(08-31-2016, 07:34 PM)Arvid Greave Wrote: I still want to know what I should have been reporting. I cannot send in a reddit post as a proof. I cannot report an FC changing leadership. I can't report a discord conversation. I cannot report a voice conversation. There's no evidence there's nothing there. What should I have reported? What can we report as outsiders looking in? Anyone? Any ideas? What can we do besides not buy at all? As for me, I don't think not buying is an option. If I see someone selling a large plot for a price I can afford I will jump on that so fast my own head will spin.
..And you can send a GM to this post and nothing will get done.
I think, honestly, the best we can do is ask the GMs to do better. If they have an RMT team, well, they do, the RMT team SHOULD be looking at huge amounts of gil moving right? Why isn't that doing the trick? Maybe we could make a post on the official forums asking WHAT we can report? I mean damn, all they said is 'report it' but report WHAT.
Mostly simply the in game activity when you come across it. Usually helps if it is done based on something in game, but if you really wanted to you could report someone off of reddit or some other outside source if you know their in game details. Report does not launch immediate inquiry or action, it gets filed into a player's record and investigated later. The GMs don't need you to provide proof or evidence. In fact, in most cases, you can't simply with how easily most of that could be fabricated or skewed. The GMs have access to every trade, transaction, and thing you have said in game. They can find what they are looking for on their own, and will when they are looking into an issue.
The mistake here is expecting something dramatic to happen immediately, like someone being pulled into GM jail. That isn't going to happen in front of you 99% of the time. Cases where we have seen that happen are the exception, and usually come out of something glaring that the GM did not really have to investigate like a PF or Shout Ad that has been reported several times by different people.
