If Blizzard consider YouTube as a potentially malicious domain I’d be genuinely surprised but, if they do, they should treat them like all the other domains that non-TL3 posters cannot link to / embed.
Anyway, the underlying code wasn’t what I was getting at but the content of the videos themselves. If the video’s content is objectionable (for whatever reason) surely allowing lower trust level posters to embed them into the forums makes less sense than only allowing higher trust level posters to link to them.
If I link to something objectionable, you only see it if you follow the link.
If I embed it, you saw it regardless.
I think they consider the risk of a malicious site clickable link greater than the risk of inappropriate content. Both are bad, but having malware/virus files spread is worse than seeing something.
If they genuinely thought that YouTube could be malware / virus infected, why would they allow any poster to link to it, regardless of their trust level?
If they don’t think that’s likely, why don’t they just add the domain to the whitelist of sites that TL2s can link to?
Wait, are we talking about someone posting a link to a keylogger?
Or are we talking about the Hearthstone forums, which were overrun by bots?
Because these are things I can understand. But something like a youtube link, or something like official Blizzard site, links like that should be perfectly fine.
I don’t even know what trust level I am. All I know is, that I have been posting on the Diablo 3 forums since late 2010, then when the new forums got implemented in Autumn of 2011 during the beta I also posted, as well as throughout the years since launch…
And I guess I don’t deseve lvl 2 or 3 or whatever.
I’m not saying, that people should be able to post adult content on a forum about a video games, but is such an offense worth a freaking ban, since Diablo games have always been for mature audience anyways?
if Blizzard considers their own sites such as a link to the armory, a link to an item from the game guide, or link to areatsummit (which is the official D2 guide), then might as well bring those sites down, if they are so malicious…
I am no expert, but I am pretty sure, that if something like youtube was malware, it would get exposed within a day or two. People would notice, the info would end up all over the internet.
Yes. Blizzard can get in legal trouble for not prohibiting that kind of content on a publicly viewable website.
The ESRB rating system is voluntary and rates for specific content coded into the game. In the case of D3 that is Violence, Blood, and Gore. The game is NOT rated M for sexual content so parents should not expect that in Diablo 3.
Further, the ESRB rating specifically says that online interactions are not rated (player interactions). Those have to follow the game companies standards.
Blizzard has one policy for ALL the games and forums when it comes to how we behave and it is very much family friendly.
I don’t know. This whole thing sounds an awful lot like Blizzard protecting themselves from the following scenario:
“Muh 18 year old kid daugher played a Blizzard game, but then saw Tracer’s butt, got herself a boyfriend and now she’s pregnant. I wanna sue Blizzard, it’s their fault!”
Honeslty, I never managed to wrap my head around the whole… crazy violence is OK, a bit of nudity is unacceptable.
With so many new TL3 posters, it was inevitable mistakes would be made
That said, I welcome our new TL3 overlords. I’d like to remind them there is a trusted Wizard forum poster willing to offer any help as needed on Diablo 3.
So are you this wizard of wizards? If so I have a question I shall post in there about my build and I’ll TRUST you’ll know something more than my couple weeks experience…
You are TL2. On your forum profile, Trust level: member = TL2. If you are TL3, it will say regular. Assuming that you have not been subject to forum/game suspension, you can get to TL3 by meeting the modified/new requirements.
Except some people can still spam stupid memes while useful links can not be posted by most people. Even non-clickable links require silly workarounds.
I think that posting memes tend to require TL3. I do recall a few threads that became quite meme heavy, but they were largely associated with PTR patch 2.6.7 and thereabouts.
Maybe. They rather made a dog’s breakfast of that patch. A lot of these patch series, to be fair. Balancing this game is a lot harder than I think, I guess.
but it smells so good!!!
