Our team lost a game. At the end of the round, a player did not like that I was using bastion and falsely told everyone to report me for using the n word despite me not saying a single word the entire game. His group seemingly also encouraged openly to report me for using the n-word.
Is there an admin I can talk to? This is borderline libel and would like to request a chat log if one is available for future records.
The forums aren’t the place to go for this, you’re actually not allowed to share other people’s accounts on here so this post is probably going to get taken down. I haven’t dealt with this issue yet so I don’t know what exactly to do but you could contact blizzard support on their website.
You should demand to speak to the manager.
Blizzard support directed me to here.
One person or group reporting you will not lead to false action, especially if you didn’t actually say it.
Calling out players by name is against the code of conduct and you will likely get a forum ban if you don’t remove the player’s name and/or link to the account.
The forum moderators are not going to help you for in game activity. You can contact support but it’s highly unlikely they will give you any kind of chat logs. I also think you’re blowing it a bit out of proportion - I dont think anyone will take accusations of libel seriously for a video game’s in-game text chat.
Huh, that’s weird. You should take their account off the post so it doesn’t get taken down though.
It’s not really a joke, considering people scroll back 5 years of tweets to get people cancelled. Who knows if someone was streaming the game on Youtube, then 5 years later this issue gets brought back up and gets me in hot water.
Right, but those people actually said/did those things. What is going to happen to you? A disgruntled Blizzard employee tracks down your real identity and digs through years of match chat logs looking for someone accusing you of something you didn’t do? That would be ridiculous and yield nothing.
And in those cases they have proof of the statements the person made with their real name because it’s on Twitter.
You really think that’s similar to someone else’s assertion that you said something bad in a video game? And how would they even know who “komocode” is in real life?
Well if someone on the enemy team was streaming this on Youtube, it’s permanently on record that there was this accusation. An accusation is more than enough to get people cancelled these days.
I’m not “internet famous” but I’m about to release some things I’ve worked on for a while and who knows if those things go viral.
But again, how would they attach your in game name to your real life??
Sounds like you live in crippling fear, probably shouldn’t be online at all.
“Komocode” is an extremely unique name.
I was able to google myself in 2 minutes and figured out my real name because I’ve done some dev work under that name. Not really hard to find my linked in after that.
Well for someone so concerned about words others throw around in video games, isn’t it a tad self-sabotaging to use a name so easily traced back to your real name?
Nah. If that were true there wouldn’t be any streamers left.
I think you’re getting a bit too paranoid. If you’re worried merely about an accusation, then being an internet streamer may not be for you. People in the spotlight will be accused of pretty much anything. Heck if someone really care they could trivially photoshop you saying something or even create/rename an account with your name and take a screenshot of “you” (them) saying something.
No, because I would never use or say anything offensive?
I think his big concern is more if he was a streamer, not like a politician or something. As a streamer he would, on a daily basis, associate his twitch account/identity with his in game name.
That said, per my reply above, I think he’s being overly paranoid about it.
Yeah but the entire point of this thread is that other people can say whatever they want about you and get you “cancelled”.
The best advice I think you could get is change your name to something that isn’t easily traced back to your real one.
Not sure where you got that idea that I’m an internet streamer. I’m not an internet streamer nor do I plan to be.
Just forget about it. Seriously, people do this all the time. Nothing will come from it unless:
1.) It happens a lot. As in, you coincidentally run into this same circumstance multiple times in a short period of time. Which is very highly unlikely.
Or 2.) There is somehow chat log evidence of you saying it.
If #2 is false, then you have nothing to worry about. The report system is mostly automated, so one group of immature jerks isn’t going to get you banned.
There are consequences for people throwing out false accusations that could damage the victim. Those are called libel lawsuits.
It’s too late now. My “komocode” name is linked to my real name on the internet. Changing my name now isn’t going to resolve this.