Yeah I don’t believe it, friend of mine never uses chat and got a silence but appealed it and it was reverted, this was years ago though.
I thought they added that word to the restricted word list?
Or is it another word? They need to expand the reserved word list.
Never uses any form of in-game communication? No chat or channels, guild chat, no LFG postings? No raid chat/party chat?
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It’s a matter of perspective and how much we as individuals allow ourselves freedom in a conversation.
I have a high threshold and tolerance to drama, indignity and comments aimed at me. But now we live in a world where your opinions need a healthy dose of self moderation
I live my life in the shadows and give glory only to Jesus. I have had very few friends in my life. Constantly ignored. Constantly interrupted by people saying things and people acting as if what I say has little relevance.
But I’m not upset. Life is short. Flesh is weak. Fame is ephemeral. No king of anything lasts forever. We’re arguing over pixels
I know eventually I will get banned or silenced again because no matter how hard I try, I will statistically upset someone with my statements.
Conversely though I almost never flag or seek a ban on someone outside of life threats.
College taught me how to have a disagreement without losing civility and my grandmother would say If you have nothing nice to say then, don’t say anything at all
So anytime on here y’all get upset with me rather than get defensive and aggressive. I just move on. It’s not worth the effort.
I feel like the only fame you can get on these forums is infamy. That includes MVPs and community council. It doesn’t have to be an abuse of power just the fact that you’ve been recognized by Blizzard and given green text.
I’ve already been silenced three times so I know I will never have green or yellow text but Regardless, I try to be as cordial and respectful as possible.
I know it’s a broken record: But I envision a bunch of adults sitting behind the screen reading what I’m writing. And none of them are my friends. Nor enemies, but just critical people like I used to sit with in college.
They all belonged to the debate club and philosophy club. They were excellent at having continuous arguments with people without resorting to ad hominem
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Ah, the boring people, we should introduce them to fake swords and handheld skulls. Maybe put vintage clothes on them.
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We called ourselves cloud nine.
I couldn’t sit with the football players or rugby players. We had other groups like all the different fraternity sat together.
The guys that were on the fishing hunting Outdoors group.
That left me with either sitting alone or sitting with a bunch of guys who would argue constantly with each other other.
Imagine if Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro and about a dozen others very similar to them all engaging in a rapid back-and-forth.
My roommate was trying his hardest to be in the debate club. After one night, losing to a very intense debate, He just quit.
Interesting enough these are the guys that all played together in StarCraft and Warcraft.
I have the debate team to blame for my addiction to this game. Because prior to that I only played things like Doom and Sim City.
Later on, we formed a guild of people who played that massive board game called diplomacy. They dragged the game out for a week.
I stuck with the chess club And the animation club. Got to watch a bunch of evangelion.
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All of this is a matter of perspective.
When I’ve seen this topic come up we get the usual views though.
The problem with one of them is people are trying their best to bully you into not reporting anything, as if no word could possibly be enough harm to be reportable or break rules. Or that there shouldn’t be any rules in regard to words people say/type.
Who I report is my business and I don’t have to make excuses for it or reasons for it. We all have our own whether we report or not.
But I will say, I haven’t been on the receiving end of much that I was offended by, I tend not to read chat much. Yet if I do see something offensive/reportable and it’s aimed at someone else, I will for sure report it. Because we do not know if those words are going to hurt someone deeply or not and I’m not going to stand by and let that go.
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As I understand it, reporting people puts them on a temporary ignore, even if your ignore list is already full. Perhaps making the ingore list larger would help toward this issue? Maybe people’s ignore list is full-up.
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Just to play Devil’s advocate, why are a select group of peoples’ ignore lists so collectively full? They ARE the common denominator in that situation.
If people LEGIT deserve to be reported, I report them. My own ignore is currently EMPTY. Why? Because to me you’re either one of two people: someone I WANT to see and talk to, or if you’re dogging me enough that I honestly DON’T want to see hear or even so much as SEE you, you’ve already gone too far and you’re already gonna be bye bye.
How is ignoring somoene you do not want to interact with causing a problem? Aren’t most problems due to unfavorable interactions?
Here’s the thing, if everyone around you is THAT unfavorable, maybe the problem isn’t them?
I should’ve clarified, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, even knowing that in my experience folks don’t deserve it. Sure people can be awful, but is EVERYONE they meet really THAT awful, or is it more a “it’s not you, it’s me” thing at that point?
There are people who will ignore you for striking up a polite and civil conversation, I know this from experience.
I hard disagree with this…
While I think restrictions on speech have gone way to far you should always, always have the option to put people on ignore. It should always be seen as the supported option.
Players should have control over what they see. Not what other people can do.
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The Trick is no MATTER what is said, DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS. If you set yourself up with unconscious retaliating then anyone who is engaged in such behaviour needs to be addressed. It takes two to make the wrong valid regardless of position.
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While I fully support the ignore option, I’m talking about people who CHRONICALLY hit the ignore cap, to some folks being socialized with in general is offensive. What’s funniest to me is that they’re almost always someone who has “LF friends/guild” in their TRP, to the point that I actually suspect the reason they’re “looking” is just cause they’ve pathologically turned away literally everyone and just don’t realize it or can’t stop.
I would uncap the ignore feature. There are so many absolute losers these days that just report everything trying to get back at people rather then ignore them.
WoW really needed to cling to the idea of “its words on a screen grow up” rather then the path they went down. It has only gotten worse as the auto gm feature has been weaponized.
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They’ve not changed since launch.
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They used to ban lgbt guilds… you can argue they still do that or accept that the current system reflects current trends and what is socially acceptable.
If you want to nitpick about the words written in the ToS whatever no one cares about that argument. Its always about how its enforced.
Y’know what honestly makes this sad? If they did that, I could absolutely see those folks coming to the forums or other WoW platforms and complaining they can’t find guilds or friends.
“Why can’t I find friends?!?” said OP has literally their entire home realm on their ignore list
Comes down to people get a dopamine rush when they exert their tiny modicum of power in any form, and in WoW that usually happens to be the report or the vote kick feature. It’s the same type of people who go around harassing others for HoA violations because they can.
I don’t think you would… there is this weird idea that people are open to friendship with anyone and everyone. People don’t work that way. We form circles, we make enemies. I don’t ever expect to see eye to eye with everyone.
I’m sure they have their own friends who look at me with the same distain I see them with.