Plat farmer spam solution idea

[Kambuk]

How about this

If 5 people report a tell from a trial account as spam inside 1 day they get automatically squelched globaly untill an admin manually unsquelches the account after an valid explanation has been given for the spam.

Stops people being silly/vindictive and reporting their guildies who are on full accounts.

Stops legit trial users from being penalised by not being able to send tells.

Any thoughts?

Kambuk

[Impaqt]

How about this

If 5 people report a tell from a trial account as spam inside 1 day they get automatically squelched globaly untill an admin manually unsquelches the account after an valid explanation has been given for the spam.

Stops people being silly/vindictive and reporting their guildies who are on full accounts.

Stops legit trial users from being penalised by not being able to send tells.

Any thoughts?

Kambuk

And what stops them from simply starting another trial account?

[Amaras]

Currently the CAPTCHA system for requiring a human to register the account is useless due to the plat farmers outsourcing the creating to a third party company.

250k solved CAPTCHAs per day on a “$2 for a 1000 solved CAPTCHAs” rate

Taken from http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1835

[Spell]

easy fix..... before you receive a 'tell' you should get a pop-up msg with the following options:

+-----------------------------------------------------+
"Accept msg from (characters name)."
"Accept msg and add (character name) to friends list."
"Politely decline msg from (characters name)."
"Decline msg and Squelch (characters name)."
"Decline msg and Report (characters name)."
+-----------------------------------------------------+

Characters on your friends list would not cause the msg to pop up.
Also ...Add a new slash command "/telldecline (response msg)". To automatically decline a tell that would cause the pop-up to activate and reply to sender with a msg. Sort of like the "/AFK" command. This way you can turn off tells while you're in a quest and still be able to receive tells from friends.

[Amaras]

easy fix..... before you receive a 'tell' you should get a pop-up msg with the following options:
"Accept msg from (characters name)."
"Accept msg and add (character name) to friends list."
"Politely decline msg from (characters name)."
"Decline msg and Squelch (characters name)."
"Decline msg and Report (characters name)."

Characters on your friends list would not cause the msg to pop up.

Do you know how many **** tells i get a day from new people? Definitely not the way to go.

How about the devs stop RELYING ON THE USERBASE and do something productive on their own.

[Spell]

Sorry, Amaras... I went back and made a correction.
The "/telldecline" command would help with getting a lot of msgs if your case.