Enough is enough, give us proper tools to deal with spammers

[Lucke]

This in turn means that the job described in (3) of needing a GM to handle all these reports, is only a significant (likely full-time) responsibility for maybe the first week or so, only while clearing out all the spam bot accounts already in the game or the first few new ones created, before the RMT companies realize it doesn't work any more. After that, the number of spam bots, and therefore the number of reports, would drop off to an occasional trickle, and the GM handling them could spend the majority of his/her time on other responsibilities. (Of course, when a report does come in, they'd still need to have someone available to handle it immediately. As mentioned, newcomers to the market will try out spam from time to time, and it's important that whenever they do, they find it unproductive.)

SE could hire an intern still in school for this job.

Pay them peanuts and I'm sure they wouldn't care. It's EXP in the business. Just on these forums I see people volunteering to read these reports for free (waived sub fee). Of course the players are biased and that could be an issue. If they get players to do it, have a suitable punishment for banning people they don't like, like banning their account for life or something.

[Niwashi]

SE could hire an intern still in school for this job.
Pay them peanuts and I'm sure they wouldn't care. It's EXP in the business. Just on these forums I see people volunteering to read these reports for free (waived sub fee).

Yeah, just going through one spam report after another after another identifying whether they're legit or not would be the sort of incredibly simple and incredibly boring work that's generally foisted off onto interns or other low paid temp workers. That's likely what they'd use to cover the initial surge of reporting. Once that initial surge is over and spam bots and the ensuing spam reports become a rare occurrence, then that responsibility could be passed on to the regular GM team, who should only have to deal with it occasionally after that point.

[OllieWoods]

Agreed, out with the gil spammers.

They are flies, we need flyswatters, not needles.