Allow blacklist to hide spammers abusing Party Finder

[asmkitty]

Spammers are continuously abusing party finder, mislisting their spam as duties that sort first in the list with impossible ilevel reqs preventing anybody from joining. They all advertise out-of-game discord contacts because they are RMT.

You can frequently see the spam/RMT pfs crowding out real listings in the default party finder view. Players are forced to scroll past the spam or use filters to try and avoid it every time they look at the window.



There is no way to avoid these spammers: blacklisted PFs still appear in Party Finder with grey text, and you cannot blacklist them without joining (which they prevent).

SE ought to define a policy and police PF listings to stop this kind of abuse by spammers. Continuously mislisting duties that cannot be joined, with no intention to complete them, reduces the usability of Party Finder and harasses the entire community. But maybe that's too much work.

Please at least improve the blacklist feature so we can avoid these spammers like we do other RMT spam in chat.
Completely hide blacklisted PF listings, and allow us to add them to blacklist without joining.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Agreed, its ridiculous.

[Kurando]

Seconded. I've no issue if they want to move any negotiations to Discord, but to purposely clog up the PF with constant advertisements is extremely annoying. Even using the Blacklisting option is completely flawed so there is just no way to avoid them at the moment.

To add to this, it's kind of abusing the PF if you advertise certain content (i.e. Expert Roulette,) but have no intention to do them or aren't even advertising for them like OP mentioned just so they can get more visibility. Probably if they listed the activity under "Other" I might not care so much but what can you do. Honestly I'd prefer a moderator to log in randomly throughout the day and check for such parties, should they be listed as a duty that's not intended to be done at that time then the mod asks the host to either relist it under something more appropriate (like "Other") or to take out down out of the PF. That's probably unlikely to happen though unfortunately...

[SenorPatty]

Thirded.

Its started to get annoying to have to scroll down everytime I open PF or refresh it.

[SouLRebeL1986]

Great idea, this should be done.

[Laesha]

Yes please.

Would like 1000 times if i could

[Rockette]

I don't mind people selling clears but obnoxious PF advertising needs to be addressed.

[Joe777]

Better idea: why not add filters to PF messages? For example, a player adding a group to PF would not be able to list their group if they put the word "selling" into it. They'd get a message saying they have one or more words not allowed in PF and will be forced to edit it to list their group.

[Jijifli]

Better idea: why not add filters to PF messages? For example, a player adding a group to PF would not be able to list their group if they put the word "selling" into it. They'd get a message saying they have one or more words not allowed in PF and will be forced to edit it to list their group.

They'll just work around that.

Sel. Ling.

S E L L I N G

etc.

[Vstarstruck]

+1, did notice this issue, something should be done about it