Guild Wars 2

I have a ridiculous number of people on my ignore list.. every single account name on it has found its way there because the account was used to spam gold-selling advertisements in chat.

But even as I placed these names on the list, I knew many of them were legitimate accounts that were stolen and being used by thieves. An example: I always think “well that stinks” whenever someone with a decent two-piece fantasy name is suddenly spamming chat with gold-selling advertisements. You sort of know that’s someone whose account got hacked.

As I add their names to the ignore list, I often find myself wondering how I’ll know when they no longer belong there. Sometimes people on my ignore list are listed as being online – are they the legitimate owners who have regained control of their accounts, or the thieves who haven’t yet been caught and kicked? Short of removing them from the list temporarily to ask them, I can’t see any way of knowing.

Just curious how other people are dealing with this, if at all. Or, are there any suggestions on how ArenaNet can somehow clean up names of accounts that were once compromised, but no longer are?

Just clear it and if something pop up start adding them again

Lt Latency.7415:

Just clear it and if something pop up start adding them again

That’s what I would do. The gold spammers are probably already banned by then anyway, and you can always block them again.