Anyone else lose their Report RMT button?

[Niwashi]

I think the quick report option for RMT is designed to help with the messages sent through /tell. But that doesn't stop you separately reporting some RMT beacon standing in Uldah spamming /say, you just can't do that with the 'quick' report option.

The quick "Report RMT" option is for any RMT spam messages that come through the chat system, regardless of what channel it uses. I've used it both on /tell spam and /say spam.

[Kosmos992k]

The quick "Report RMT" option is for any RMT spam messages that come through the chat system, regardless of what channel it uses. I've used it both on /tell spam and /say spam.

Cool, thanks. I've only used it a couple of times on the pernicious tell-spams. I definitely think that the more people who are aware of how to use the feature, and that it is there in the first place, the less RMT spam we'll have to deal with.

[Felis]

So we can't do anything to those bots that sit in one place spamming /say? That sucks.

If they use /say to sell gil, then you can report them

[Niwashi]

So we can't do anything to those bots that sit in one place spamming /say? That sucks.

Is that right? It does't make much sense. A message in the /say channel is still a message. So long as you're reporting a message that the RMT bot itself had sent, it shouldn't matter whether it sent that message through /say, /shout, /tell, or any other channel.

The thing you can't do is use this feature to report characters whom you suspect might be farming bots. For that, you'd have to fill out a report saying why you'd suspect them. (Spam is a lot more straightforward. You can click directly on the message that violates the ToS, so that message, and therefore the violation, can be a automatically incorporated into the report.)

[OliviaJ]

Is that right? It does't make much sense. A message in the /say channel is still a message. So long as you're reporting a message that the RMT bot itself had sent, it shouldn't matter whether it sent that message through /say, /shout, /tell, or any other channel.

The thing you can't do is use this feature to report characters whom you suspect might be farming bots. For that, you'd have to fill out a report saying why you'd suspect them. (Spam is a lot more straightforward. You can click directly on the message that violates the ToS, so that message, and therefore the violation, can be a automatically incorporated into the report.)

I don't know if that is how it is or not. Maybe I read the posts above and misunderstood it to only be /tell

[Reptiletc]

While on this topic, I wonder why the report screen doesn't auto-populate ANY information. You have to manually punch in every detail from your server, device, location, ect. just to MAYBE get them punished for breaking rules. Honestly I feel like I'm the one being punished when I do this, so I stopped bothering.

Seriously, it's not even a slightly difficult thing to do. It's a minor fetch and fill script, they simply just don't feel like making it for some reason.

[Zeno_McDohl]

While on this topic, I wonder why the report screen doesn't auto-populate ANY information. You have to manually punch in every detail from your server, device, location, ect. just to MAYBE get them punished for breaking rules. Honestly I feel like I'm the one being punished when I do this, so I stopped bothering.

Seriously, it's not even a slightly difficult thing to do. It's a minor fetch and fill script, they simply just don't feel like making it for some reason.

My guess: They reworked their GM backend, which is why this option took so long to get implemented. This is probably some counter based system where it increments by one.

[Zeno_McDohl]

This happened again to me. It came back eventually, last night it went away. I had 20 RMT messages overnight and no more Report RMT button.

[Ametrine]

It's possible that they have a queue of reports to file through on their end, and when they hit a certain threshold of them, it cuts it off from receiving new ones until they sort them out.

[OliviaJ]

Haven't had mine go away yet but can't say I've used it two dozen times in one gaming session. Probably a dozen at most. I'll say this, it seems to be working decently. The quantity has decreased noticeably.