Profanity can absolutely get you banned, it’s not allowed.
From the Blizzard Code of Conduct, “Hate speech and discriminatory language is inappropriate, as is any obscene or disruptive language.”
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Simple.
A stupid or racist character name breaks immersion for me and is against the rules. Love watching them change it.
But I’ll say whatever I want to say when I want to say it and there will be no consequences. 
Hate speech isnt real its subjective and based on who hears it and who enforces the rules, in otherwords it is an ever-changing thing aka bs. which is why it is best to never use ingame chat if you are affraid you might get banned for speaking. or act like those who say “oh just dont be a bad person and other thingss” who always end up being the very people who get banned suspended or silenced and than cry on forums about how unfair it is.
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This is whataboutism. It was stupid back then with respect to certain reasons people were ostracized, and cancel culture as it exists now is similarly stupid and abusive. Yes, it’s “just a video game.” But then why are you so invested in it?
Why are you behaving as though it’s wrong to call a company out for cancel culture? No one believes a private company cannot do as it wishes, and interestingly it isn’t against Blizzard’s terms of service to speak in general terms about why cancel culture is stupid and abusive. Blizzard can do what it wants, and people are free to recognize bad form for what it is and say so. Just like you are free to waste your time berating people for not actually breaking the rules by thinking cancel culture exists and is a bad look for anyone who agrees with it. People who engage in cancel culture are holier-than-thou and close-minded, and the scope and magnitude of the cancellation doesn’t change that nor does it change the inherent abusive nature of it.
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Getting exiled, which was basically death back then, or straight up murdered for wrong speech isn’t quite the same as being unable to post on the WoW forums.
There are plenty of places people can post whatever they want consequence free. They only want to do it on the WoW forums to be a menace.
Property rights are also more important than whatever warped freeze peach you want to spout about on top of it.
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This is assigning motivations to an entire group of people without knowing individuals personally. Some people do, and some people don’t. If you believe you can tell everyone apart, you are part of the problem. And since it isn’t against the rules to complain about cancel culture, you’re wasting your time looking down on those who do. Interesting how you are a stickler for rules in one aspect but aren’t a stickler in the other regard.
I really wish you would have read my comment more carefully before lumping murder in with ideology-driven video game silences:
Bad form is bad form.
If you truly believed in a zero-sum scenario in which some causes deserve attention and others do not based simply on magnitude, you’d best log off and start berating murderers instead of spending your time here disagreeing with me.
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If you say so.
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Blizzard setting their own rules on their own property isn’t cancel culture. Private entities deciding what they want to do with their property isn’t cancel culture.
We’re posting in a silly thread on the WoW forums. You’re taking your virtue signaling way too seriously.
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Are we robots?
Yeah, it is. It’s a publicly traded corporation capitulating to racketeering by diversity consultation firms that suffer from mission creep and administrative bloat for fear of being branded “-ist” by cultural fad stock indices that themselves suffer from above. Meanwhile game designs and players who don’t align with the cause du jour are pushed out. And then people end up with surprise Pikachu face when games like Veilguard crash and burn, or when politicians who don’t support cancel culture are elected. “Vote with your wallet.” Yeah, people did. Some even used real ballots. Wouldn’t it have been nice if those people were listened to until it reached an extreme? No, let’s be Boomers about it shun people “because muh freedom and muh private businesses” and then wonder later why money was lost or why things turned out a certain way. This type of thinking is reactive and not proactive, and it hurts everyone. To be perfectly clear, the corporations don’t even share your values because they are “correct,” they do it because it makes them money – until it doesn’t. And from the looks of it, diversity consultation firms have been having a bad few months or several, along with certain causes. Guarantee if the shoe were on the other foot and liberal ideas were cause for silencing players, you’d complain – and you’d be right to.
Ah, yes, the “it doesn’t even matter anyway” and “this is silly” retort. Mirasol provided us with serious responses, so I’ll respond in like kind. For the record, calling out “virtue-signaling” is just… virtue-signaling. You and Mirasol are absolutely using these forums as a platform for your values and deriding others for doing the same. It’s patently absurd to believe that discussing aspects of the video game industry somehow does not belong on a video game forum or in a video game. If this is “silly” to you, why respond at all? Incidentally – and I won’t get into the minutiae here – there are many ways TWW differs from DF; the discussion that resulted in my brief silence was during DF, and I feel very much vindicated in TWW.
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See a name someone else wants and then get mass reported and have to get your name changed then the person whispers you with your old name
Starting with Cataclysm, raids have been accessible to everyone. LFR.
Are you seriously suggesting causing physical harm over words? You know what? I don’t care about the rude things people say to me in the game. I don’t report them because an emotional outburst from someone isn’t worth their efforts or their account. If I don’t like what someone says to me, I just put them on ignore.
What you’re suggesting is a criminal offense, far worse than anything any toxic player could ever write in the game.
You’re a dangerous person, and I wouldn’t want to play in the same group as you.
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It’s possible that’s one thing. It’s also possible we’re seeing people who lack empathy and are over rational to the point where they can’t even feel emotion or they bury it.
Imo, they need some help.
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Are we Blizzard CS?
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What does this have to do with what I said and quoted?
You asked if we’re robots. I asked if we’re Blizzard CS since they’re the same thing. Wasn’t a dig at you.
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Ah, I get it now. Sorry.
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neither of those things is true, actually
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This is an incorrect statement and has been debunked several times.
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