you cant control what others say but you can control what you see. if you ever give a reaction to toxic people then youve played into their hands. people arent people on the internet they are user names and avatars so dont ever take things personally,
Toxic speech is anything someone doesn’t like and reports you for in the game.
Welcome to blizzards draconian automation rules, have fun.
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Low post count. Incredibly well known to be contentious subject. Highly loaded and extreme point of view with ridiculous takes thrown in.
Y’all got nothing better to do than troll?
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The amount of replies that just read the title and write a little blurd along the lines of: “bla bla people don’t know what realll toxity is, screw blizzard” is both funny yet disturbing…
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are u just… bragging about ur degree in an overwatch game?? how would someone know-
???
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This person’s posts are a trip. I thought I had a superiority complex. This individual is just mired in it.
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“Hello team. I have a masters degree in forensic psychology. Now I’m gonna tell you what heroes to pick and how to play them and take zero criticism myself”
No wonder they get reported
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I was JUST let out of the dog house, and I’ve been martyred yet again lol. I’m literally dumbfounded and in shock still.
Clearly you all here have misunderstood the point of this post.
Tldr: anything can be considered toxic. Literally.
Martyred for the noble cause of being rude to folks online?
You keep on truckin, champ. You’ll get there someday.
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My team doesn’t take it that way, it is so mild that they genuinely seem to believe they can still persuade me to switch heroes when I tell them to do exactly that.
The “privileges” are only with respect to government. Blizzard is under no such obligation to protect speech and can ban anyone for whatever reason they want
As for what is grounds for toxic speech?
I’d wager that there are about 7 billion different answers to that question, depending on who you ask
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If you are telling people how to play in-game, and then report them all when they take it badly, and then come here calling people “god forsaken trolls”, “god forsaken mindless zombies”, and “braindead trolls”, while offering to name them on the forum (which is against against CoC), in a thread posting about actions against your account (which is also against CoC), I find it hard to believe that you are the martyr in this story.
I can well believe you had teammates who were toxic jerks. This is not how to handle that. And if the problem really is down to three people, they don’t have the power to singlehandedly get you suspended.
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Blizzard is a private company and they can choose whatever limitations on speech they want because that’s what happens when you agree to their ToA. Protected speech is not a part of the equation here in anyway. Is it arbitrary? Yeah, possibly. Does it make sense to try and control speech on the internet? No, but they’re doing it regardless. If they agree with the reporters, then that ostensibly means you broke the rules they set up. Is it unfair? Yeah, sort of. I doubt they care about fairness, only that you do what they want and you basically have to.
So, yes, you have no choice but to follow their unfair and arbitrary rules. That’s what you said you’d do (legally) when you bought the game.
I’m beginning to see this, and this seems to be why Blizzard refuses to touch this subject and people continuously get shafted.
@ [AltoNat] Yes however AS a private company, we have consumer rights that can be invoked.
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To my knowledge no entity or person has ever successfully taken to court Blizzard or any other video game company, about the platform of free speech.
My personal stance on this topic is this;
Private companies are beholden to many different rules concerning many different grey areas of legality. People should push, through legislation, that any company with an internet presence, and located physically within the border of The United States, be applicable to the defined words of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
The fact that companies cannot get away with discriminatory practice because laws are in place, is the very reason why they shouldn’t be able to discriminate against language.
Anything is grounds for toxic speech. As long as whatever you say generates enough reports for the automated system to kick in.
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I agree. But there is no free speech on the Internet as recent events has proven.
Institute free speech on the internet.
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Oh, but they can, and they do.
Should a company be permitted to regulate speech within its physical establishment? For example, should they be permitted to refuse service to a customer who behaves in a way that is disturbing to other customers?
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