Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
RE: tell in duties:
I'd thought it was originally a technical limitation related to the fact that instanced content moves you to a different server and /tell <player name> <msg> could be ambiguous if there was someone in that duty with that name and someone else on your home world (possibly a friend or FC member) with the same name. But now that SE has already dealt with that problem as /tell <player name>@<world> <msg> in order to allow cross-world communication, it seems like it should have been enabled in duties as well as part of that update.
It's a bit of both. While the technical limitations were an issue at the time, that was also when Tells were the primary method of gil spamming. Many people had to move Tells to a different channel just to not have their chat bombarded by bots, since blacklisting didnt do much to alleviate the issue. While the technical limitations have lifted and gil spammers aren't able to send tells, mostly, SE was/is aware it could still be harassment if other players could do it while in a duty.