For the love of god can we please have a keyword filter.

[DixieBellOCE]

Hiding links and names due to ToS.

But for the love of god, can we please get a filter or an automatic account lock/ban for these teleporting Hyur goldselling spammers?

I was in limsa for 2 minutes and i get spammed with this.



Not really acceptable for a billion dollar MMO company to let this happen non stop 24/7

How many blacklist slots do i have to use, they make a new spam bot every 5 minutes and its really tiring having to blacklist them constantly.

[LianaThorne]

Square's too busy with NFTs to care.

[weebtext]

Never should've gone to Limsa.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Never should've gone to Limsa.

I see them in Gridania too, so that doesn't matter much.

Sure, there's plenty of other reasons not to go to Limsa, it's a silly place, but.

[Gallywolf]

Yeah that'd be nice, it's why I've stopped hanging out in ARR zones. But, I think it's lala bots more than Huyr.

I don't want to be associated with the bots

[kevin_satron]

they should make free trial accounts bots to only can /say using auto translate

[Xuled]

Yes please. I’d love to add “toxic”, “elitism” and other words to the list so I know who’s worth playing with and who’s not

[Renalt]

This is why.

Buy free gil!

8uy fr33 Gil!

8uy fr33 g1l!

There is always a way to say the same thing and get around filters. Have fun trying to find EVERY single way around it.

[Packetdancer]

This is why.

Buy free gil!

8uy fr33 Gil!

8uy fr33 g1l!

I mean, it's worse than that. What you have there could actually be done relatively easily; strip all punctuation, convert all to lowercase, and then do a loose match where you do things like allow 'b' and '8' to match each other, '1' and 'i' and 'l' to match each other, '3' and 'e' to match each other, '4' and 'a' to match each other, etc. Do that, and all the lines you include above will return a true on a match for "free gil".

This code is not terribly hard; I've written it, multiple times.

The issue is that roughly five minutes after you deploy that code, the spam-bots have already adapted and are sticking other words in the middle of things, like "BUY MOOGLE CHEAP AT PVP-COW BARN DOTCOM! [ MOOGLE IS MONEY, REMOVE LIVESTOCK ]" or whatever, and at that point you're now well out of the realm of something you can write any sort of regular expression or lazy matching logic to parse.

It's a war of attrition, and worse, it's a war of attrition the developers will always lose. Because the RMT spammers literally make it their entire day job to come up with something new that will slip past automated systems, and the game devs have the entire rest of the game to do, so can't engage in endless cat-and-mouse.

There is always a way to say the same thing and get around filters. Have fun trying to find EVERY single way around it.

I just want Bayesian blacklists/whitelists. Is that so much to ask? Let me train the chatbox like an email spam folder. :P

(Yes, I am in fact aware it is absolutely too much to ask; Bayesian networks in an MMO chatbox would be ridiculous. Doesn't mean a lady can't dream of a spam-free paradise...)