Originally posted by Ramonski7

I meant no insult in my curiosity into why AernaNET added a new option under the reporting feature. Just playing devil's advocate a little and looking for a genuine discussion to boot.

 

Gaia_Hunter: I never heard of AernaNET's instructions to report gold selling as anything specific before.

 

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates/Archive_1

Thursday 6th.

And some tweets.

The title and the contents of the thread make no sense at all.

They added a seperate option for "Selling Gold" to make it a HIGHER priority, not lower. Wether you used Spamming or Scamming as your method of reporting before, gold sellers are mixed in with people actually spamming and annoying other players, and people scamming eachother in trades. Lumping them all together makes it much harder to filter out the gold sellers and take care of them quickly. Having a seperate "Selling GOld" option puts them all in 1 seperate place where they can instantly confirm that it is a Gold Seller and ban them quickly.

Originally posted by spitfire1064

"A wise man has something to say, But a fool just has to say something." 

 

Practice what you preach.

Exactly. The irony of the OP wasn't lost on me either. :)

Originally posted by Psychow
I always reported gold sellers as "Spamming"

I did the same

goldselling is better reason than spamming

Originally posted by Uhwop

How is selling gold a scam? 

Scam:n.
A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.

tr.v., scammed, scam·ming, scams.
To defraud; swindle.

 

 

 

 My reasoning for reporting ALL gold sellers as scammers was because they were using HACKED accounts to sell the gold.

every little things needs its own topic here.

Go google: What does scamming mean?

Think of what do gold sellers do? they give you gold for ur money

figured it out why theres now another option?  maybe arenanet tought it was fancy?.... .. . . .. . You answered it youtself "to me its scamming"   and to arenanet it seems they dont feel like that.

What reasoning led you to think that separating gold selling from other forms of spamming/scamming means Anet is making it a lower priority?  My initial reaction is that they are making it a higher priority by being so specific and not just grouping it under some vague umbrella term.  I could understand your reasoning if gold selling was a separate option that they rolled into scamming/spamming, but they did the exact opposite.

Or were you just trying to get people to come to your thread with an eye-catching title and convoluted post?

Originally posted by Homitu
The answer is simply that the other options were not specific enough.  People were reporting gold sellers with the "spamming" option as well as the "scamming" option.  As a result, deciphering what the report was actually about probably took a little more work than was necessary.  If all gold selling reports get filed neatly under a gold selling category, there's no additional sorting work that needs to be done on Anet's end.  

 And the winner of the thread is right here. ^^^^^^^^^^^