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Contents 1 Gold Sellers 2 Same District 3 /report updates 4 Reporting Goldsellers 5 Factions Starting Bots -- They're Back! 6 /report - leeching 7 Reporting Guild Names 8 Rage quitting 9 How do you report for inappropriate language? 10 "This account is hacked."

[edit] Gold Sellers

Which /report category does this belong to? I tend to use the spamming category if the sellers announce their services several times by the time I reach the Xunlai chest.

Go to international district in any major city at night - they'll be there.

I've also done the screen capture/NCSoft support site route, but it's rather disruptive to ongoing game play. 71.29.77.98 09:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Gaile responded to this question on her talk page, and she said spamming or botting works, whichever you feel is better. - anja 09:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Which are now handily on this page, thanks to Gaile moving them :) Biscuits 13:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Same District

Should it be noted that you can only report someone if you are in the same district, because I tried reporting someone who was whispering me a message for some online gold buying site only I couldn't since he was in another district. -- Broodling 02:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] /report updates

→ moved from User talk:Gaile Gray

Lol gaile i belive i have said this a thousand times.... Will there be an update to add (to /report) [Goldseller, spammer, real world trader.] Thanks, as well you haven't been on since the 1st (or your logs just havent) [In Game]68.151.27.108 07:57, 27: January 2008 (UTC)

have u ever tested wow? i've tried a 10 day account, made an undead priest and entered their hometown or what it was, everyone report spammed each others 24/7, it really failed, it was just to u know klick on a name and a list came up showing report right over the name, i really dont want that to happen with gw --Cursed Angel 12:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Spamming is already one of the options...And isn't goldselling and RWT the same thing? Have one or the other, not both. Also, an option for scamming would be nice. Sora267 15:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Tryed WoW...and i dont like it period..just keep it at that.

There can't be one for scammer as well it involed your action. But you can always send a support ticket...

That's correct. Scamming requires more information than a simple /report and should be reported via an official support ticket. -- Gaile 23:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Gold selling is selling cash. RWT is like....people trying to sell GW accounts for RS accounts.68.151.27.108 21:53, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

right, just under a day i got 4 bots sending me messages about buying gold, its getting worse --Cursed Angel 22:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes i know it is, i go to ANY intertown and boom! gold seller spam like crazy. And with the growing amout of topics om guru and the wiki's i think its time for anet to take some serious action. On a legal level may i note. As im serious getting tired of a growing ignore list, spam and talk about this! MAKE IT END! 68.151.27.108 05:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't see why report spamming would be a problem. The purpose of the report system is to provide a fast, efficient way to alert GMs of inappropriate user conduct, making the investigation and banning processes more efficient. Since abuse of the report command is a violation of the rules of conduct, anyone who repeatedly abuses the report command likely to get banned. -- Gordon Ecker 05:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) As I have mentioned in the past, and chose to mention here because the topic title is more informative, you can use "spamming" as the reason until "gold selling" is added as a reason, if and when that happens. -- Gaile 23:15, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I personally would like to see the ability to report someone not in your disctrict, like /report <player name>. I just mapped out from GToB after being there for about three seconds, and received three whispers after mapping out, meaning I can't report said person unless I map back, look around for the person in question, select said person, do a /report, and hope that the person doesn't map out before I'm done. — Galil 17:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reporting Goldsellers

→ moved from User talk:Gaile Gray

Recently in Great Temple, every time I zone in, I get a PM from a goldseller advertising. Since they're not spamming me and just send ONE PM, I can't report them for spamming. Should I report them for spamming, verbal abuse, or am I gonna get ------ over if I report them ingame? Sora267 23:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

That is spamming. They are sending unsolicited messages, probably on mass to anyone in the district. It's like the spam you get via e-mail. I don't think you'd be penalised for reporting that. Biscuits 00:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I've been reporting them for botting, since they certainly have to be. It's always right when I enter a zone and it's just way too quick for it to be a human.--Murdoc the Mad 01:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Botting and its 1 PM per about 7 mins...its anoying. 68.151.27.108 05:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

