Again this is all irellevant to this topic. Looks like you the only one here showing emotions. So maybe you should stick to your own advice. Stick to the topic or go somewhere els. Your choice.
They want you to react to their hot button political commentary so they can hand you a pamphlet, but if I recall correctly, I believe 32 accounts is a new record for these forums.
I have no clue, I moved far away after the death of my husband.
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no, it’s old.
Red scares were early to mid 1900’s. While some are still afraid of the idea of “communism” the fear of a radical change of government hasn’t been as much a concern as it has been gradual changes. There was an outright insurrection that tried to overthrow the government 4 years ago – possibly creating anarchy or despotism – but many didn’t bat an eye at the event or implications and are, hypocritically, heralding the possible return of the instigator.
For many, they try to simplify stuff into binary concerns: left vs right, agree vs disagree, right vs wrong. So the assertion that “men were men” and “women were women” indicates a traditionalist view (skew right) with a fear of the left, or the perceived image of the “far left” thus being communism. However, since ‘communism’ is already the antithesis of the American democratic republic, it’s fairly redundant to tack on the “un-american” unless they’re shooting for xenophobic bigotry.
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Well, this devolved from what I was initially asking. Here’s what I’ve learned.
- Reporting is all AI/computer-moderated and possibly the “Abuse Chat” is the only one that is reliable.
- Anything can spark talks about politics and social issues anymore when all you wanted was a simple answer to a question.
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I think the inappropriate name reports are reliable, too, but the only impact they have seems to be changing the bnet name to “player.” I don’t think there are any in game consequences for the account.
I think it’s hard for a player to have any bulletproof evidence of whether or not the other reporting features work. My personal experience is that I have run into players that I’ve been reporting for weeks or months that are single handedly ruining games whether they’re on my team or the enemy team.
It only takes a few seconds to report someone, so you might as well if you actually think there’s a reason to.
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I don’t agree, there was only one poster is this thread who made the conscious choice to turn this apolitical topic, into a personal political rant.
As for reporting, I have had friends silenced, and two friends on my B.net friends list have been suspended for AFK/INT. They were both new players and died too often in ARAM, the point being, is yes, people are punished for infractions that aren’t chat abuse.
Many people have informed you already in this thread (and others), that B-Tags aren’t unique, and when players are punished for AFK/INT/Spam/Botting/Hacking, or anything other than Abusive Chat, those accounts receive a suspension. This means you won’t see any confirmation disruptive players have been punished when you are matched with them again after their suspension has expired. Also, unless you write down their full B-Tag (the numbers following their name tag), you can’t know for certain if they are the same player you reported.
4 posters have used a word that could be seen as “politically charged” — even if one is a mispelling. Less so about actual governance and representation and more so about people seeing the world in polarized extremes: agree/like, disagree/dislike.
Since politics are easily visibily scapegoats, simple binaries can reflect their “political” thinking, esp when finding something to blame in contrast to learning how something works.
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Was true before. Isn’t anymore. Like IRL, trolls are thriving. Blizzard decided to do so. Not us.
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First mistake. Why aren’t our accounts linked to past purchases eg. ?
I bought SC I, SC II, Diablo III, etc… they could have just STOP SMURFING for god sake! They knew if we paid once: all others should be erased. They wanted more money, they had trolls. STOP IT plz.
Everything else are greedy practices. They were GREEDY, they lost. And now HOTS is CRAP.
On topic: you cannot report trolls, you need to ERADICATE them (acid or fire for the ones who know). Every thing else mean a will to let them thriving.
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A friend of mine was suspended for 3 days late last year for “disruptive gameplay.” They were new to the game and died a zillion times in ARAM, so at least in this one case, I have proof the system works as they let me see the email they were sent.
As you’re already aware, I agree with most of your critiques of the report system. Whether by deliberate intent, or an unintended side effect, the report system seems to encourage toxic players to make new smurf accounts. So I agree, banning/suspending accounts isn’t a deterrent to persistent troll/grief players when they can simply roll a new account in less than five minutes.
Credit card means something, they could have used that. But they choose not to, to get potentially more money. They failed.
It’s also the lack of people wanting to report because they don’t want to “tattle” or that reporting is “for betas/cucks/other bs buzzwords”, so these people really do deserve their suffering since they won’t attempt to do the one thing that could end it and hold the player accountable.
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All reports in the universe wouldn’t end smurf issue man.
Linking accounts to a phone number or credit card, would probably help to limit the creation of new accounts. Personally, I wouldn’t trust Blizzard to keep my information safe, but it might reduce smurfing.
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Smurf issue won’t be ended ever. Just the reality of F2P games. Blizzard could put in measures (like requiring an active telephone/cellphone number, etc.) but that also reduces their potential playerbase, even with legit or valid players (non-smurfs), and they’re definitely not going to do it for this abandoned game.
I don’t even think smurfs are the big problem here (esp since this is a dying and abandoned game) when we have leavers, throwers, and afkers to such an extent that they’re essentially running the game now on their terms, and without even the slightest chance at punishment.
The thing is they thought they would reduce their playerbase, but in the end, they did reduce their reach in term of solvable playerbase with useless smurfs. I understand it wasn’t easy at the time to anticipate, but we are 10 years later now…
“Disruptive gameplay” is a blanket term Blizzard uses when issuing bans for various reasons including verbal harassment and chat violations. You can just do a search for disruptive gameplay and you can find cases where Blizzard agents confirm the ban was from chat violations and inappropriate language.
If I were a betting man, I’d place my money on your friend saying something inappropriate after being ridiculed for dying a lot.
Incorrect. The two fall under different tracks for punishments because chat abuses go through silences first while disruptive gameplay jumps straight to suspensions.
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Free speech will always win and the soy boys will always lose.
Work on yourself before you decide to work on others.
When my friend opened a ticket, the GM told him that he was suspended for dying too often, so there is no guess work in this instance.
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