Why are people getting banned for swearing? Literally everyone is talking about how awful the idea of it is, and its making this game worse than it already is. Saying things like the F-word and S-H-word is common in most games, and people in those games dont get any punishment. This isnt roblox, us overwatch players (the majority) are mature people who are above the age of 13 and you needa get rid of this crap, blizzard.
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The reason is likely because they are swearing. Not entirely sure about that, though.
I highly doubt that.
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Because itâs always been against the rules to use profanity in Overwatch. Hell, in any Blizzard game.
The question should be: âWhy canât people control themselves and feel like they need to use profanity when itâs unnecessary?â
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Sounds like something a blizzard shill would say tbh.
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Basic facts are basic facts.
You donât have to like them, but you canât change them.
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prolly a new hire with a god complexâŚ
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Watch yo profanity
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Swearing has always been against TOS. But you need to get mass reported and go through warnings and suspensions before ever being banned. If you are banned for your conduct it seems like they give you enough chances to correct it.
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True. My statement is also a fact. It is something a blizzard shill, rep or employee would say.
However just because it may have always been against ToS, doesnât mean it led to bans. Only now with the auto ban system in ow2 it is a thing. Even some few people with chat muted are getting banned.
Something we have to get used to.
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No, your statement is an opinion.
In your opinion what was stated is something a shill, rep or employee would say.
Yes it has, multiple times. In fact in 2020 Blizzard handed out a large manual ban wave for people who were using profanity and being toxic in voice and text chat in Overwatch.
UPDATE (Oct 12):
In addition to the improved profanity filter and updated penalties for inappropriate language, weâve also performed a manual action wave against some of the worst offenders of toxic language in Overwatch. This action will take effect with updates to profanity filter and penalties in the next live game patch.
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Title made me laugh.
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Toxicity is one thing sure. Insulting people is one thing.
They never banned people for saying âah f,â
Something that can happen with the autoban system. The matchmaking can and does put you in lopsided games all the time. The casuals can mass report for smurfing, which didnât had happen as it was matchmaking putting you against noobs, and they can report you for throwing, which also may not have happened, as matchmaking can put you against 2+ ranks higher.
The report handed out may say along the lines of âreported for toxicityâ
Auto bans now are not comparable to manual bans in ow1.
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Yes, they did.
Just because you havenât been paying attention to it until now, doesnât mean bans werenât getting handed out. I report people for swearing, especially when thatâs being directed at another player (doesnât matter if its the enemy team or my team). I get âThank you for your report, action has been taken.â messages from Blizzard all the time.
So I know people are getting actioned for swearing at other players. What that action is? I donât know. But I know how Blizzardâs penalty system works, and you eventually graduate from account silences to long suspensions if youâre foolish enough to keep breaking rules after youâve been actioned for breaking them in the past.
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You actually report people just for swearing? That is some elite level snitching. I can understand if they are directing it at someone, naturally. But just passively? Thatâs pretty yikes.
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Are you 9 years old or Mormon?
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Never really understood why people care about those words in general. Intent is what should matter when using words. Which is why people now take offense to the term snowflake or even GG EZ (Canât think of anything else that sounds ridiculous as an insult and is popular). I could call someone a rhombus and with the right tone they can tell it is meant as an insult.
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Which games?
I canât wait to find out itâs one of the games that have zero moderation on voice.
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Because itâs against the rules Blizzard set up on their platforms.
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Yes, because most of the time when I see it, itâs directed at other players. Either cursing at the enemy team, or someone throwing a fit at someone else in my team, and that type of behaviour is not acceptable in my mind.
I wouldnât tolerate it if I saw it happening in real life. I am not going to tolerate it in the games I play either.
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This is something that amazes me from americans
Infantilize adult people to the extreme
Then they make " series for adults " and it consist in characters swearing all the time and saying pee pee poo poo nonstop but gore is ok for kids in tv lol
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