/Yell & Rmt counter measure

[EdenT]

At first I thought I wouldn't really mind this kind of feature. I would be the kind to engage in global randomness.

Fondly I remember Gysahl where many people used the Party Menu for recruiting members and people were proactive in setting their status in the Search Menu, using these functions to seek out and inform others. I loved having people just jump straight into party without needing to invite them and being able to recruit a specific setup, gathering at the content and having less work to do in recruiting, enabling focus on other tasks as a leader.

Ragnarok was a completely different story. I think this is heavily influenced by the demographic. I would never see Party listings, the occasional person would be seeking in the Search function and people would spam Ul'dah for great lengths of time in hope of finding their members. Ragnarok has a smaller population though, so this could also be a factor.

I think this highlights a reliance not only on the Developers and their tools but also effort in usage by The Community. The party search feature is useful and has a good foundation that could be strengthened by feedback and development.

I've been hoping for change in that when someone was invited by leader it would update the Recruit. You have to close and redo the entire recruit again if you use /pcmd to add a member. It sucks when you end up with more of a class/job than you asked for >_<;

I am fearful that adding a global channel will only drive more people to use that as a mechanism for party building as opposed to putting the small amount of effort Recruit & Search require to do it in a more efficient and functional way.

[Valmonte]

Why? No it wouldn't. Just have a little box that pops up before you send your report saying that you'll be suspended if you abuse report. No one would abuse it then.

that's like saying nobody will press the red button that states "do not press, will unleash feral cheetahs." ofcoarse people are going to press it.

that creates more work, so not only do you have to ban bots/RMT's now you have to temp ban bored people too. not only that but now you have to manage disciplinary actions based on the number of offenses for every non rmt/bot out there.

a Community GM is far more effective than any type of report function auto or not.

[Kraggy]

Like if a Gil Seller shouts in Uldah or /tells a player the game will message Square Enix Headquarters if they are using any combo of words. Once a Character seems to repeating these key words over and over they can be easily taken care over.

Im Sure few other key words can be added to the list.

I take it you've not played FFXI in a long time, otherwise you'd know that no filter on Earth is going to kill all the ways RMT find to obfuscate the text to avoid anything resembling filterable content, while at the same time still allowing a human to understand it.

SE's biggest problem here is the human mind's powerful pattern recognition abilities which extract meaning from what to even a sophisticated RE is little more than random garbage.

[Kraggy]

Ultimate solution: community enforcement. Right Click > Report Spam flags an account for spam and adds it to a temporary, session-limited ignore list for you. Getting X (50, 100, whatever) amount of spam flags prompts GM/special unit investigation.

This!

SE have to learn from Blizzard and make it EASY and QUICK to report RMT, and other players, engaging in 'illegal' chat, cheating, etc.

One of FFXI's biggest fails in the battle with RMT is the hugely inconvenient method SE require you to report cheating, you have to do it OUT OF GAME which means few people ever do I expect. Even reporting RMT spam is a pain and one I rarely bother with, give me a one-click solution and I'm perfectly willing to.