RMT

[Fhqwghads]

Why am I paying a subscription and doing SE's job for them by having to report RMT and blacklist them? Every day I report/BL dozens of accounts. Let me help you out. Ridding this game of RMT spam is incredibly easy.

Set up a regular expression looking for spam in the /say channel (since these accounts are always new they can only use /say.)

I'll even give you the regex to use:

/www\.mm[o|0]ah\.c[o|0]m.*buy.*gil/gmi

Duplicate and modify the above for all the other typical sites and permutations of text they use.

If the regex detects this string, more than 10 people report & blacklist the account and the account is 3 months old or less, the system automatically suspend it. This way the number of people affected by RMT spam is greatly reduced, and I won't have to constantly feel like I'm doing SE's job for them.

[TheOperator3712]

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and if more than 10 people report/blacklist the account, automatically suspend it. ...

That certainly couldn't possibly be abused. /s

[Mikey_R]

Silencing the bots does nothing to stop the underlying problem of the RMT farming.

[Fhqwghads]

That certainly couldn't possibly be abused. /s

You took what I wrote out of context. All 3 conditions must be met for an automatic suspension: the regex script finding a match, players blacklisting and reporting RMT. There is little to no possibility for abuse, unless someone does something malicious like get someone to type into /say a phrase that would trip the regex script, and then convinced 10 people to report and blacklist a targeted person. When the targeted person contacts customer service, the paper trail will surface malicious reporting, unsuspend the targeted person and instead suspend the participants in the wrongful suspension.

[Fhqwghads]

Silencing the bots does nothing to stop the underlying problem of the RMT farming.

I agree, but at least it will take care of the issue where the onus is 100% on the players to report and blacklist them.

[TheOperator3712]

You took what I wrote out of context. All 3 conditions must be met for an automatic suspension: the regex script finding a match, players blacklisting and reporting RMT. There is little to no possibility for abuse, unless someone does something malicious like get someone to type into /say a phrase that would trip the regex script, and then convinced 10 people to report and blacklist a targeted person. When the targeted person contacts customer service, the paper trail will surface malicious reporting, unsuspend the targeted person and instead suspend the participants in the wrongful suspension.

That sounds an awful lot like WoW's system, which gets abused all the time. If you provide people with a way to punish other people, they will maliciously use it. You'll also find that bots makers are very creative and will just get around your regex script by changing what they say. It's a never ending game of whack-a-mole. If you really want to stop this problem, there has only ever been one solution, to stop the demand.

[Taliriah]

Why am I paying a subscription and doing SE's job for them by having to report RMT and blacklist them? Every day I report/BL dozens of accounts. Let me help you out. Ridding this game of RMT spam is incredibly easy.

Set up a regular expression looking for spam in the /say channel (since these accounts are always new they can only use /say.)

I'll even give you the regex to use:

/www\.mm[o|0]ah\.c[o|0]m.*buy.*gil/gmi

Duplicate and modify the above for all the other typical sites and permutations of text they use.

Seems robust. RMT spammers would never be able to work around that.

[Fhqwghads]

That sounds an awful lot like WoW's system, which gets abused all the time. If you provide people with a way to punish other people, they will maliciously use it. You'll also find that bots makers are very creative and will just get around your regex script by changing what they say. It's a never ending game of whack-a-mole. If you really want to stop this problem, there has only ever been one solution, to stop the demand.

I just explained how it would be difficult to abuse my solution, and if people try to abuse they're the ones who would get suspended.

[Fhqwghads]

Seems robust. RMT spammers would never be able to work around that.

Not sure if sarcasm, but your post reads like it. If you are being sarcastic, it's not about making a system impervious to RMT (though that would be fantastic). It's about making playing the game better for players.

[Mosha]

I just explained how it would be difficult to abuse my solution, and if people try to abuse they're the ones who would get suspended.

Or we can just not go down the path of using a system that can be easily worked around and abused by malicious actors. I like that idea more.