Anyone else lose their Report RMT button?

[Nerisu]

Mine disappeared yesterday too. It might be just a coincidence but I just restarted the game and it was back.

[luckystrikes]

I have seen a positive impact on the amount of RMT activity on Lamia. I had one negative experience of reporting multiple times on a RMT advertiser with no effect but it was at odd hours also so it didnt get me too riled up.

[Knahli]

Balmung hasn't had chat spammers in an extremely long time, but every few months or so you'll see a hoard of farming bots doing their thing - as is the case right now. Sadly, there's no quick way of reporting them even though it's obvious as hell what they are.

[LineageRazor]

Balmung hasn't had chat spammers in an extremely long time, but every few months or so you'll see a hoard of farming bots doing their thing - as is the case right now. Sadly, there's no quick way of reporting them even though it's obvious as hell what they are.

This reporting feature is intended to handle RMT that directly harass players through intrusive messaging. Mine-bots and level-bots and whatever do not directly impact you in any way, aside from a buzz of irritation when you see them. They may indirectly harass you by negatively affecting the economy, but by and large the RMT most people hate are the ones flooding their chat with stupid ads.

To be honest, though, I think the whole thing is a placebo to begin with. I firmly believe that SE ALREADY had ways to quickly identify and ban RMT spammers. It's probably not hard to pick out players broadcasting the same message to random players for hours at a time without ever changing zones. It's why you'd rarely see the same spam-bot longer than a day at most. All the reports players painstakingly filled out? Binned instantly, because the RMT Task Force already knew about the bots in question. I believe the report feature is purely there to comfort frustrated players who want to have the feeling that they're doing something to help, without having to go through the painful process of filling out a report. In short: SE gave us the feature because we asked, not because it in any way helps the problem.

RMT, being composed of countless independent businesses, have more manpower than ANY single business could possibly hope to match and still maintain a profit. They will always be able to field new spam-bots as fast as SE can take them down, no matter how fast SE takes them down. The only relief will be found on overpopulated servers like Gilgamesh or Balmung, for the simple fact that it's difficult to create new characters on those servers - and even there, the RMT will squirm through the cracks as quickly as they can manage.

[Niwashi]

I haven't had the Report button disappear like that, and I've used it quite a few times, though I don't think I ever saw 20 in one session. If it were a timed limit (only X number can be sent in a given period of time), I'd expect an error message to appear rather than the report button itself to disappear.

I have seen a marked decrease in the amount of spam since this feature went live.

It would be nice, though, if it automatically added the characters you report to your blacklist rather than making reporting and blacklisting them two separate actions. (Of course, blacklisting would have to remain a separate option for cases where you want to BL people for reasons other than spam, but I can't imagine the other way around, of reporting someone and not also wanting them blacklisted.)

[Rakiria]

I just right-clicked on a message in the fc chat, where no RMT spam would possibly be, and there was the option to report. So it's not filtered. To /tells.

[SpiritMuse]

I've lost the button too now. No idea why. And just as there was a spammer to report, too.