Please limit tells

[ChameleonMS]

Nope, just blacklist the RMTs.
Now fixing the Blacklist is something that does need to be looked at.
Auto-removal from blacklist when accounts are deleted.
Increasing the number entries allowed on Blacklist.
A faster bulk operation for blacklist management (i.e. delete N accounts in operation, usually check boxes or similar interface operation)

[FunkyBunch]

Nope, just blacklist the RMTs.
Now fixing the Blacklist is something that does need to be looked at.
Auto-removal from blacklist when accounts are deleted.
Increasing the number entries allowed on Blacklist.
A faster bulk operation for blacklist management (i.e. delete N accounts in operation, usually check boxes or similar interface operation)

I had to blacklist 25 times in 5 minutes yesterday. How about we do something else instead? Blacklisting is not a solution. It's a bandaid.

[Cromi_Jobly]

I had to blacklist 25 times in 5 minutes yesterday. How about we do something else instead? Blacklisting is not a solution. It's a bandaid.

That happens every time SE does their account bans. For the next week we have to clean up our black lists for the wave of new spam accounts. It's basically having a solution that is part of the problem.

[FunkyBunch]

That happens every time SE does their account bans. For the next week we have to clean up our black lists for the wave of new spam accounts. It's basically having a solution that is part of the problem.

If you didn't use a friend code, you don't get to use tells on new accounts until you're level 20.
You are limited to tells to 5 different players per minute.
Sending the same message as a tell 5 times results in lockout. 10 times results in auto suspension.
Second offense, auto-ban.

[MaeIsMean]

Sending the same message as a tell 5 times results in lockout. 10 times results in auto suspension.

They already get around this by adding the spam letters at the end of the message.... which honestly is a failure of the filter to not recognize that 197 of 200 characters are exactly the same, but I'm hopeful that they will be able to adjust it to recognise a message that is more than 75% identical, but we'll see.

If we're gonna limit tells to level 20 for brand new characters, then there needs to be an explanation when they first log in so they don't find out the hard way.... also, they should not be able to RECEIVE tells in that time either, save them from spammers

[Dzian]

I had to blacklist 25 times in 5 minutes yesterday. How about we do something else instead? Blacklisting is not a solution. It's a bandaid.

Black list doesn't work anyway. It's incredibly rare I get a gil tell from the same person twice even if I don't blacklist them. which is why I stopped bothering.

need to do something though, limit tells to people above a certain rank or ppl in your ls,fc or friendlist,
or separate them so you can leave the chimes on for people you know and turn them off for people you don't then you could just dump them in another chat window.

auto filter out tells with any kind of website reference from accounts under a specified level perhaps.

or maybe even a basic tell counter, track how many tells a person sends in x time and mute / flag them after x number per minute or something till a gm investigates