option

I suggested that in another thread we have SE GM's just take a look at when very large sums of money are transferred between players. Flag up when a couple hundred thousand to million (or whatever number they want) to assist with catching cheaters.

I am also leaning toward the whitelist or communications prefs approach:

Friends can: [√]tell [√]invite [√]invite to alliance [√] invite to FC ...
or
Allow /tell from: [√]friends [√]party [√]fc [√]linkshell ... [√]whitelist [ ]spammers [ ]anyone

[Risvertasashi]

I assume you mean tells instead of shouts... might not be a bad idea but the list would need review by a human; bots use the same in game search function individual players can use themselves. The chance of a player /tell'ing a person randomly are low, but it's very possible.

[Miakisu]

I assume you mean tells instead of shouts... might not be a bad idea but the list would need review by a human; bots use the same in game search function individual players can use themselves. The chance of a player /tell'ing a person randomly are low, but it's very possible.

Of course. I'm just eliminating the middleman, which is a player with a 150/200 character-filled blacklist that has given up on reporting It becomes a little tedious to copy every name on my list to GM's, especially when they are written as dsflkgjdflkgjdkslfjg or something of that sort.

[Risvertasashi]

It definitely needs to be streamlined one way or another. My favored method would be right click > report, but a tell-trap could work as well.

[Miakisu]

mmhmm. Or as an alternative, right-click name-->block also has an additional option, Right-click--> Report RMT, with an auto add-to-blacklist option

[FaileExperiment]

Why not place an account in "review" automatically once they've been blacklisted by a certain amt of players in a specified amount of time? They can still play, but cannot send tells until reviewed by a human at SE.

Also they should place hard limits on the amount of tells that can be sent out. Theres little legitimate reason to send out tells to more than a handful of players within the span of a minute, for example. Put limits on tells sent from a character under a certain level limit, or on new accounts.

lots of ways to address this. These are just off the top of my head and may or may not be workable. But the point is there's a lot more SE could be doing. Every week they say hundreds of accounts have been banned, but I still see them in my blacklist after months.

[OMG]

They should just copy Warcraft's anti spam idea, which offers a right click -> report spam option that auto blocks the spammer from shouts/tells when x amount of people report them.

[Meshico]

They should just copy Warcraft's anti spam idea, which offers a right click -> report spam option that auto blocks the spammer from shouts/tells when x amount of people report them.

This is the best idea so far, you just have to worry about jerks that have jerky friends, that report innocents. In this case its, does the good outweigh the bad, but I think of it as, it would suck if I were put in that situation. To have to clear my name and who know's where it will go from there

-Tari

[Risvertasashi]

This is the best idea so far, you just have to worry about jerks that have jerky friends, that report innocents. In this case its, does the good outweigh the bad, but I think of it as, it would suck if I were put in that situation. To have to clear my name and who know's where it will go from there

-Tari

With the mass volume of tells they send out, it's easy to set the threshold pretty high. It can also have comparatively little consequence until a GM can review: Just block the reported account from shout and tell, then the banhammer can come (or not, in the case of abuse) when Square's people confirm it.

[randysquirrel]

Except hunts exist. Someone "early pulls", all QQers instantly report him as RMT