dirges the Irrelevant wrote:
Couldnt they make it so that certain word combos, like the gold seller websites name, be prompt for immediate attention by a GM. I also dont see why they couldnt track the tells. If someone reports a tell, they should have a time stamp, and be able to check what account sent the violating tell, and ban it. Yeah it wont stop the problem, but if it costs them more money to sell it is a good thing.
I've suggested somthing to that effect in my petitions and /feedbacks. They have a toggleable profanity filter that munges curse words in chat channels. I don't see why they couldn't have a toggleable spam filter that munges things like known plat selling domain names that we see over and over (vicsale, gmworker, etc.) or the *option* to have a /tell pure whitelist (the option to auto-reject tells from people not on our friend lists, for example). Something we could turn off when we are like, looking for pickup groups for example.
It's not an unsolvable problem. They have complete control over the environment and if they wanted to put for the effort, they could quash it.