You do not disagree that a “Squelch” still prevents players from engaging in Public Chat Channels which is still a form of a “silence” (not to be confused with Blizzard extending the punishment). Which is still automated. And determined by the Player Base.
There’s no “correcting” to be had. Both “Squelching” and “Silencing” prevents players from engaging in Public Chat Channels, do they not?
If “Squelching” the automatic feature controlled by the Player Base does not prevent players from engaging in Public Chat Channels, I will concede.
Personally, IDC what its called. Whatever you want to call the automatic feature, determined by the Player Base that prevents you from speaking in Public Chat Channels, is all I care about.
This feature exists, and it’s what I’ve been talking about, the entire time. We can call it the “Lamp” Feature/System, for all I care. It doesn’t take away that the fact that enough of the Player Base can automatically prevent another player from engaging in the Public Chat Channel. Period.
Nope. Too often troll is declared simply because of a difference in opinion, an unpopular opinion, or an opinion the reader or observer doesn’t or can’t understand.
Yes by all means lets continue the trend of fascism that has grown out of control since 2008… in fact lets import it into a game because college campuses and thought on Twitter and FB are not enough to ban if we do not like them…
I usually just use the ‘spam’ option. It seems the closest for the persistent latenight LookingForGroup trolls. You can argue about intent all you like, but if someone makes a macro to post the exact same bait posts into LFG chat night after night trying to get replies, I’ll add my +1 to vote to squelch.
I enjoy talking about politics.
I enjoy talking about life.
I enjoy talking about my two children.
I enjoy talking about the weather.
I enjoy talking about current affairs.
I enjoy the whole we can agree that we disagree on all the above.
Yes even with my children.
I never talk about it in trade.
It depends on what you mean by investigate? If you mean, some first level support team member who has a huge back log of cases ticks off a box that confirms the automated report systems ruling? Then yeah they investigate.
A real investigation does not happen till after about 4 appeals on the same ticket, the first three of which you’ll get a copy pasted reply saying basically the punishment will be upheld no further response will be issued. Then you keep resubmitting it anyway and it eventually goes to an actual support team member who will do an investigation.
Or you may roll the lucky dice and be one of the tickets selected for quality control evaluation and get investigated on the first round.
What I like about these times is that being obviously wrong can absolutely be fixed by simply ignoring everything and speaking with authority. Those people who are correct will try to argue until they get bored and, in the most successful cases, start fighting against themselves over other details, derailing their own cause completely.
You don’t have to try to prove yourself. Why should someone have to provide evidence if they’re just right?
Personally, it just sounds like the only thing I’m “wrong” about is calling “Squelch” “Silence”
When the argument was that there is an automatic feature that prevents players from participating in Public Chat Channels. Which is determined by the Player Base.
A squelch can happen if enough players on unique accounts report a player for spam. Yes, the squelch is automatic
Is exactly what I was saying, minus referring the “Squelch” as a “Silence” (again both “Systems” prevent that reported individual from engaging in Public Chat Channels):
And here’s where you get mad at me for calling “Squelch” “Silence”:
You weren’t differentiating between the systems at all. You were calling the squelch a silence in name and also linking the silence article while talking about the squelch.
Every single post you linked from players was them confusing the squelch and silence systems.
You were spreading misinformation.
You were wrong.
You are claiming the only thing you did was misrepresent the systems by name, this isn’t true. You didn’t differentiate between them at all, you talked about automatic silences while linking the silence article; silences aren’t automatic.
Fine, for the sake of argument, I am confused because the “Squelch” and “Silence” aren’t made very clear.
The one I posted and perhaps, you can understand my confusion, mentions nothing about investigating nor it being automatic. I was told:
When they do matter, and that’s exactly what that article said:
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/72214
We silence your account if you are reported multiple times for Spam or Abusive Chat.
Multiple abusive chat reports from the same person do not stack—only reports from unique players are counted towards a silence penalty.
they would have to spend copious quantities of time moderating this if they did . Its been brought up at meetings but to be honest we already have something called /ignore…it works great but it doesn’t always satisfy those that want to complain
Any event, /ignore has issues. It doesn’t ignore people’s alts, for one. And way more people have alts in classic than in vanilla, where most people had only one level 60 toon until nearly TBC.
Secondly, the cap is 500 people, but server sizes are 3-5 timers bigger in classic than vanilla.
Thirdly, I don’t want to permanently ignore someone for arguing politics in LFG. I just want to not have to see them type for a little while, not have them instigating other people bringing up politics. And vanilla ignore list doesn’t allow you to note WHY you ignored people.
Most forums and discords block politics and religion from open discussion because it leads to flame wars, and that’s not what people are there for. Same thing applies, here.
Just because I’m a mature adult and can eat my spinach doesn’t mean I want to have Spinach sprinkled in my damn ice cream, ya feel me?
