Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[KisaiTenshi]

If we get enough signs against these websites and explain our situation, something will happen

Keep dreaming.

These sites are all in mainland china. The people doing the spamming and drive-by-third-party-ads-on-youtube (when looking at FFXIV videos) are also in mainland china. They lie through their teeth about safety and legality.

The RMT problem seems to be hugely dependant on the server/data center. On Excalibur, there's a tiny window of opportunity for the RMT bots to delete/re-create their bots, so as such I'm blocking maybe 10 a day and that will be fine until about 2AM when they come out of the woodwork.

Most recently however they've started "adding you" as a friend, which is even more irritating, since I turned the sound effects off for Tell, now you get an obnoxious message in the middle of the screen that sdfsdfsdfsd sdfsdfsdf wants to add you as a friend. No. forget that nonsense.

Here's what I want:
1 or 2 click right-click "report". eg click report and then you get a little drop down and text box that sends a screenshot to SE.
Change the friends/tells mechanics so that you can only add friends if they are in your party, and can only send tells if you are mutually on each others friend list. Alternatively a straight up "decline all party, friend, and FC invites" tick-boxes would go a long way to culling the harassment in the game. For whatever reason the same person "invites" me to their FC every day that they're now at the top of the blacklist. As soon as I switch to a class that isn't level 50 I get FC invites every hour or so, not nearly as bad as the tell spam, but because it puts a message across the screen that I have to dismiss manually, it's far more irritating.

And if it were in my power to do so, I'd have all these RMT sites treated the same as piracy and childporn, have ISP's legally required to filter the DNS entries so that casually curious people can't access them.