I’m still wondering when any real improvements towards a “fun, fair, and safe game environment” will actually be made.
Honestly, it just makes me wonder if I’m going to log in for my next in-game session to an account warning or similar corporate harrassment. I no longer spend much (if any) time talking in trade chat because Blizzard has gone out of its way to foster an atmosphere of ideological persecution. And it seems like every other post of mine on these forums is hidden, removed, and earns me a ban for being either “inappropriate”, “trolling”, or some other catch-all.
This despite my trying to maintain a friendly and informative tone in both. But apparently stating facts is inappropriate and providing much needed context is trolling.
TLDR: I have no faith in any of this. And I look forward to the day when the world forces you as a company to RECANT. And I intend to be there when it does.
This is a very important message that should be reiterated multiple times so others can see this before the new social contract goes into effect next week. Too bad it can’t be pinned. It’s not worth the risk to lose your decade+ old account for just doing something non-harmful like censoring yourself by replacing words with symbols in public chat.
I guess for those who can’t follow the rules and just be polite might want to consider what you suggest.
As for the rest of us, we’ll be chatting it up as usual.
The rules have not changed since 2004 with regard to the types of things we can say. The reporting system is the same as it was the past many years. Right click report for language.
They did not add anything new to it… I don’t know what the panic is about having to follow the rules we have had for 17 years.
If you were not getting reported today, chances are you won’t be getting reported after the patch.
They have had the same language rules for 17 years. They are not recanting, nor are the other games that have even stricter moderation.
Best not to do it on multiple chars either… Spamming things does not help and it is also false information. To “lose an account” someone has to be really really vile many times. Pretty easy not to do that.
This is a pretty fair statement, and Discord Servers I run, I lay out the fundamentals of what not to say.
However, it should be pretty self explanatory NOT to turn conversations around to focus on a player especially in a negative way. I’ll probably get actioned for this but worth it:
Statements like “git gud”, “you’re bad”, “kill yourself”, “stop being gay”, etc., are really not necessary comments anyone should be making, in game or not.
Wait, you are going to report and try to ban other players in your pugs that say the phrase “git gud”? You really feel this is a bannable offense? WTF…
I don’t know whether the rules have been unchanging for 17 years (the current in game code of conduct page says its 2 years old), but we both know there hasn’t been much (if any) meaningful chat enforcement in WoW before now and that this is signaling some sort of intent to start ratcheting up enforcement. So whether or not the text of the rules is the same, the impact of the rules is changing. That is a meaningful, real change that deserves scrutiny (and prophylactic measures for some).
You keep telling yourself that. As for others im still going to inform them so the people who inevitably weaponize this for people they just dont like dont get falsely banned.
No, but it is disrespectful and doesn’t create a positive nor friendly environment. And, if you’re upset by that, maybe you are making these unnecessary remarks and should change your attitude.
To you, maybe but not to me. But, at least you know where I stand, if I am running things
I can’t believe people on here feel that another player should lose their account and all that time invested for really stating a common phrase like “git gud” in the game. Yea, if there are people that are really going to try to censor WoW’s chat this much then public chat is now dead starting next week.
Bro any system that has some amount of automation can be abused. In New World at launch, the right click report feature was being abused through mass reports to trigger 24 hour bans during battles over cities left and right. Amazon said they review all reports, but no one believed that. So its a valid concern for people to have.
You just make sure you don’t abuse the chat and the report system, ok?
I kind of feel like your repeating this same fears and advice for others to turn off their chat is a bit of projection.
