Is it common to have tons and tons of names on your blacklist?

[SannaR]

I have probably 100? Most are Rmts that I do clear out from time to time. Others are people who like other have said are people who've spammed a macro with a call. I don't need to be told that new nodes are popping up 5 times in a row by the same person. Others get on there cause they were disruptive at a party. Had three people at a server wide glamor contest that felt like spamming a certain no longer can be done by the player DRG jump. They even said that their FC leader told them to be disruptive. It's that kind of behavior that gets people onto my list. Or people who have actually harassed me in game by following me around and using the trade command to stop me from teleporting. Doing so faster than I could put myself on busy at times.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I only have 1 person on Block, and thats because they were being a Creep.
Otherwsie, there is no reason to have 100+ people on block....RMT? Psh, thats easy to ignore. If you just want to talk to your friends...we have Linkshells.
Or I think you can disable Shouts in the Chatbox, as most of these RMTs use Shout.

You have the tools, and it really bothers me how people just dont use them.

[SamSmoot]

Mine is loaded with RMT and nightclub spammers.
However, I found an easier solution: I just switch my chat mode to Battle when in the city, so I don't see any chat activity at all.

[Renalt]

I've more people blacklisted here than in game. I've a number in game but only...like 2 of them will stay on the list. The others would be RMT or nightclub spammers.

[Jessica_VS]

I have nobody on my blacklist. Little bothers or offends me, and I mostly play with people whom I know and like.

[Limecat]

At one point I was regularly close to maxed out trying to make the gil sellers shut up, and would rotate out removed characters to make space. That got tiring though, so I started ignoring them as unavoidable. These days I still have a lot of people on the blist, but it's all serial FC/venue/etc spammers. Since those are real people being annoying, the duct tape sticks and I have my peace.

[TaleraRistain]

I've got 29 and I think some were venue spammers that were particularly obnoxious about it. A few were a premade where my co-healer bailed after the second Ridorana boss and they refused to kick them, making me solo heal through the next two and when I mentioned the vote kick failed in alliance chat, one of them went "Snitches get stitches" in party chat. Their friend magically came back just in time for the final boss. So they'll stay on that list forever while I'll probably clear others off since those characters may have moved on by now.

I don't really have judgement if someone has a lot of people on their list. They just have people they don't want to see things from so they're using the in-game tools.

[Fyrebrand]

Mine is completely empty but I never build friendships in game to begin with and couldn’t care less about what someone might yell around me

Same here. I just play the game and do my own thing. I used to blacklist RMT spammers, but there is literally no point since it seems to be a different account every day and I don't spend that much time idling in town to care. Just report and be on my way.

Very occasionally I'll see some problem behaviour being shouting in map chat, but even then I don't blacklist. Annoying or not, I prefer to be aware and not blind to what's going on.

That said, I've seen some threads about players who have serious issues with targeted harassment and stalkers, and Blacklist does almost nothing to help them out. I think the feature needs to be strengthened in this regard.

[SeiyaSoiya]

It's difficult to have a real discussion when you poison the well like that.

how is that poisoning the well?
people who have many pf people blacklisted are terminally online and need to seek help