Quote Originally Posted by sasakusaku View Post
Anyways, no matter what filters/mechanics you put in to combat spam...those spam bot operaters will find a way around it quickly.
I dare to disagree, because SE has combated spam very effectively in FFXI. I hardly see spam tells/shouts/yells at all, and even when I do see the odd tell it's written in a way that's almost impossible to understand, so to bypass the filters. E.g. using variety of symbols/numbers to replace characters and things like "replace # with bro, replace %% with ".com"" etc. With a filter like that, I'm certain that the tells I'm getting now in FF14 will be 100% filtered. It still muddles me why they didn't bring such an effective system into FF14.