It’s blizzard, not us.
Online words are now treated as real life violence.
Reported!!
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Let’s clear some stuff up.
- A ban is permanent. Bans are rare for chat. And it takes a lot of other sanctions to get to that point over years.
- A suspension is being unable to play the game for a short period of time due to an in game sanction. These vary in amount of time, depending on prior offenses.
- A chat silence is a GM given sanction after reviewing chat reports and can lead to a suspension.
- A chat squelch is an automated squelch given when a threshold of chat reports is hit and then GMs will be notified to review and take further action or lift said squelch.
- A warning in game is just the system letting you know that there have been reports against you and that you might want to be careful in the future. These are not in your record and GMs cannot see them.
So what exactly are we talking about here?
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The conspiracy that all account actions happen without human review.
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that has been debunked time and time again. If someone got a ban that means a Blizzard employee gave them one
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How about people just…I don’t know…not be racist? And they wouldn’t get banned…
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then i’m doing my job under the radar!
Stay gold, Pony Boy.
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lmao no
It’s not being banned from “disagreement” when you get banned for using a racial slur or saying something violent about a minority.
Which is what’s actually happening 90% of the time someone whines about being banned for “disagreement”
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It’s GD; everything comes back around eventually.
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yea! ban culture!
all of it. every single bit!
You sound like a backwards tiny tim.
Didn’t work, and also…
… it isn’t extreme to ban racists.
It is Blizzard’s property, if racists wanna be on it - behave or get lost, and racism ain’t tolerated.
It is almost like people are still people when we speak online. If you cannot stand that your words matter when spoken online, either… don’t speak, or try doing it in person to see whether you’ll go to jail, be punched, or anything else like that. See if you still want to say the things you say in that case.
Threats are threats.
Calls to violence are calls to violence.
Folks being pointlessly abrasive and insults people, guess what… no one likes those people either.
Oh and also, the first one is an article from 2014, and the other is one of the first results that are a couple of days old. This ain’t new.
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I love when people give literature references. Because you know the other person isn’t going to understand it or even know what it’s from without Google. lol
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technically, one can get banned just for chat and not even in the extreme sense… i’ve been around for 20 yrs, and my next use of cuss words or whatever will get me the next tier after a month off. never used any slurs or spoke of violence. (although one silence did result from me mentioning an old guild name we saw years back that referred to a group of snake people and the theft of a 2 wheeled vehicle!)
Can we keep sourdough starters? A world without sourdough isn’t a world I want any part of.
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I can never remember if it’s gold or golden.
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eye eye, captain!
I would say yes, of course, but it’s all culture. so it’s out too.