Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Radkat]

People like to think the right click > report idea is a great idea, but I believe it's just a waste of time. SE can already detect the ad spammers without people reporting them. It's not hard to put mechanisms in place to auto-detect spammers. The problem is that they keep coming back as new accounts. Right click>report does nothing to fix that. If every player right click> reports, there will be enough reports to DDOS the server, much less have anyone read through them.

[RichardButte]

/signed

I'm sick of having to /busy in order to not be spammed.

I seriously don't understand how and why we don't have a "Report Spammer" feature built into the game via right clicking. If an account whispers 5 people and even 3 of them flag it as spam, then remove the account's ability to whisper for 24 hours, minimum.

[spardamaddhatter]

/sign Sparda MaddHatter (goblin)

[illu45]

As a new player, I agree that the gill selling spam seems pretty out of control. Unless I set myself to /busy, I get at least 10 tells every half hour of gameplay. There's also lots of gill selling spam in Gridania etc. I've been adding players to my blocklist and reporting them when I have the time, but the number of tells I get doesn't seem to decrease. Has there been any official response to this by Square Enix?

Personally, I think that levelgating the player list (and possibly the /tell command, which is already disabled on free trial accounts regardless of level) would be a good way to go. I don't know much about bot scripting, but it strikes me that it is much harder to write a script that would level a character to level 10 than it is to make a script that creates a new character and spams people.

/petition signed as Ramor Fang (Lumia)

[KendraNomura]

/signed
Kendra Nomura (Adamantoise)
i think the option to recieve tells from cetain sources is a good idea. like friends only.

[Zabuza]

I have noticed there are quite a few people whose very first posts on this forum are to sign this petition. That should be a rather telling sign. Are you listening SE? This is a huge problem that affects a large portion of your players, and it's NOT going away with your current model. This isn't something you just brush to the side and ignore. We want answers. We want action.

[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.