i got one of thses PM's in a Dungeon the other day i looked at it went what the hell it has been happeneing a lot recently aswell its quite annoying why would this be happeneing and gold sellers suck, well thats my 3 cents right there --Wild rituals 11:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I got one recently, I reported it as spamming, as it seemed like the most appropriate category. -- Gordon Ecker 11:16, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Can u have the player/seller in your whisp section and /report them? as i was 2 levels down Cof and couldnt see a way of reporting them??--Wild rituals 11:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Report as "spamming" now, even if they're whispering. We're looking at adding a "gold sales" option to the /report system, but in the meantime, "spamming" is probably best. Thanks for your help! -- Gaile 19:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I sat recruting for my guild in shing jea last night and kept repeatedly getting the same message "go buy our guild wars gold b;ah blah etc ect" after reporting him/her/it another one replaces it almost immediatly after that one stopped and i was still getting the message from the new one. i could tell a lot of people were getting annoyed at having a longer ignore list than freinds list these days --Wild rituals 00:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey I have a question its regards a friend in gw of mine that told me that he is helping guild wars by stealing the gold of the people who buy the gold offline therefore making them never buy gold again, is that a good way to help or is it just as illegal? --Count Vidal 19:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Abusing other players -- no matter the supposed "justification" -- is wrong and can and will result in account action such as a block or ban on the account of the person doing it. We will deal with gold buyers. Player can help with reports. Players should never try to extract justice or enforce the User Agreement -- that is the task of our Support Team. -- Gaile 18:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I just used the NCsoft support site to report a pm spammer, and got an immiediate response saying approprate action had been taken, and sure enough when I logged in, the guy was gone. However, because he spammed me using a whisper, I had to go through the process of using the website rather than the /report command. It would be really useful to us players if you could remove the district restriction on /reporting, so we don't have to exit the game. Ashes Of Doom 22:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

To be honest I am a pretty fast typer to type /report Name and I use a pretty good computer with a really above average connection... and at the speed I got nailed with a gold spammer they are being smarter now because it is not possible to have got me and switched districts. There is one character that is probably sitting in a district and that one collects names and saves it and the other system picks it up on another character sitting anywhere in the game and just spams out mass whispers. This way you can only nail one account and they can keep the others for watching easily. Probably using a packet sniffer to filter out the packets with the names in it when someone joins a district and saves that to a database then the other bot can just pick it up and whisper it out.... Really annoying... I often whisper back at them "reported" just for fun Chik En 23:46, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

ok.. its getting bad. I cant stay in balth temple, shing jea or kamadan without getting continuous messages from gold sellers. reporting them doest get the problem solved right away, since they just message you again after a few min.. and believe me my ignore list is FULL! ive even deleted some friends to make room.. please can we have a more reliable solution, its becoming ridiculous. mabey more mods that rotate shifts in the most effected towns. I'm also sure they are using a bot program to automatically target people in towns and go through them one by one. Inquisition

Agreed. Always seems to be the same address too.... — Galil 17:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Anet needs to add a "Bad Advertising" option to the report system, It would look like "Use this option to report people who are advertising anything forbidden by the EULA, such as trading in-game items for money. Misuse of this feature can result in your account getting suspended." For example, if someone advertises a Runescape account for 100k, you can report that person under this category. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:71.181.4.25 (talk).

[edit] Factions Starting Bots -- They're Back!

→ moved from User talk:Gaile Gray

Gaile those angry mob of bots is back (but not in the huge numbers) at shing jea inter d1.And american shing jea d1 holds a whipser bot....68.151.27.108 20:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I've set up a Botwatch page to make reporting bot hot spots, and heavy advertising spots, too. -- Gaile 19:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] /report - leeching

→ moved from User talk:Gaile Gray

Hi gaile. I was wondering why it is that the "leeching" option is only available in pvp areas. It happens just as often in pve, and is no less annoying. for example, I was in a party yesterday for mallyx - the party leader went afk shortly after the start. none of us noticed till after we beat the mobs. we waited 10 minutes after that and finally came to the conclusion he was leeching - but none of us could report him because leeching wasnt a valid complaint outside of pvp. Does anet have any plans to change this? Cheers Terra 23:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah that would be useful or the ability for leader of group to kick someone or at least voting option.Have been in groups where was one annoying person and would love to be able to kick them out! But also would be useful where people have lost connection,rather than wait for 10 mins could kick after a few mins.--Dan Mocha 15:08, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

First, it doesn't seem that it would take too long to notice that someone was leeching in a PvE mission. I mean, they'd not be moving, right? I'd suggest that the best answer is to wait a minute or two and reform a group, if you think that the alleged AFKer is actually a leecher.

