Gil spammers

[Sida]

How hard would it be someone with friends to abuse that system and shut people down just for the fun of it? Don't get me wrong I fee that SE should be more proactive so they don't have to be reactive about the spam but I don't think the temp ban for global changes is an option

Not hard at all. But since the copy of the reported message is sent along the report, it would be no brainer for the moderator to see it was unjustified when a person disputes it. That would mean a period when person can't use public chat channels to one person, and possibly lengthy ban for everyone who reported them since all of this leaves tracks, tracks that can't be falsified like screenshots or copy paste can. Also the amount needed for the autoban should be considerable, at least 50, maybe even in the hundreds range. Would someone to risk getting a whole linkshell banned just for kicks?

[DoUrden]

Not hard at all. But since the copy of the reported message is sent along the report, it would be no brainer for the moderator to see it was unjustified when a person disputes it. That would mean a period when person can't use public chat channels to one person, and possibly lengthy ban for everyone who reported them since all of this leaves tracks, tracks that can't be falsified like screenshots or copy paste can. Also the amount needed for the autoban should be considerable, at least 50, maybe even in the hundreds range. Would someone to risk getting a whole linkshell banned just for kicks?

Agree.
Really the idea is to put the FF online gaming community in to the solution mix, with a quick verification by the company/employees. That puts a chuck of the work including the noticing a spam message and reporting in to the distributed hands of the gaming community.

[Saint_Angeles]

People spam tells about RMT Gil in this game? TIL.

[jmanfrw]

SE is seriously bad at handling this I once tried reporting a gil spammer (which is a terribly inconvenient mess in itself) just standing by the aetherite, with full detail as to position and the fact that they were just say spamming about every 45 seconds their speech so you wouldn't even need to get a tell. For over 4 days I watched this bot just stand there spamming over and over while people ran around it and using slap emotes because it was so out of hand by the Limsa MB.

They don't really care, my blacklist has bots I've blocked from a year ago still active I rarely see an account deleted. Just a few employees paid to play the game and personally mark any bots would do, they could even give them an easy macro tool to mark the bots for swift examination and possible acc bans.