There's nothing to click - it's not in chat, just an onscreen message @xxxx invites you to join a guild - blah blah blah'.
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There's apparently no way to report a player unless you can select him somehow in chat or clicking his avatar.

I couldn't find any report function in the menus. There may be a slash command but I haven't seen any documentation on those, I just know a few. /report isn't one of them.

I found a way to do it by typing /help.
It took me the same route

Tried /report (it seemed likely) - didn't work.

The gold sellers is this game are really starting to bug me, I've reported so many of them. I've been playing MMOs since WoW but I don't remember it ever being this bad.
If it's not chat spam it's about two to five personal messages every day & now today I've started to get this.

I thought it was someone having a joke at first until I got several of them.

Gold seller guilds ... they are organising.

Censorious wrote: »

I started this thread because it NEEDS to be a long discussion. They are getting increasingly devious at making it difficult to report them. We need to spread the word so that everyone knows exactly what to do.

I have not encountered a method for another player to communicate with me that does not have a "Report" option associated with it.

Guild invites end up in the (N)otification window. Press "N" or click on the glowing icon above the chat window to open. In the notification for each guild invite there is a check mark and an "X" to the right. Right click on the "X" to bring up a short popup menu. You may decline, ignore player, or report.

All forms of chat, including Zone, Guild, private, local, yelling, etc, can be reported right from the chat window by doing a right click on the name to bring up a popup. Select "Report Player" to report that player.

Email is the easiest as they have an option right on the screen to report the player that sent the email.

If someone is standing in front of you, pressing F will bring up a wheel of options that will include reporting the player. This does require some dexterity to mouse over them while they are still in range.

Please show some restraint and make sure that they are actually doing something wrong. Don't report people for annoying you when you are in a bad mood because you just got wiped by a boss. While gold selling is against the terms and conditions, a single communication about a guild is not spam and nothing in the Terms and Conditions prohibits it. Spamming actually requires repetition, and make sure that the guild is a gold sellers guild before reporting. Also, be aware that while reporting every situation that comes to your attention may make you feel you are making a difference, if you get too "enthusiastic" about reporting players in-game, that might be considered spamming and you may find yourself getting in trouble for "just trying to help".

Thesiren wrote: »

Are Zenimax and Bethesda just total online noobs then? I realize they've never done an MMO before, but somebody who works for them has actually logged onto one before, right?

They are quite obviously working on it and have been since Early Access. By some accounts, they are actively working on it too eagerly and taking down innocent people with the gold spammers.

It is clear they are working on two fronts. First, banning people reported by players. Second, writing software to detect and block them. This is an adaptive process that does not end until the gold sellers move on to something else.

lordrichter wrote: »

Please show some restraint and make sure that they are actually doing something wrong. Don't report people for annoying you when you are in a bad mood because you just got wiped by a boss. While gold selling is against the terms and conditions, a single communication about a guild is not spam and nothing in the Terms and Conditions prohibits it. Spamming actually requires repetition, and make sure that the guild is a gold sellers guild before reporting.

This is true and valid comment. But lets be clear about this. I'm talking about a guild invite that specifically and unmistakably includes a gold seller's url.
In my book, a single instance of such a communication is a breach of the ToS and since I have no option to select 'gold selling' as the reason for reporting, the nearest I can select is 'spam'.

So 'spam' it is.

Sarenia wrote: »

They're pouring money into purchasing games just for a short run of in-game spam.

This is actually unlikely. Possible, but unlikely.

Sarenia wrote: »

And as long as consumers keep fueling that market, it will just keep growing.

Let's be clear here. You do not need to buy the gold from the website for them to profit. If you even go there to look, you have given them the opportunity to profit from your visit. If you actually buy from them, well, you are their new best friend.

All of this is about getting hits to the website, even look-e-loos, and the outside chance that someone will actually give them money for gold.

A lot of the keys for these RMT businesses are bought with stolen credit card info. There was an article on this several years ago.

Alyrn_Grey wrote: »

Censorious wrote: »

I started this thread because it NEEDS to be a long discussion. They are getting increasingly devious at making it difficult to report them. We need to spread the word so that everyone knows exactly what to do.

Nah I don't think it needs a long discussion. The fact that the seem to be getting more desperate in their attempts to spam is indicative that they are being caught and stopped.

We are slowly winning this battle, If players and ZOS keep putting pressure on them. We drive them out of ESO yet!

Always report anyone who is trying to sell gold for real money. I do not report if someone send me a normal guild invite or trying to sell ingame item for game gold., but I do report all messages that try to get people to go to the "dark side" of the net web sites or try to get people spend real money for ingame items.

That add-on just auto ignore the gold farmer spam, but it still can be work around. ZOS is working on the problem and I do see less of them doing spam everyday.

gold sellers are one of the reasons I am going to move to console when it launches, they wont be able to do it much or at all on consoles

Thesiren wrote: »

k9mouse wrote: »

That add-on just auto ignore the gold farmer spam, but it still can be work around. ZOS is working on the problem and I do see less of them doing spam everyday.

Well, I was too put off by Curse's security history to go there anyway, but I have to disagree with you on the amount of gold farmers. At least when I'm on nights and weekends, they are overrunning the chat across every faction just like normal.

I do have to say that in this day and age, I'm surprised Zenimax wasn't more on the ball in curtailing this whole thing though.

Aside from their automatic addon update app, I can't think of an instance where Curse hasn't been a secure site or hasn't served up clean addons files for WoW. At least recently (8-9 years).

But for ESO, it appears that ESOui.com is currently the go-to site for ESO addons.