RMT Advertisers are ruining the game for me and many others.

[Inuk9]

The best idea is this.

More GMs ingame to punish gold sellers bots.

[Ryuukishi]

Is there a way to disable all tells? I barely ever get a tell except from a RMT person.

[OlyverW]

Is there a way to disable all tells? I barely ever get a tell except from a RMT person.

You can turn the sound off, go /busy (but it can cause other problems), and you can also move them to a different chat tab.

[Cadmar]

I understand that RMT is annoying and I don't really like getting their /tells either, but in all reality it has absolutely zero impact on me unless I allow it to. By getting upset when I see an RMT tell I am giving them power over me which I refuse to do. I let it slide off like the water on a duck's back.

Ignore them. That is the only real solution you are ever going to find.

[Ayer2015]

If people didn't buy gil in the first place....

[Bishop81]

Is there a way to disable all tells? I barely ever get a tell except from a RMT person.

Ya, you can. IIRC it's in chat settings, you get to pick what is displayed in a tab.

Edit: To be exact,

Click on the gear button near the chat box.
Look at Log Filters and click the one you want.
Enable/Disable channels as you like.

[Musashidon]

Y - Remove The Free Trial.

no thank you. no need for something that can't be abused to be removed.

[Chat Restrictions]

- The chat options /shout, /yell, and /tell cannot be used by Free Trial characters

the restrictions to free trial.

http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...70929&ret=main

[Aerowaffle]

I understand that RMT is annoying and I don't really like getting their /tells either, but in all reality it has absolutely zero impact on me unless I allow it to. By getting upset when I see an RMT tell I am giving them power over me which I refuse to do. I let it slide off like the water on a duck's back.

Ignore them. That is the only real solution you are ever going to find.

Well, other than having more methods to filter them out. That would be a solution as well.

RMT advertisers are the game world's telemarketer. For a vast majority of the people they contact, they are a hassle, interrupt whatever you're doing (you get up to get the phone for a telemarketer. In the game, you hear the sound and look down at your chat log to see who messaged you), and the people have zero intention of ever buying from them.

However, you can't tell RMT advertisers to put you on their "do-not-call list". They don't care that they annoy thousands of people, and they're already going against the rules of the game, so they don't care if more people tell them to stop. So long as they believe they might convince a fraction of a fraction of people to buy gil from them, they continue their shotgun-spread approach to advertising.

I ignore them best I can (as I said, placed in a different tab and turned off the tell sound). But the point is: I shouldn't have to go through such measures to ignore hordes of bots that should, by all rights, be banned.

[Avenger]

Many people have suggested communication preferences including a whitelist. You would specify the

type of person (friend, ls, fc, party, explicit whitelist, people in zone, anyone in world...)
who is allowed to send you each
type of communication (tell, friend request, pt invite, ls invite, fc invite...)

Filtering /tell means that random people would need to use other means (/say, /yell, /shout) to talk to you if they are not in any of your pre-approved categories, so this could make it harder to reply to someone who has just teleported away, for example.

I don't receive any RMT spam via moogle mail because no spambots are on my friend list (in spite of their best efforts to the contrary!)

[Avenger]

I ignore them best I can (as I said, placed in a different tab and turned off the tell sound). But the point is: I shouldn't have to go through such measures to ignore hordes of bots that should, by all rights, be banned.

In the best of all possible worlds, spambots would be banned proactively and automatically across all servers without players needing to report them. If any legitimate player were erroneously banned due to a false positive, there could be a simple appeals mechanism.