In the recent few days I have noticed more and more people are calling for the harassment of other players by Mass reporting the players in AV actually playing the game i.e. completing quests, killing other players, even defending GY, tower and so on. This has caused some accounts to get banned for Game Sabotage. In the recent, Alliance specific, has learned that by killing the Lieutenants and Commanders they can get large amounts of Honor in short period of time. If you do not follow the masses and actually play the game you are called out and people are calling for the mass reporting of you. This clearly goes against the TOS as false reporting and harassment.
You can report those if you wish.
āMass Reportingā really isnāt the thing some players would like you to think it is. Iāve yet to see a single report come through here, claiming that - that was accurate.
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Mass reporting does nothing, and is often an excuse used by people to justify an account action against them, and is essentially a scare tactic. If you get banned in a BG it will because you violated the TOS likely due to toxic or abusive language in chat, this includes swearing even if masked, and yes people have been banned for swearing since Vanilla, and the only difference now is that its simply easy to report people where it used to be more challenging. The worst that could occur is a temporary squelch, but even those are unlikely, and those are rapidly pushed to the front of the queue, and voided if the reported text did not violate the TOS.
Bans are not automated, and are all reviewed by a GM. It also doesnāt matter if 1 or 20 people report chat as a violation. The reported text will simply be sent to a GM to review, if that chat violates the TOS, you will receive an account action, if it does not, the report will be flagged as incorrect and have no impact to the account either now, or in the future. People simply do not get suspended for being bad at PvP, or not following along with the Zerg, and it doesnāt matter how many people report them.
In general, the biggest way to get people is to bait them into violating the TOS, then report them, and yes people will do this, and again it takes a single report, and you can receive an account action simply for swearing, and yes thats a violation of the TOS. So if you donāt want an account action, donāt argue with other people in chat especially in a way that can be considered offensive or toxic.
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If people in chat are telling others to report a player, that itself can be reported.
What you should never do is respond to them especially if youāre using profanity, being toxic, etc.
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They are mass AFK flagging to get people auto booted out of the BG. Not mass reporting people for other stuff cuz those mass reports that you described there would not go through and would do nothing for the account. getting false reported. So they are just mass reporting people as AFK to get them kicked. Perhaps that is what you meant to say.
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Thatās not how that system works - unless they have a history of being afked repeatedly, there is a timer that counts down to either get into combat to remove it or it removes them. Even then, there isnāt a means to just remove anyone because someone say so.
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There are two debuffs before being kicked from a BG. The second can be skipped if one is a repeat offender. Blizz does action repeat offenders, weāve seen the posts here from time to time.
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Nope. Wrong. You absolutely can remove people from BGs if you want to. In premade groups for example we had one guy who we didnāt invite as our group meant to have 10 only had 9, one other person came in at random. They got removed. You can remove people from bgs. 100% fact. They can be capping and all of that.
Look at the dozens upon dozens of threads out there for people saying it happened to them. Absolute fact. You can get removed from a BG even if you are participating. When I used to raid box I would report people I didnāt want in the BG with me. 36 reports, yea youāre gone. Trust me, it works. Just cuz you have never seen it work doesnāt mean that it doesnāt work. Even vids out of there of people getting kicked who were active. That is simply how the reports work. Do a premade with me and I will show you.
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Youāll show us that reporting someone as away gives them a timer to enter combat before they are kicked.
This is not new and not secret information.
What you cannot do, is remove someone from the battleground instantly.
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Yes, and they log right back in.
When you participate in a discussion, your fellow players are going to interact with your posts. If you ignored me, fair enough.
So you broke the rules and probably got actioned for it.
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thatās insane lmao
That is not classed as harassment. If you wish to provide feedback on reporting people for AFK in Battlegrounds, or have a suggestion on how the tool can be improved, might need to provide that feedback somewhere like the Battlegrounds forums or In-Game feedback tool.
Orlyia is a Support Forum Agent. She isnāt responsible for tools in-game or any development towards the game, or the policy making.
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Is the same player targeting you in doing this over and over? No? Not harassment.
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Iād defer to Blizzardās interpretation of the Code of Conduct than the playerās point of view. Right now, they say itās not Harassment or Griefing.
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Good news! They respond to all appeals. More great news, every single time we see people using the term āmass reportingā as the reason why they got actioned, we find out that it had nothing to do with that.
Additionally, account actions are not done from reports alone.
Youāve received replies. So you would seem to be the one lying unfortunately.
Best of luck on your ticket.
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Enough reports and you get kicked instantly. As already said on my other toon.
Yes. I got removed from the BG which you said could not happen. Against TOS to remove people from a group for an invalid reason though. You can be removed from a BG even if you are active and not AFK. You get removed for gameplay sabotage.
I said I muted thread not you.
When they said mass reporting, I think what they meant to say was mass flagging players afk which does get you an auto kick. They worded it wrong but that is what they meant. Orlyia said here as well could not mass report as OP claims.
No one is getting banned because of getting reported afk. Against TOS to ask people to mass report simply to get someone unfairly actioned. OP said one thing yet meant another.
Iām confused on the term āraid boxā. Does that mean just going into AV with basically a full raid of guildies?
Only, thatās not how the system works. I get that youāre dead-set on it working that wayā¦but unless the other player has a long history of being flagged AFK, then the number of reports doesnāt really matter.
Theyāll be given a debuff to get into combat or be removed. Thatās how it works. Thatās how itās always worked. If someone has a history of being reported, then yes, the reports will boot them much faster.
Actually, they are indeed. Weāve had a few threads recently in this forum on it. Repeated offenders are indeed actioned when the reports and logs prove that they have been inactive in games.
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Enough YT vids out there prove it to be true and many thousands of people can also say it to be true too.
Then that is good that action is being taken vs them. I hope what you say is true. That would be a good step then. Very annoying to do a BG and have someone in there soaking up HP and just sitting mid.
Multiboxing a raid group. Banned now.
I donāt think OP is coming back to this thread. They arenāt a forum regular. But there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people out there who are saying that yes you can be auto booted from a BG from false afk reports. It has been a known tactic for decades now.
That needs to be changed. If you are doing combat or moving around near flag then should not be able to be kicked.
Software and then hardware key broadcasting both got banned. Anyone who boxes never wants to do the other stuff they allow as that is not how to MB so yes to do it how it is actually named is banned. You never done it then dont speak on it. You are arguing just to argue. No one who MBs does it using anything other than Software or hardware key broadcasting. Well known fact cuz i actually used to box in WoW so I would knowā¦look at the threads of people saying they got banned for still doing it.
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