Arming yourself in the battle against LotRO gold spam

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Thankfully, while Turbine does indeed deal harshly with gold spammers/sellers like most companies, the real place where they/lotro stands out is not letting anyone with a trial account PM or mail anyone. This forces gold spammers to buy real accounts, which promptly get banned, forcing gold spammers to pay through the nose to "advertise" in LOTRO. Yes they can still spam a channel, but it's rare and since Turbine put in the the PM/Mail restrictions, I think I've had one PM and one mail advertisement for gold in about 6 months.

LOTRO's anti-gold seller tactics are by far the most superior I've ever seen. Completely blowing away AoC's and especially Mythic/WAR's (supposed) tough stance on the issue. Uh oh, I just criticized WAR...*sets up sandbags and razorwire in preparation for the inevitable onslaught of Abriael's WAR fanboy cannons.*

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No flame but I do have to say WAR is doing something right for the time being in the area of spam blocking.

Used to get a ton of spam for the first six weeks or so but about 3 weeks ago it just stopped. Its funny you could tell when they were starting to run filters as the spammers would shorten their spam and misspell words but seemed like WAR adjusted to that pretty quickly.

Maybe a reflection of the fact that there is no real reason to buy gold in WAR or maybe they implemented some decent filtering finally, something I constantly sent them feedback on. It was frustrating to report a spammer just to seem him still spamming many hours later.

Whatever they are doing now though seems to work quite well to block spam

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