Spammers/Gil Sellers

[Kelryth]

I forsee my /blist filling up with spammers/gil sellers

[AncientCetra]

Pushing this to the top once more. This is becoming more of a problem than 1017 or 90000 errors. Please do something to help at least make it easier to ignore them. Spammers are flooding the shouts and yells. I've had to turn off all but my party, LS, and FC chats.

[Koldos]

You guys have only seen 9 since beta? Maybe I should move to your server?

Malboro has literally a gold spammer in every section of every major city spamming nonstop with macros flooding out all the chats, each zone has a gold spammer sending everyone tells non stop and blacklisting them then reporting them is beyond tedious at this point.

I've actually developed a SYSTEM to save me time because I have to report so many. Today alone I blacklisted and reported over 10 gold sellers and every time I get a response from Square about 3 hours later that was an obvious cut and paste because its the same message that they are "looking into" these accounts....but its the same damn people almost every time.

It's not hard to get a moderator to ban people who are being jerks. Or...y'know maybe a chat system with a spam filter? Oh you sent 3 messages to shout in < 2 seconds? Ok so wait 20 seconds for your next one...slow them down at least! Let us USE our chat!

Edit: I'd gladly take back 2 hours of attempting to log in if I didn't have to be constantly hassled by gold spammers because they can't log in either!

Also a quick note for anyone reading this....at least for PC players. Press F1 to select yourself, right click your status bar at the top of the screen, select...change status or something like that then set your status to "busy" if you have issues with spammers directly messaging you like I do. It will stop all incoming private messages. This is LITERALLY the only thing I can do to slightly enjoy my time in game now....and I still have to blist/report all the shout spammers. But it helps...every little bit helps...the gameplay is so good here but I've recently messaged Square stating if they cannot even figure out how to stop spammers from destroying their game I have little hope for the future and will request a refund.

[Shannelle]

Bumping up request.

Sharing with others this tip I got from FC leader:
In order to block the one who last sent a tell, type the following:
/blist add <r>

The alternative if spammer is not the one to send last /tell:
/blist add "FirstName LastName"

Either case, you will get a prompt if you indeed want to block someone. Of course, it is still not easy to send a harassment report

Hope that helps.

[CrazyCanukk]

Agreed..100% agreed...................hell 1000% agree

Just saturday morning alone on Lamia I added 15 gold spammers in the afternoon more and Sunday even more....Reported everyone of them.

we need to help with this as i can say it ruins community interaction as its damn near impossible to have a conversation in chat with others and get to know people if i am chasing down gold spammers.

1) Give us unlimited blacklist and a right click block/report ** i would even have a separate option to block/report gold farm spamming (reason in point #2)

2) Autoban feature in the server that if (just tossing a number out) 250 people report the same account for Gold farm spamming the account is auto banned from the game/server entirely. If they want back in then they have to call CS and a CS agent can review the account and chat log associated with the reports (which we know gold farmers aren't going to do).

3) Maximum amount of lines per chat..say 4-5 lines or x # of words maximum...some form of control . These bots are spamming the chat with 20-30 lines of weblinks and doing it multiple times with in seconds. Its unfathomable an MMO would even release without some basic counter measures in place to defend against this kind of crap. i

[Kelryth]

Its unfathomable an MMO would even release without some basic counter measures in place to defend against this kind of crap.

I agree, It shouldn't be this difficult to block and report spammers. SE dropped the ball with this one. I hope they fix it soon.

[Lawpel19]

Agree also sometime hard to get there name since the chat screen moves so fast and if you scroll up it will automatically move when a new message.

[Kelryth]

Agree also sometime hard to get there name since the chat screen moves so fast and if you scroll up it will automatically move when a new message.

That's one of the things I hate about the chat. Sometimes you want to scroll up reread something but you can't because every new message automatically scrolls you back down.

[Kelryth]

Well here one way to not be bothered. You can disable the shout and yell channels and set yourself as busy. there you go no spam at all.

And on an unrelated note: What the hell is the word "As" filtered in game. I can understand ass being filtered but as? Honestly SE!!

[Darkpix]

Well they need a system...Yoshi said they had some secret method to catch botting in a Dev letter. Lets hope they have a secret for spammers. They should do something like if you send the same messages (certain number of characters or sequential words and/or key words), X amount of times in the space of X amount of seconds/minutes you get automatically moved to a spammer chat channel