Policy Change needed on "RMT & Services"

[blaen]

100% agree that something needs to be done. It's just blatant RMT being ignored by SE. Even certain world first groups allegedly participate heavily in these activities. We all know what these guys mean when they ask to talk only on discord.
Either officially allow this form of RMT or make advertising of sell runs that only allow communication through discord or other 3rd party programs/websites bannable and force discussion of gil payment to be in-game.

Currently this form of RMT seems to be implicitly allowed by SE.

[Hawklaser]

For discussion of what goes down, Voice is simpler and more convenient i will give you that, but if you look at all (the ones I've seen anyway) of these advertisements, they don't specify a any pricing in their advertisements, that why reporting them for "RMT" does nothing, as they arn't advertising RMT.

But going through discord means they can freely talk about pricing and exchange payment details without having to worry about being banned, as there is no evidence being logged by the servers through any in game chat methods.

If they were offering these services and only wanting payment in Gil, there is no issues advertising that or discussing the basics in game would there?

Here's the neat thing... there is this thing law enforcement does, known as "Stings" to find out about things like this. I'm sure something similar could be done to root out the RMT groups that use discord to bypass the server logs. Where an authorized SE GM or Special Task Force member goes along with the advertisements far enough to get to the discussion of pay, and if an option includes RMT, there is the proof needed to conduct relevant bans. Who knows, they may already be doing something like this but without being super familiar with the legal aspects to something like that, hard to say how long it would take.

[Sythen]

One can hope Hawklaser. One can hope.

Obviously the reason why they dont use external evidence is because it can be doctored. but one can only hope they are.

I can commend the Dev team by treating everyone the same, but they really do need to lift some of the restraints from the GM teams.