Idk, seems like you are defending anti curse words.
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Now add better moderation to the forums please!
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Seems like you are defending breaking ToS.
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So typing symbols would be breaking ToS? For example, if someone typed, “hey you #$!*” and didn’t even use a curse word but you think they did because you have your profanity filter on, you going to report them and then want that player banned?
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You mean besides the entire history of the world being an example of whites oppressing and subjugating BIPOCs? I mean I guess I get your point if we’re just going to suppose in a vacuum.
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That’s great. Will reporting actually do something now?
And you just randomly bring this up because…?
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So just a few questions. Umm…why is it automated through a robot rather than having someone actually look into it? We’ve already seen evidence that the automated quantity system does nothing and the only thing you’ve done by this article is now make it automate faster. Are you planning to hire more GMs/CS agents to investigate these reports and actually look into them? Any plans to…oh I don’t know…put a block on the chat system entirely to not allow the N word or racial slurs in general to be typed? We know you can do this because you did it with /spit.
I’m just wondering if there’s any plans of substance to actually do something that will work and have impact instead of the usual virtue signaling “We’re doing SO MUCH to make things better for YOU” and then a few months from now we’ll see (as with boosting communities) that it actually didn’t do anything because no human beings are watching the system just robots and automation that can be manipulated.
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And apparently Blizzard’s going to have to continue to explain this over and over and over again.
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In my experience they are not.
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Well if you believe others should be banned in a rated T (for teenagers) game for using a curse word, then it’s highly likely that you have your profanity filter on. I have never met a teenager who hasn’t cursed before. 
As long as you can buy anything that’s supposed to be earned, like a carry, people are going to be upset.
It devalues the achievement in the first place.
There’s been an ongoing war between people that just play the game normally (grinding and farming and not skipping), and the other side of that are people that buy most things with token or real $$$ and are supportive of the in-game shop.
Hell, it’s the reason of the removal of /spit.
This is just the next step of that.
They are addressing the toxicity but not why the toxicity appears in the first place.
Players are being alienated by the game they play because nothing they do matters anymore, largely due to the new culture around carries.
It’s an erosion of integrity for money that is making many players (like myself) disgruntled to the point where we have no problem leaving, or openly being “negative” (just bringing attention to the fact) on what we as an obvious problem with this game being Pay to Win.
What’s the point anymore?
Just a band-aid fix as usual and not doing anything about the root of the issue, why players are turning toxic.
At this point people just don’t want to acknowledge it. It’s been explained a million times the Social Contract is a simplified Code of Conduct you already agreed to. It’s been explained you can’t use profanity. The information is out there, people just don’t want to accept it.
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I’m bringing it up because–absent some evidence to the contrary–the baseline culture Blizzard will be applying in determining offensiveness and monitoring in-game interactions will be upper middle class American (specifically Irvine, CA) whiteness and may well result in disproportionate actioning of accounts of BIPOC players who have different cultural backgrounds and use words differently.
Again, there are terms that are used in AAVE that may offend whites but are friendly among blacks. So my question is: how is Blizzard going to account for cultural differences like these in its moderation? I don’t think they are going to and this will just be another system used to perpetuate whiteness and enforce white values on BIPOCs.
Once again, its not allowed. Deal with it.
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If they are anything like certain MMO-Champion mods, then probably not. Fortunately, I have to date found that Blizzards moderation team and other departments tend to be some of the fairest in any game and the best in the business.
The real question that is going to test them I think, is how they moderate individuals that believe because they are X or Y, they are entitled to special privileges. Case and point this player and his rather inflammatory name. Will it be changed? Would or should we allow players named similarly, but championing or desparaging other causes*? Definition of cause in supra, above.
If Blizzard is equal in their use and application of Bahn Doomhammer, then I think for all the hue and cry on the forums, this system will work fine. Yet if they withhold judgment or punishment from one group, but punish all others with punitive measures; it will not end well for them as a company. People are at the breaking point which I have mentioned in prior posts, and Blizzard is not a giant with no competitors now.
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Because I don’t want to go around in game reporting every child/teenager that uses a curse word in chat.
I’m glad to see there is some sort of improved response to reports. I also hope there is a method of appeal. I realize an appeal process will be a huge responsibility and time sink, but it has to go hand in hand with any sort of penalty. Otherwise, nothing has really changed. The process remains opaque.
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i worry that the " stream line " section means robotic.
in many scenarios it can help however, it has previously shown clear abuse via mass reporting.
I’m assuming that it means robotic but it could be supervised. Will there be human overlook over report cases?
If its something like a slur, doesn’t matter what your race is. Can’t use it. I remember a supposedly black player thinking he could freely say the n word. He was proven wrong very quickly.
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