Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Tristamwolf]

/Signed by Khloe Zhwan of Ultros

I really support the idea of a Regular Expression Chat Filter option. I've seen a lot of evidence that points to the fact that a RegEx chat filter would be able to filter about 95-98% of all annoying gil-spam messages.

[Zabuza]

/Signed by Khloe Zhwan of Ultros

I really support the idea of a Regular Expression Chat Filter option. I've seen a lot of evidence that points to the fact that a RegEx chat filter would be able to filter about 95-98% of all annoying gil-spam messages.

I believe chat filters provides a good combination of ease of implementation plus the least intrusive method against players. I still highly favor this idea. Most of the other ideas present a downside. For example...

-Level gating /tells.(Can stop two friends under the level gate from able to whisper each other if implemented.)
-Go after the gilbuyers(Not as easy to do as it sounds.)
-Adding a right click report option.(The RMTs will simply come back on another account and resume the spamming, little would change.)
-Increasing blacklist capacity.(The RMTs will simply come back on another account and resume the spamming, little would change.)
-Go after the suppliers(I actually don't see too much of a downside to this either.)
-Account wide blacklist(This will do little, as RMTs jump from account to account anyways after bein banned.)
-Allow /tells only once every 5 seconds or so.(Doesn't hurt players too much, but would be a minor annoyance for people who type fast for sure.)
-Allow /tell filters only between friends.(Would hurt crafters, and people in general like sending /tells to strangers sometimes.
-Implement custom chat filters (No downside that I can see. Unless the filters were not implemented properly and filtered out legit messages as well.)

[tocsin]

I believe chat filters provides a good combination of ease of implementation plus the least intrusive method against players. I still highly favor this idea.

My only concern with a "chat filter" is that, unless it is allowed to be user-defined, it is going to be bypassed quickly. Remember, RMT is run by hundreds, if not thousands, of thinking human beings, primarily in Asian countries. Unless each players chat filter is different, its only going to be a matter of minutes before RMT can bypass any regular expression.

[Zabuza]

My only concern with a "chat filter" is that, unless it is allowed to be user-defined, it is going to be bypassed quickly. Remember, RMT is run by hundreds, if not thousands, of thinking human beings, primarily in Asian countries. Unless each players chat filter is different, its only going to be a matter of minutes before RMT can bypass any regular expression.

Yeah, I assumed with chat filters that it would be user-defined. It would only make sense imo. But knowing SE if they did implement chat filters they wouldn't allow it to be user defined, lol.