As always, I appreciate the candid response, but explain to us why you (GWL) haven't taken alternative actions to label suspected individuals as such? You can always remove the "suspected" label once they've quelled suspicion. Or does something like this also require a burden of proof? Also, why can you not just ban them and wait for the re-evaluation request to reinstate the person? I understand this sounds like a headache. I'm only asking for the sake of discussion / understanding.
Edit: To explain further, the point of a ban followed by a re-evaluation request strategy, in my opinion, would possibly result in the users giving up before even sending the request for evaluation. Sure, some might, but I doubt they all would. Who knows.
What do you mean howw can you know ?
You want us to make a list with PM's of them admitting to be reselling botted items ?
When someone is selling 200 echovalds or another guy is literally just spamming the forum with Q8 celestial shields, swords or another one is selling only Q8 gold items from NF that were thought to be almost unobtainable 1 year ago...
It is that simple for the most part. We are not experts in identifying it. And it takes more effort in an already time consuming task of moderation.
How do we define what is suspected or when they're quelled of suspicion? There are not expert traders in the Legacy team, just game fans and volunteers.
The same thing happened when ANet were told about the GvG botters; "maybe they're just very good players". Maybe these are just people that farm a lot.
If the trading/Legacy community wants things 'tidying up' then maybe there can be a concensus of how to treat / qualify posts that you can all help with to improve Legacy.
We had talked about limiting the number of items in a sell thread - this might at least slow people down.
I know some forums that require people have a certain number of posts before they can use Trading. Prevents new accounts and first posts being big sales.
If it was limited on x number of type of item?
Any other ideas?