People wanting to report other players because of tiny vague emotes that they are interpreting as toxic intentions from players they know nothing about are having much bigger issues in life than mentioned emotes. Those people are exactly the ones that should not have any power over other players.
You are finding in others what you are looking for.
I agree with the mental part. But, since nobody is perfect, I think for the time being until that person is healthier it would be a nice thing for them to be able to auto-squelch in settings so they don’t have to worry about it. When they get healthier or older, maybe they will change their mind once they’re on your level. But I don’t see how it hurts other players for one specific player to block emotes from others. The other players can still emote for themselves and whoever else hasn’t squelched. Why wouldn’t anyone have the right to silence communication ONLY SPECIFICALLY to themselves in the privacy of their home or phone or computer, etc.
I’m just saying there is no harm to have this option.
There is harm to the option though, as it makes emotes pretty pointless. If everyone can just turn off the option to see them, why would the emotes exist in the first place? Emotes are the only form of communication with people outside your friends list, and to effectively take them away would make every game feel like you’re playing against a bot.
The way I’m thinking about your reply, if everyone will turn them off just because they can, then pretty much you’re implying a lot of people don’t want to see emotes. I don’t think this is the case. I think a small amount of people who don’t like them will use the feature and others will turn them on and off depending on their mood, while some won’t turn them off at all.
You are saying a cartoon pay to use emote can bother anyone ? If they have bad mood they should chill because BG itself is way more frustrating than the emotes.
Assertion after assertion that everyone should be like you.
No, it is no different than playing with bots if there are no interactions, who is even unhappy about this? Kids don’t even care. And what do I say to people when their eyes can’t stand the visuals? GET OVER IT it’s problems on you who hates looking at what is in a child’s book, if you have anger problems fix it first before playing a even more frustrating game.
Your whole posts sounds angry and frustrated at other people’s preferences.
Which people could prefer… And like I said, not everyone will squelch…
Who could even know?
This line doesn’t sound angry. 
People paid for emotes therefore I think only they can squelch it if it was used more than 5 times. If a short “hello” can hurt them, they need to talk to a mental doctor.
You might be right, but who’s jurisdiction is it that people are mandated to be mentally healthy? If there are mentally unstable people playing the game, then isn’t it a good idea not to trigger them? Or do you like mentally unstable people going out into the world being angry? There’s probably many people with mental problems playing, as this is a video game and very addicting.
Tailoring everything we make around ensuring we don’t trigger anyone with mental issues sounds like a solid path toward a virtually Orwellian society that blocks most forms of free expression/speech and “wrongthink” so as to avoid leading to any action that might “trigger” or upset someone.
Mental problems are a very real thing and are only beginning to get the attention they need, but putting baby gloves on every form of interaction is not the answer.
How is this tailoring everything? I’ve seen many people prefer this option… How is that baby gloves? As far as I know squelch only blocks the emotes incoming. It doesn’t stop anyone from emoting to others who don’t squelch. Am I missing something? Or do you guys really think that your preferences are superior?
It’s not everything yet, but it has to start somewhere.
It’s problematic on a philosophical level. Giving in to the demands of personalized censorship of the tiniest of interactions for those of a mental state that get triggered by something as simple as a BG emote is catering to such a low denominator that should it become commonplace, threatens to weaken society as a whole.
Superior on a philosophical level for the continuation of a strong society, yes. Maintaining a strong society mandates NOT contructing laws, policies, even features around the preferences of the mentally unstable.
Well, I would say that not wanting to see emotes because they are a distraction isn’t really unstable. It’s not censorship, because everyone else can still emote with each other. It only blocks incoming emotes to the person who squelches. Especially if they’re playing in their home, they don’t have to let anyone send them any messages of any kind. I do agree, they should stop playing the game if this is a problem, but also this is a very addicting game to quit. This would literally only affect the 1 individual squelching and would affect nobody else. Ignoring is also censorship, and people can ignore too. You just want to intrude on people in any way/shape/form you can.
It might be my general apathy towards Battlgrounds as a whole, but the emotes seem to be just a shred above meaningless. I don’t see any reason not to be able to toggle them myself.
Blizzard however, has made it quite clear even in recent Q&As that they actively want people to see emotes and regardless of how toxic anyone in the playerbase finds them, they see them as inherently good-natured (verbatim) and not problematic enough to warrant anything beyond per-match squelching in the cases of rampant spamming.
I don’t understand why folks are considering the end user option to disable receiving emotes to be equivalent to censorship. That’s a fallacious argument. Me being able to filter out things that I personally don’t want to see is in no way censorship of the people who are posting the things that I don’t want to see. Censorship is silencing your ability to say something, not my ability to ignore it.
Your desire to not see such inconsequential things to the point of requesting a feature that Blizz themselves have shown isn’t wanted for the game, by the very nature of its absurdity, makes it problematic to suggest devoting resources to meeting it.
All preferences are not created equally.
The only thing the emotes can bring is more meaningless emotes back. If you need a hello or a threat after giving out a hello, have fun. Yes, they won’t spend resources on it of course. It’s not a big problem. I’m just saying peoples’ preference for having emotes is not invalid or immoral or censorship.
Maybe don’t be such a sensitive flower.
This is where we’re going to disagree. A preference for something absurd or unnecessary becomes invalid the moment they expect someone else to spend resources to meet it.