Yea so i used to be a mod for another game. Not associated with blizzard and wouldn’t think of working for them ever.
I find it a tad comical that they remove my messages stating im a former moderator faster than any posts violating their ToS.
I’ve seen some weird stuff in my day but i gotta say last night was… something else.
You fool. It was never safe
That’s all? By how people talk about what happened without actually saying it, it looked like someone posted gore or something like that here…
My god, some people…
The regularly scheduled program of… nothing?
Am I missing something here?
What this doesn’t even make sense imho
Mooshy, how you doin?
Thought presencial school was gonna be more fun
For some reason I’ve been afk for 7h hours on those days, pretty boring IYAM
Everything else is good how are you?
then read again, I know you can do that.
They’re a complete lost cause.
Even prior to the lawsuit i had encounters that were…less than ideal which is why if anyone’s really noticed my behavior towards their comments and postings are …more direct and abrupt let’s say. I was what you’d call a fan boy. I’ve gone to all the midnight launches. Every single one of them. From diablo to WoW.
Then overwatch. And it’s EULA and TOS. And
Tigoles attitude towards slightly tougher players and his willingness to cause them mental anguish.
That disgusted me.
Especially knowing a few folks in the gaming industry. (Not naming names)
At this point i make no secret i am displeased of how i, others have been treated. So it was truly not surprising to hear about the lawsuit.
My heart really does go out to the people involved.
The only reason I’m sticking it out is that i have some small hope that MAYBE come OW2 things will be …dare i say balanced a bit more?
I could obviously be wrong…FEEL FREE TO COMPLETELY DELETE this post as you usually do.
Send my regards to Josh, Andy if you read this and my other former colleagues that are now on the “we don’t know this guy” bandwagon…
Rolls eyes well. That was a rant and a half.
Squint actually does make me seem tinfoil hat-ty… anyway im not crazy despite the name i swear!
did i miss something?
Yes. Troll necro’d a bunch of old threads and disrupted the forums for a while last night.
Cleanup is part of a moderator’s job description. Good forums help automate this process. Discourse - not particularly good at this though.
yikes, i know a bunch of times people tried spam necro’ing and it didn’t work, but it sounds like it got really bad.
Hey everyone, I was told by Blizzard that they took care of that… mess. Hopefully this night will be far more peaceful for you all.
Sorry I have not been on much today. I am dealing with some personal matters and needed some time alone. Cheers everyone.
Oh no… nothing at all…
Basically the top 1-300 posts were all the same person as the last reply. If anyone would respond they would start necroing that persons posts. They also spammed any other threads with a giant cut and paste of inane text.
It went on for at least 5 hours with nothing done.
agree or disagree, that person showed how little this place is monitored or moderated during “off” hours and how very vulnerable it is.
Interestingly enough my ticket direct to CS was replied to with a notification they were getting an excessive amount of tickets at the time… so maybe it was planned that way.
Yeah, I noticed they were so thorough they left the dude with -18 posts 
Just as a future heads up, avoid sending in a ticket through the customer service portal for matters that deal with the forums (with the exception of any real-life threats). Its actually faster if you try to invite me to a topic as I will see it in my notifications.
I was out of flags and the forums as they were became just unreadable. I waited 5 hours in total before going out of forums. I tried to do SOMETHING. This was after you had responded btw, because I waited an additional 2 hours after you did since maybe your connections were better. However the “attacker” got bored before anything was done.
I get it. They can only pass on the feedback and it clogs them from other more relevant to their job things. But it was becoming a desperate situation.
Either way the whole episode needs to be held up as an example of neglect of the forums. I KNOW everyone flagged the heck out of the posts… yet it continued for hours.
This may sound controversial coming from me “the forum MVP,” but I am in the opinion that the concept of message boards/forums as a whole is an outdated concept in terms of online communication and behavior from whoever was responsible for last night’s ruckus is proof of that. I mean we could debate on end about forum tools, AI, and other features this or any other forum platform needs to function better, but is it worth the time and investment from Blizzard (or any other entertainment company, not just video games, for that matter)? Remember as AndyB pointed out recently, forums are only used by a very minor percentage of the overall community.
So let’s be clear that if something like that nonsense was going on, my advice to everyone is log off and spend your time doing something else. When you try to make a deal out of trolls and spammers you are only fueling the fire they are trying to start. They are trying to get attention, but only do so in a way that negatively hurts the community and does nothing to positively impact whatever IP they are participating in. Even if it was with any perception of “good intention,” such as the AriaRose forum raid incident.
Understand I am not saying this to simply dismiss the behavior of such users, but remind everyone that there are better things to do than to stress over a message board forum.
