I recently was silenced and dont believe it was right, I was silenced for asking people to come watch twitch for Bizzards Twitch drops that are advertised here: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23891616/dragonflight-twitch-drops-earn-rewards-as-the-race-to-world-first-heats-up
You ask us to get players to watch but then I am silenced in game for asking people to watch. I made sure I was NOT spamming and posted in in different zone so NOT to spam players. I was polite and should not be silenced. Please correct this. Otherwise you should not be advertising twitch drops that we are not allowed to ask players to come and watch. Also silence states it suspends chat and mail privileges so why can I not use group finder to do an M0???
You would need to appeal using the means provided in the email sent to you. No one can do anything about this on the forums.
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Blizzard is doing just fine in advertising the Twitch drops on their own. You are not allowed to advertise third-party sites for yourself or someone else.
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This alone validates the silence. Under no circumstances can you advertise for anything outside of the game, be it Twitch, Discord or anything else. Chat, LFG listing, none of it.
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Advertising your stream in game isn’t allowed. Other ads in game haven’t been allowed since Legion. You can appeal it but the frequency of chat and how many people reported can be factors, with frequency and if chat was otherwise dead being factors. Whomever looks at an appeal would be able to see the logs.
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The largest problem here is this:
silence states it suspends chat and mail privileges so why can I not use group finder to do an M0???
which is doing a lot more than silencing chat and mail communication.
Because that is part of the restrictions. Here is a rather comprehensive list: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/44277
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Thanks for the list. However this show that this is FAR MORE than a silence.
Of course. It’s a punishment for abusing the ability to communicate. Punishments are not supposed to be convenient.
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I suppose it depends on your perspective. Think about Group Finder as being a way for you to “advertise” that you need players for a group, or a group. That’s why it’s part of the social restrictions. The overall punishment is that you should find your ability to communicate with other players to be severely limited, and that includes many ways that people used to end around the silence.
In the end, a punishment is not meant to be something that you accept, or doesn’t affect your normal play. Quite the opposite. It’s meant to be a deterrent.
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Punishments aren’t supposed to be fuzzy and fun. You are lucky that this is your first infraction and only merited a silence. More and more people have been coming in with 7+ day suspensions, as they’ve been taking a harder stance on violations - even on first offenses. It’s inconvenient, yes. It has to be to try and teach folks what is and isn’t acceptable. And advertisements seem to get slapped down harder than most other infractions. People really just don’t want to see them anywhere in game. They tried only doing a day of a silence or suspension, but people handwaved it off and kept right on with the poor behavior.
Folks who genuinely didn’t know they were breaking the rules have to bear the burden of the people who ruined things for everyone else. I’m sorry you’re in the spot you’re in, but it could have easily been a suspension.
And too, just fair warning? Social sanctions stack. They don’t fall away and they will only double from here on out. You’ve got a silence now. It would be a suspension for a week next, then two weeks, etc., etc…
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Thank you for the polite response and valuable information, I appreciate it.
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Advertising has always been against the rules. You can use your own social media or resources, but not Blizzard’s.
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