I'd be in support of a removal of the search tool - as it only works if the person is online and not engaged in duty anyway in which case I can just /tell + type their name. Makes the function rather pointless no? The only times I've ever trie dto use it is if I want to respond to someone from the forum whos posted in my server's subforum but it just doesnt work like that because of that issue.

Knowing RMT though, they'd find a way around it, like just adding characters who walk past a bot to a database that they will just spam even more.