Gold Selling Spams

[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.

[Greyhawk]

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.

I agree with not adding them to the blacklist, you would drive yourself crazy. About how long they last - not necessarily so, as ones I reported two months ago were still at it the other day, and they weren't even those 'screwed up seizure on a keyboard' name. But, I would love, love, love to see a chat filter we could use similar to what Black Desert Online has for their system. You have a registry to enter certain words that you don't want to see. Pick a word, add it to the registry, and you don't even see the entire message ever appear in chat as long as it has that one word. I usually add 'www.' which clears out of guild recruiting and 99.9% of the gold spam, then just a couple of other words that I can't put here, because it's the name of a site. Of course it can be used for more than this but just having this type of filter alone would make life so much easier on the community.

I really don't believe SE is proactive at all in gold bot/spam removal after seeing them over and over and over again. They aren't interested in trying to even put an effort into elimination, so they post their numbers to please whoever cares about that. I know it's next to impossible to eliminate, but you can sure make it harder on them by allowing both a client side filter and also applying a system to keep them from spamming it, and that would just take one person managing that. Hell, I'd do it for free if they'd let me.

[Nabril]

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.

It's not that hard to filter out the messages. There is a 3rd party app that apparently does a great job of it and I really don't think you're ready to make the claim that SE just isn't smart enough to figure it out if someone else can do it.