RMT Bots in Novice Network! We need help!

[Kerwin]

Names partially censored per forum rules. But here on Balmung we are combating bots in full swing and cannot keep up with over 3 pages of them!

Is there some way to counter this activity on SE's end?

[Pinkie_Pie]

PLEASE help! T_T

[Ilenya]

Considering I haven't quite achieved mentor status yet, I have to ask...How would this have even happened? Is there someone specifically inviting all these to the Novice Network?

[Pinkie_Pie]

Considering I haven't quite achieved mentor status yet, I have to ask...How would this have even happened? Is there someone specifically inviting all these to the Novice Network?

Its the only way, they have to be invited OR they hack themselves into the channel.

[worldofneil]

Is there someone specifically inviting all these to the Novice Network?

Yes. Either because they're just adding everyone with a leaf (trying to be helpful?), or because they see all the RMT style names and think it'll be amusing to add them (maybe it's in an attempt to make SE be more proactive towards RMT if they make the Novice Network less effective?)

Also just in case people don't realise, whoever is inviting them doesn't even have to be in the Novice Network themselves, the system quite happily lets you invite even if you're not in the chat channel. And even if we knew who was doing it, it wouldn't make any difference except to cause harassment issues as whoever is doing it isn't technically doing anything wrong either (morally yes if they're intentionally adding them, but gamewise no).

There's no rule that says "Don't invite RMT to the Novice Network". It could probably come under the general causing issues for other players thing, but if SE themselves can't seem to work out who is RMT and remove them, they can't expect the players to correctly identify them either...

[RyuSaarva]

I have never seen them in phoenix mentor chat.

[DeeColon]

I have never seen them in phoenix mentor chat.

I used to be on Phoenix before transferring to a bit lower populated server. Phoenix has an extremely low amount of RMT activity in general because of the high population it's harder to get the accounts on, my first few weeks of being on Sargatanas was a huge culture shock and felt like I couldn't even use the /tell tab because any time i stopped looking at the game for a few minutes I'd have 2 - 5 new RMT tells.

[Ignnis]

You know you can kick them from the chat right :/

[ExKage]

You know you can kick them from the chat right :/

I believe I've heard that they just end up being reinvited.

[Jamillion]

You know you can kick them from the chat right :/

Kicks only last 30 minutes and each one opens a ticket with the GMs which may have undesirable consequences if they don't have enough bandwidth to investigate other issues