Everyone complaining about no action on RMT, please read

[DreadRabbit]

If they could just add a filter that stops any /tell with a list of the most common offending website ads that would stop a lot. I don't know about other servers, but on Zalera it seems to be three main websites that are constantly at it.

I need to take screenshots as those names probably aren't accurate, but just about every /tell I get is from the same circle of 3-4 gil selling sites. And the pvp one puts spaces between the letters to make it harder to track. It can't be that hard to code that sort of detecting filter, could it? (honest question).

Edited: got rid of the website names as that probably is against ToS somehow. My bad.

[Zabuza]

If they could just add a filter that stops any /tell with a list of the most common offending website ads that would stop a lot. I don't know about other servers, but on Zalera it seems to be three main websites that are constantly at it.

I need to take screenshots as those names probably aren't accurate, but just about every /tell I get is from the same circle of 3-4 gil selling sites. And the pvp one puts spaces between the letters to make it harder to track. It can't be that hard to code that sort of detecting filter, could it? (honest question).

Edited: got rid of the website names as that probably is against ToS somehow. My bad.

http://i.imgur.com/qkNTxWQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PuCI6oz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rb45o8h.jpg

P.S. Note the timestamps.

[Kayden1010]

So it's a cycle isn't it, where no matter how hard Square Enix tries more bots and hackers are just gonna keep appearing? That's depressing

[DreadRabbit]

http://i.imgur.com/qkNTxWQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PuCI6oz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rb45o8h.jpg

P.S. Note the timestamps.

Holy moly, YUP. There they are in all their horrifying glory. So compared to the sites I see commonly that's roughly seven websites. Filtering to ban the typing of seven websites has got to be easier than tracking down 11k accounts per week. It has to be.

[Zabuza]

So it's a cycle isn't it, where no matter how hard Square Enix tries more bots and hackers are just gonna keep appearing? That's depressing

It isn't this bad in any other MMO with the /tell spam really. SE is not helpless to combat this problem. Plenty of suggestions have been made, all of which they ignore.

[Kayden1010]

It isn't this bad in any other MMO with the /tell spam really. SE is not helpless to combat this problem. Plenty of suggestions have been made, all of which they ignore.

I'm tired of it...... I'm tired of accidentally ignoring my friend's tells because the other 70 percent of the time it's a spammer. I'm tired of trying read what friends are telling me but am being bombarded by spammers that won't stop...... I want to be able to receive tell's without the worry that is a spammer, and especially for the friends who need my help in the game. I'm tired of trying to contact my friends who make it harder cause they set themselves to "busy" online status cause the spammers are unrelenting.

[Avenger]

It's not that SE isn't doing anything at all - it's that whatever they're doing hasn't prevented spam from increasing drastically over the past month or so.

On our server, spammers have become particularly brazen and are even going back to /shout spam in all of the cities.

Given the severity of the spam problem and the large number of related forum threads, I'm surprised that I have yet to see a response from anyone on the community team.

[Zabuza]

I'm tired of it...... I'm tired of accidentally ignoring my friend's tells because the other 70 percent of the time it's a spammer. I'm tired of trying read what friends are telling me but am being bombarded by spammers that won't stop...... I want to be able to receive tell's without the worry that is a spammer, and especially for the friends who need my help in the game. I'm tired of trying to contact my friends who make it harder cause they set themselves to "busy" online status cause the spammers are unrelenting.

You are not alone my friend. This is quite a widespread aggravation among the players. What frustrates me is SE doesn't seem to give a gil about our suffering in this area.

[Avenger]

You are not alone my friend. This is quite a widespread aggravation among the players. What frustrates me is SE doesn't seem to give a gil about our suffering in this area.

It would be great to see some response from the community team, and hopefully from Yoshi-P as well in the next letter from the producer (there are a lot of "what about the awful spam problem?" posts in the official question submission thread.)

[Zabuza]

It would be great to see some response from the community team, and hopefully from Yoshi-P as well in the next letter from the producer (there are a lot of "what about the awful spam problem?" posts in the official question submission thread.)

I heard last time they got asked an RMT question they legit ignored it.