When messaging players who are silenced, please add a note or something that says “this player is silenced so he is not able to reply to you”…
That way players don’t feed ignored when messaging someone who literally can’t reply
Edit: This isn’t to “find out if action has been taken against someone” no, I don’t care. This is not to offend people who whispered you when you have been silenced and literally cannot reply
How do you know that they’re silenced? They could be choosing to ignore you.
I have zero obligation to respond to anyone who whispers me. If you feel bad because of that then maybe you should figure out why you feel that way and work on it
If you set /DND you can put your own custom message.
Can do that with afk too.
I’m confused. Are you saying you silenced someone and forgot? Or were you the one silenced and didn’t know?
I guess it doesn’t really matter since either way you’re kind of the problem.
By silenced, they do not mean ignored.
They mean the autosilence “feature” that will prevent players from talking to anyone, even friends.
Not sure you are understanding. Silenced players can get whispers but can’t whisper back. So I’m suggesting to add a note for the person messaging a silenced player that says something like “this player can’t respond to you, he’s silenced”.
This has nothing to do with you choosing to respond to people or not when you have no penalty attached to you.
I can see both sides of the argument.
For one thing - I have been silenced for my…. incorrigible behavior. I can see wanting people to know that you aren’t ignoring them.
On the other hand…. I can see the privacy concern. I didn’t necessarily want people to know when I was silenced or why. I would just ride it out.
If people got a message when they were whispered… it would encourage people to flag and report more, and then they could test to see if their flags work by whispering you.
People who are flagged deserve some privacy. Blizzard doesn’t make a show about punishing people, they keep that private. If others could find out that their flags are working by whispering, it would give those flaggers satisfaction.
So, while I see the reason to want it, it seems worse to implement it automatically.
Privacy? I don’t know if it’s still the case but you used to get a debuff on you if you were silenced.
That’s enough of an announcement.
Maybe you should work on not being so hostile?
this.
there’s some emotional insecurity going on there. feeling bad because someone isn’t replying is sad in itself.
No. It’s none of mine, nor yours, business if a player is silenced or under penalty by Blizzard for actions that do not concern me.
What’s to stop a player from using the same message just to troll you, so they don’t have to answer. Then you see them talking in chat a short time later just to again troll you with the same reply.
Nothing. Again, just because you see someone talking in Trade does not mean they have to respond in any way.
Theres a rich sense of entitlement that comes from people who think they deserve the attention of anyone just because you sent them a private message.
In one game i use to play back in 2008 i had a GM ( Game Master Aka Mod ) come to me because people kept complaining i was there farming and i didnt respond to whispers so i must be a Bot. They asked why i wasnt responding i told them “i didn’t know i had to respond to players” The reply was “well you don’t but people will think you are botting” i said “So?, i replied to the only person i HAVE to respond to during that kind of situation” GMs pretty much told the people i was not breaking the rules and i just don’t want to reply to them, if they want to spot try and kill me ( the player ) to take it. It went well enough for them, until i brought some guild friends and they wasted their exp scrolls XD.
You don’t even know how a silence works but you jump to the conclusion that the OP is the problem.
They kind of ARE the problem, wanting an automated message to tells them when someone is silenced.
We’d need context. That doesn’t make them the problem.
Actually, wanting to violate people’s privacy does make them a problem.
Everything is private here. The only personal information anyone will ever get about you is what you tell them.