Exactly how obvious do RMT need to be SE?

[Kaedan94]

Why are you using "you" and "your"?
In any case, what they are doing is not enough. Each week they ban maybe 1500 accounts after they have been advertising for days or weeks. They don't care about that. They can plan for that. It is clockwork on their rotational schedule. It is an expected business expense. See what I'm getting at, here?

Take that expected business expense and turn it around. Don't let them advertise for any longer than 10 minutes per account. As soon as they get enough reports, mute their entire account (all characters associated) and investigate. Make this hard to abuse. How likely is it that someone is going to convince 25+ people to report an innocent?

This way they can still do wave bans each week, but at the same time, making new accounts slowly becomes less viable because they can barely advertise anymore.

But you know. Hear no evil see no evil. All these people are just whining and want instant gratification.

And where do you expect the manpower for all this instant monitoring to come from? And no, it can't all be automated. Far too many false positives punish otherwise honest players.


Use the ignore list. If it fills up, delete the accounts that have already been banned.

I'm not siding with RMT or saying it's ok, but I'm able to see the big picture. SE bans accounts constantly, so they are obviously not doing nothing. The problem is they aren't doing it fast enough for some people. The instant gratification people. People who don't like to think critically and find ways to deal with problems.

Would it be nice if they had a huge team dedicated to responding instantly to reports and "silencing" those characters while they invesigate? Sure, it would be nice. But it's not realistic to hire that many people just to deal with it for a month to two (this will all die down once "expansion season" dust has settled). And automation is not an acceptable option because it results in far too many false positives.

Couldn't SE take legal action against RMT websites? I'm fairly certain Nexon has done similar with gold sellers on their games (although I'm not entirely sure of their success).

No, because almost all the websites are based in China. China doesn't recognize most foreign laws and doesn't extradite offenders.