Abuse of the report system for legit in-game sales

[Humanbeak-drenden]

@Thallia-sentinels

@Humanbeak-drenden

It reads to me like getting silenced (the official penalty) is now straight-up automated.

No, that’s the silence they penalize you with after the automated squelch. It doesn’t sound automated, it just sounds like extremely simplistic wording for the process after the squelch. Because all squelchs are the same duration of time. The article specifically says:

The duration of your silence increases each time we apply it to your account.

And blue post says:

@Vrakthris

There isn’t really any fundamental difference between the functionality of a squelch and a silence. It is primarily just that a silence is usually applied after the reports have been reviewed.

So that’s just the basic explanation of what happens when a GM reviews it.

Fair, it’s just certain bullet points seem to define actual metrics which strongly suggest automation, particularly:

Abusive chat reports will fall off after a predetermined amount of time.

The number of abusive chat reports necessary to penalize your account remains the same, regardless of past penalties.

The first bullet indicates there’s a rolling period for counting reports, and the second bullet point indicates there’s an actual threshold that will trigger the silence once the threshold is reached.

I can’t imagine GMs being bound to thresholds if it was a manual review.