Ultimate RMT Spam Killer.. Us.

[MashAuria]

Troll 1: /tell player1 hey bud, how have you been! That coil run was awesome last week!

Player 1: /tell troll 1 sorry, you must have the wrong person

Troll 1: /report rmt


Troll2 : /tell player1 thats an awesome looking top, where does it drop

Player1: /tell troll2 thx, sastasha nm

Troll2: /report rmt


And yes they would do it. Think of all the dumb, waste of time stuff you have seen trolls do to piss people off. You need to be able to look at this from the perspective of a troll. Not "Hey, I wouldn't abuse this, so no one would."

Pretty soon, players stop responding to tells. And now we have a troll spam and rmt spam problem. Remember the rmt are constantly creating new characters regardless, so this would have little to no effect on them, while giving the trolls another toy.

Not to discourage from thinking about solutions, but if you can't look at it from all sides, it probably not going to be much of a solution.

Troll3, Troll4, on and on until Troll10, in less than 30 minutes from the time the first Troll clicked 'Report'? (Each individual 'Report' will expire after 30 mins, so you have to receive 10 unique reports within 30 minutes.)

Creating new characters wouldn't do anything against my idea because the reports are against the ACCOUNT.. the SE account, not the character. I'm well aware they create a toon, spam, log out, create a new toon, spam and repeat.. But this flags the SE account, not the character.

I think your forgting still the fact that said abusers cluster together.

All that would be needed is for one person to have their cluster buddy's send a few tells the victim takes the bait because their reall names not omgsell.booooo sends a tell in return then boom they have been the target of this system of yours and are locked out from doing stuff.

I'll admit your ideas are good in theory its too flawed to the point it be used to harm legit players. Wer don't live in a perfect world where we can trust people to use stuff like this as intended they will find away to twist it to make it fun for them by ruining another's time.

So 15 reports in 30 minutes. That's sending a tell to a unique person every 2 minutes.. That would take some fantastic coordination. And like I said, the harassee would simply file a Harassment report, the GM would see the people flagging the innocent player and disable their SE account from ever-again being able to file my 'Report as RMT' option.

So 1 person gets trolled, group is unable to troll again.. Unless they purchase another copy of the game, anyway.

I am looking at it from all sides, and I think it's easy to create tweaks to the system (as with any system) and punish the trolls at the same time.

There is no perfect solution, and no matter what you do, some innocent's going to suffer.. Even the current RMT /tell spam pattern-matching catches innocent people. But with what I propose in place, the rare instance of a troll first-timing an unsuspecting innocent will forever bar that troll from being able to do it again.

What's left are trolls unable to abuse the feature, while all the legitimate players report away and RMT stops as soon as it starts without ever blocking legitimate /tells.

Lastly, the harassee is only blocked from sending /TELLs or Friend Requests for an hour, unless they contact a GM (which will be fast because they're not dealing with spam reports anymore), this doesn't in any way hinder their LS or FC, /say, /shout or /party chat. They continue playing with a minor interruption in /tells until a GM clears the report.. Meanwhile trolls are forever blocked from being able to do it again.