Allow blacklist to hide spammers abusing Party Finder

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Instead of having to blacklist how about SE changing its policy and start banning these blatant RMT that are free to run rampant because they are using discord and maybe they will stop spamming them in game

Alas, SE has a horrible track record when it comes to taking action against hackers, botters and RMT such as this. They won't do anything.

[AmaSagahl]

No reason to blacklist, nor will that ever happen.

Just give people an additional tool to advertise stuff ingame. But even that will probably not happen.

[Joe777]

No reason to blacklist, nor will that ever happen.

Just give people an additional tool to advertise stuff ingame. But even that will probably not happen.

Hell no. We want to discourage it, not encourage it.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

No reason to blacklist, nor will that ever happen.

Just give people an additional tool to advertise stuff ingame. But even that will probably not happen.

One already exists. It's labelled "Other." Notice how often it's used? They don't care because they're trying to make their adverts appear first on the list.

[SerLuke]

I totally agree something needs to be done either the option to hide listings via blacklist or report.

It seems like it\\'s only getting worse too. I don\\'t remember it being anywhere near this bad back in HW also i don\\'t remember it being put as expert roulette in the past either

I think people only started doing it once cross server PF was added which was pretty late in HW even then though I agree I only started seeing it when Omega dropped I guess the RMT caught on that the GMs don’t moderate PF

[SerLuke]

One already exists. It's labelled "Other." Notice how often it's used? They don't care because they're trying to make their adverts appear first on the list.

Yeah if this stuff was being listed under other no one would care(I know I wouldn’t) the fact that they are mislisting to get to the top of the list and some days flooding the top of the list (as demonstrated by the OP’s screenshot) shows this warrants GM action or at least some sort of UI change since it’s becoming disruptive to PF

[zeth07]

I made a thread about this very thing back on 01-04-2015 09:37 PM and like 99% of the people in the thread absolutely disagreed with me when I was suggesting making a separate section for buying/selling stuff whether it'd be content or for crafters.


My how the times have changed.


Proof:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Addressed-This

[Rita1989]

I made a thread about this very thing back on 01-04-2015 09:37 PM and like 99% of the people in the thread absolutely disagreed with me when I was suggesting making a separate section for buying/selling stuff whether it'd be content or for crafters.


My how the times have changed.


Proof:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Addressed-This

I don't think you have actually read this thread

[zeth07]

I don't think you have actually read this thread

I'm not really sure what you mean? I definitely read this thread. People seem to mostly agree that something should be done about the PF with all those people selling content and how it disrupts the purpose of the party finder.


When I mentioned it, nearly every single person hated the idea of even adding an OPTION to separate the two types of things, not even saying that it shouldn't exist (it shouldn't) and people still gave me hell for even suggesting it.

Now here we are and other people seem to be in agreement that those types of party finders shouldn't exist. Just take two seconds to read the posts in the thread I made/linked and see the difference when I'm talking about quite literally the same types of things.


I'll even give a pass for crafters advertising / and static recruiting but even back then people were advertising selling content and it cluttered the party finder even before we got cross server and all those category tabs.


The excuse back then was that it was "Party Finder" and it didn't matter what they put since you could put anything in your comment and as along as the people who joined followed it it was a non-issue, which is what someone tried to reference a GM saying.


Maybe you didn't read the thread I linked? And just seeing what those people were saying in reference to basically the exact same scenario here.

[Kurando]

I made a thread about this very thing back on 01-04-2015 09:37 PM and like 99% of the people in the thread absolutely disagreed with me when I was suggesting making a separate section for buying/selling stuff whether it'd be content or for crafters.


My how the times have changed.


Proof:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Addressed-This

The difference is there was no Cross World Party Finder when you created this. This is effecting players all on a data centre and not just single worlds.