In the larger picture, the ability to kick members can bring huge social consequences -- and more than a little ugliness -- to a game. Having a guild leader opt to boot someone out when that person just happens to get a reserved rare drop, or having a vote system that allows the group, as a whole, to abuse another group member with removal from the group for similar unpleasant reasons is a very risky element to add to the game. I do not anticipate that we will add a "leader boot" or "vote to boot" system. We've been asked about it in the past but have declined to do so. I will ask if we intend to add the ability to report for PvE leeching, but quite honestly I think that's rather unlikely, too. -- Gaile 01:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually Gaile, I have often had people go afk mid mission for precisely the reason that once people reach a certain amount of time invested they dont want to give it up and would rather go on in a smaller group, giving the leecher a free ride. In the mallyx example above, the guy stopped as soon as he was sure we were all busy fighting and wouldnt notice. We invested time, a consumable set and considerable effort to get to the point when we noticed. We didnt want to give this guy a free ride (and probably couldnt have done it with 7 anyway - he was a monk) and so had to leave - forfeiting the consumables. I think the least this guy deserved was a report, dont you agree? but, to our extreme frustration, we couldnt report him accurately, and we lost out whilst he just went back to town to try again. I think because of this there is an argument for a leeching report in pve. Terra 18:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I think their should be a report for leeching in PvE as its incredibly annoying, however i agree that no kick system should be introduced as it just opens the flood gates for griefing. I think accrusing dishnour so at least preventing people from repeating this over and over again would be beneficial to the PvE community as ive gotten to the end of several missions and got my team to resign and leave due to leechers, thus has happened at the end of urgoz and the deep to me and also in killer missions such as eternal glade and the incredibly frustrating bastion, but I would rather quit with my team than give the person a free ride to protector, at least if we could report him we would feel like he was punished in some way. -- Salome 17:58, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Leech reporting in PvE would be of great help... As for the kick voting: I'd suggest a system where all drops until the kick voting belong to the kicked person, but: 1.) don't reserve any more drops of monsters killed by the rest of the group to the leecher, 2.) do not give EP to the leecher for monsters killed by the rest of the group, 3.) in case of a mission, don't let the leecher get the mission success, and 4.) if the rest of the group /resign's, they should appear together in the outpost where they started without the leecher in the group instead of leaving one by one. If you do it like that, there is no possibility of misuse. Also it would decrease the amount of time to regroup after a failed mission. -- BuffyS

[edit] Reporting Guild Names

Is it even possible to report a highly offensive guild name? There ought to be a way to report a whole guild for its name, and hopefully end up with the name being changed, or the guild disbanded in extreme cases. If a character names himself "kill the (insert racial slur here)" he gets reported, and either banned or name changed. If a guild names themselves the same way, nothing can be done about it that I know of... does anyone else see the issue here?72.161.108.174 22:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes I see some pretty offensive HoH winner names...although most of the time they make me laugh, you're right. MiraLantis 22:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

If you read the article, there is a link to support, where you can pretty much report anything you like. Biscuits 12:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah but the whole reason for introducing /report was (presumably) that very few people were doing so and violations were going unpunished due to the difficulty of reporting. Cynical 16:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Out of subject: Lol you're right, the guild names are sometimes funny. "We Quit Our Day Jobs vs. C A S T R A T I O N". Ninjas In The Sky 18:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

-Note: Deleted something I have said, plz do not recover here.- Ninjas In The Sky 18:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

You're not supposed to remove content from talk pages, even if you posted it yourself. Just don't post it in the first place. ;) Biscuits 21:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rage quitting

How do you report for rage quitting?^_^ --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:18:16, 3 June 2008 (talk).

You can't. That's taken care of by dishonour. :) Biscuits 09:11, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How do you report for inappropriate language?

In a lot of outposts there are people talking trash(Shing Jea, GToB, etc). There are a lot of them who use inappropriate language that is clearly against the EULA, but they are not being abusive. Furthermore, most of them don't "spam" it, so I cannot report them for spamming either.

Please add an option to report for inappropriate language.

The definition would be:

"Use this option to report people for inappropriate references if they are not being abusive or spamming. Misuse of this feature may result in your account being suspended." --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:22:27, 17 June 2008 (talk).

Dude, GWs is a teen game, if you want to report people for swearing, play RS or just turn on your language filter on under options, if your really that pissed about it, why are you still playing? ╙─ ╠Dogzrdogz╣ talk

There is a section for reporting verbal abuse, check part 3 as it still covers foul language which offending or not is still not very nice, here it is below...

3. Verbal Abuse Reporting a player for verbal abuse sends a notification to the GM team. GMs may conduct a careful review of that player's behavior. If a player is found to have engaged in verbal abuse in violation of the Rules of Conduct, that player's account may be banned. T1Cybernetic 09:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "This account is hacked."

Two minutes ago a guy wrote in the german chat "this account is hacked". I reported him for Spam because I didn't know for what I shall report him. Hope it was ok. --84.60.42.2 23:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)