Gold Selling Spams

[LauNeit]

I have been playing this game for more than 2 month now, but everytime I want to enjoy some other player's performance at Limsa, I get this spam of 5gold site, it has been really annoying and my blacklist is filling up with those spam bots. Why didn't the game just ban all things related to that site, really I looked up this issue and I can find posts date back to 2016.

[KageTokage]

I'm not sure why they didn't just make the "report RMT" function temporarily blacklist anyone you use it on.

Pretty much everything related to RMT or cheating is handled poorly at best overall.

[Brightamethyst]

I'm not sure why they didn't just make the "report RMT" function temporarily blacklist anyone you use it on.

Yeah. They should take a page from WoW here. In WoW reporting someone for RMT puts them on a temporary blacklist and also removes anything they've said from your chat log.

[Jin-]

There is a plugin which automatically filters the bot messages. I'm not posting a link since it's not exactly "supported officially".
Works wonders for thousands of people

[Bsrking5]

Im sure this dates back to 2.0. Those bots are annoying but its easy to avoid if you want to by not going to the starting cities. Thats where they live and die at.

[Nabril]

Step one: Change /say to only have a very short reach when on trial account. If you're not within 10 meters of someone, you can't be heard.

Step two: ban all other forms of communication from trial accounts.

Step three: Add in filters to block the stuff they say.

That would stop a lot of this! It's sad that there is zero effort to stop these people from spamming.

[ReynTime]

Step one: Change /say to only have a very short reach when on trial account. If you're not within 10 meters of someone, you can't be heard.

Step two: ban all other forms of communication from trial accounts.

Step three: Add in filters to block the stuff they say.

That would stop a lot of this! It's sad that there is zero effort to stop these people from spamming.

Step two wouldn't affect the RMTers in any way but would make trial players kind of hate the experience.

[Rhus]

Step one: If you're not within 10 meters.

What is this “meters” you describe in your message?

[Greyhawk]

[Jojoya]

I have been playing this game for more than 2 month now, but everytime I want to enjoy some other player's performance at Limsa, I get this spam of 5gold site, it has been really annoying and my blacklist is filling up with those spam bots. Why didn't the game just ban all things related to that site, really I looked up this issue and I can find posts date back to 2016.

Because every time SE picks a character pattern in the macro to use to detect and filter out those messages, the site operators change what's in the macro to get around the filter. Maybe they replace . with , or O with 0 but they will do something to keep from getting blocked.

It's been rather amusing to watch the RMT messages of a certain gil selling website evolve into bizarre messages to share their sales pitch - and website address - over the months as SE blocks the old messages.

It's really not worth the effort of adding the spam bots to your blacklist - they don't last more than a couple of hours. It would be nice if SE were to add in a temporary ignore once you reported a spam bot but eventually you'll learn to mentally filter it out when it appears.

Best thing to do is not pay attention to your chat log if you're only there to enjoy someone's Performance. The Performance isn't in the chat log, after all. If the scrolling is distracting, hide the chat log. If you want to still be able to see tells, FC chat, party chat, etc., create a new chat log window that doesn't display /shout and /say and switch to that for the duration of the Performance.