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    Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
    There are actually programming languages (perl and it's accompanying regular expressions mainly comes to mine) that allow for approximate matches (i.e. if it's just an extra space or changed letter it still matches), recognize that '0' can also be 'o' and other such common substitutions.
    SE already does this, as we can see how well it works. Thats why there are so many variations in the spam messages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eye_Gore View Post
    SE already does this, as we can see how well it works. Thats why there are so many variations in the spam messages.
    Perhaps. But if we had control over our own filters, we could fine tune it/change it faster than they adapt. There's proof in the fact that there's a third party RMT spam blocking addon for FFXIV that does this quite well, oh but it's third party so we could (in theory) get banned for it and we have to dance around the discussion. If SE would just actually deliver addon support...

    Of course, it's not the root of the RMT problem, but it would be a big QoL improvement...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eye_Gore View Post
    SE already does this, as we can see how well it works. Thats why there are so many variations in the spam messages.
    Maybe SE had some filters in place at one time, but considering I've seen messages lately that have a straight web address in them, such as www.whatever.com, with no attempt to mask the fact that it's a web address, well, I have come to believe that for whatever reason SE removed the filters at some point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
    Personal Housing
    While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cikala View Post
    Maybe SE had some filters in place at one time, but considering I've seen messages lately that have a straight web address in them, such as www.whatever.com, with no attempt to mask the fact that it's a web address, well, I have come to believe that for whatever reason SE removed the filters at some point.
    Nope, it's simply that the web address you saw was not in the filter. The filter does not filter out every URL, if it did, no player could refer a friend to their own site or anything like that. So if an RMT starts using a site that has yet to be blocked by the filter, it will get through until it's reported sufficiently to make it to the filter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
    Nope, it's simply that the web address you saw was not in the filter. The filter does not filter out every URL, if it did, no player could refer a friend to their own site or anything like that. So if an RMT starts using a site that has yet to be blocked by the filter, it will get through until it's reported sufficiently to make it to the filter.
    So are you trying to say the filter can't contain www.*.com? That's the first thing I would expect to be added to a filter. I'm pretty sure it was filtered when they were first put in place anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
    Personal Housing
    While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.

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