RMT Enforcement - Something Interesting is happeneing

[SigSauer]

While I've been impressed with the effectiveness of the RMT report function in game, now we're seeing random party invites from obvious gil sellers. It's obvious what they want--to advertise their services--since the character names are random sorts of names that always contain things referencing gil selling.

I've been hesitant to use the RMT report function when I get these party invites, since the person hasn't actually tried to sell me gil and I don't want my report to seem like a "false" report when SE looks at it. I've tried accepting the invite to see if they would say something so that I could then report, but as soon as I accept the invite, they drop party.

Thoughts?

Can't report them using that function even if you wanted to. The function only works when there is a message on chat.

[Velisra]

Can't report them using that function even if you wanted to. The function only works when there is a message on chat.

Ah. I hadn't actually tried it so I didn't know that it wouldn't work anyway. That's that then.

So I guess I'll just ignore it for the time being. I'm not sure there would be a way for SE to combat this new gil seller advertising technique!

[Niwashi]

I'm not sure there would be a way for SE to combat this new gil seller advertising technique!

Well, all it would take is to block character names from using certain RMT related strings.

In chat, they can get around rules like that by forming their URL name with other symbols that just resemble the letters needed, or with placeholders and instructions on what to replace. But that doesn't really work with only a first and last name that are already limited to letters and a few special characters (apostrophe at least, though I think that may actually be the only one).

If SE prevented using certain RMT site names in character names as well as terms like "sellgils" or "sellsgil" and variations, I don't think these invite ads would work. At least not unless the bots started actually sending advertising messages to whoever accepted, but at that point, they'd be subject to the reporting feature that already drove them out of /tell spam in the first place.