Unceasing, relentless daily harassment [RMT]

[Reynhart]

They'll just friend you again, and if you take away the right to friend people for new players people who start playing as a group will be turned away by having no means to communicate.

Same here, how often do you befriend complete strangers without having exchanged words on chat or by being near them ?
The options you have when clicking a character, a name in the chat, a name in the search results, or by typing the command are already different. It's not that difficult to remove /tell and /friend to some of those.

I can't believe the amount of people suggesting players to disable functions of the game just to deal with RMT and being perfectly fine with it.

We're not disabling it, we could restrict it to what usage normal people do of them. Only RMT spam randoms tells to the whole server at once.
For example, if we restrict so that you can't send /tell to more than 20 different people on a 10 minute window, would it really hinder your means of communicate ? Do you really have that much people on /tell at the same time ?