Level requirement for friend requests?

[RitsukoSonoda]

Can we implement a Level requirement to send out friend requests. The RMT on Ultros have been spamming people with friend requests for awhile now and tonight seems especially bad. Its bad enough the /tell spam is to the point that I have ended up filtering out tells entirely because its too much of an issue to blacklist these people because it takes so long to empty blacklist slots to add the newer spam bots to it.

The level requirement needs to be something they can't do in a few minutes either I would say atleast level 20.

Also a clear all button for my Blacklist?

[Chiramu]

This would stop you from inviting newly recruited friends to your friends list though , they would have to wait ages just to be added to your friends list!

[Anneliese]

They're all sending spam requests from the same accounts. We need to make it so blacklisting someone affects their entire account.

[Lucke]

Have a checkbox that you can check, disabling all friend requests. If you have a friendo new to the game, nothing is stopping you from sending them a friend request instead of them sending you one.

[kyuven]

A level requirement would not stop the RMTers, just slow them down for a few hours.
Clear all for the Blacklist, though, wouldn't be a bad idea. Or at least an ability to turn it into a check list like my email inbox has been since before FFXI came out.
Disabling friend requests would also be a good idea.
Blacklisting an entire account would also make sense.

[Gilben]

Just one little suggestion : deny the usage of the /friend request functionnality before the 15th level (or deny it completly maybe) for trial accounts. They can be able to recieve such requests, not able to emit themselves.

[Itseotle]

They're all sending spam requests from the same accounts. We need to make it so blacklisting someone affects their entire account.

Just one little suggestion : deny the usage of the /friend request functionnality before the 15th level (or deny it completly maybe) for trial accounts. They can be able to recieve such requests, not able to emit themselves.

Both would be serious step in the right direction. Blacklists should be account wide, not just per character. This way, while your waiting for the next round of bans from the Special Task Force, you won't to see the same RMT spammer just swapping accounts.

As for the whole "but my lowbie buddy can't friend invite me!" What Gilben says holds true. While, if a lock were to be implemented, the lowbie character cannot send friend requests but still receive them. Tells should be the same way imo. Cannot send tells until like your Lv10 MSQ but can reply to them. And what is to stop these players from chatting in Say anyways? If the player base is as stupid as SE seems to think we are, then new players don't know how to /tell someone anyways.

[Novaura]

The level requirement needs to be something they can't do in a few minutes either I would say atleast level 20.

I like this because all of the RMT and their bots are all Level 1 characters and have the new player icon next to their names when you see them in the field and when you don't see them when you reject their friend requests, they are still all Level 1 and in Ul'dah around the Aetheryte Plaza in the Steps of Nald. It makes them very easy to identify.

[Desteroth]

Just one little suggestion : deny the usage of the /friend request functionnality before the 15th level (or deny it completly maybe) for trial accounts. They can be able to recieve such requests, not able to emit themselves.

This would be a good idea.