I’m aware that the action against my accounts will likely be upheld. That’s why I’ve created a brand new battle.net account with five new WoW accounts on it. I’m starting from scratch, and this time around, I’m going to make sure that I have nothing on my computer that could be identified as a cheating software. I’ve removed ISBoxer from my PCs entirely.
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Keep in mind that there are a lot of software that insert themselves into the system and auto launch when certain things/software start. Launch task manager and see what is running. Best is to uninstall.
Update: Blizzard is currrently in the process of reactivating my accounts!!!
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Very happy to hear you got this resolved AND you came to share it with us. This proves the appeal process does indeed work, and just because it is escalated does not mean it is a done deal.
Hope you are up and running soon bud.
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Thank you for the kind words. 
I also wanted to thank Game Master Staordyn, who worked on my case in Live Chat today. They were patient with me and took the time to answer all questions.
All my accounts have been reactivated.
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Just wanted to say I’ve been following this since the start and I’m so happy to hear this got resolved. There’s cheating and there’s genuine misunderstandings and this sounded like the latter. Glad Blizz took the time to work through this with you and you got a favorable outcome
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Happy to hear your issue was resolved amicably and to your satisfaction. The appeals process does indeed work and good to see someone like you who enjoys the game able to be back with us.
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Also, in case anyone wanted proof, here’s the “reactivation email” I got from Blizzard.
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Interesting. That’s reads like your accounts were compromised. In any event great news and now you don’t have to start from scratch!
By the way, you said you used live chat? I wasn’t aware appeals could be done through there.
I think your point is sheer ignorance on how the system works and believing streamers as a credible source, considering generally they create drama for views.
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Video is a credible source but ok
Edit: I have personally seen the name reporting kick someone mid raid durring a servers race to kill the last boss of the raid when SSC classic came out to slow the team down aswell.
Which flags it for a GM to look into and if needed, flag it for a name change. What it doesn’t do is force a player offline our out of a match. Mass reports for AFK would, however, force them out of a match. Since you can’t see either type of report in-game, it’s much more likely that a player was kicked from a match for being AFK reported.
Which at the very most can only squelch the account and again, not kick the player from the game.
I’m not following with this comment. Is it “3 or 4 people” reporting or 15? Only one report counts from each battle.net account.
Yes, and if my memory is right, it was a decision that cost them their position. But I’d have to go back and see if my memory is correct.
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The name reporting was used by multiple streamers back in BFA, and by squelch do you mean mute? Along with that I mean to actually get blizzards attention since it seems as half there ticket replies take days to get back to you and usually avoid the topic asked about is avoided and they give some seaming scripted replies, you usually have to submit many tickets to get one valid response, on the other hand if you and 2 or 3 friends report someone it is addressed more clearly and a lot sooner. Also the fact that they were caught doing it doesn’t invalidate the claim. Hope that replies to all of your concerns and have a nice day.
Oh yeah, they was canned for doing that.
Also, the “I love wow” knucklehead released a video of the event making sure to edit out the suspension he got for abusing the reporting system. Sorry, anything a streamer does or says is questionable at least.
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Squelching is basically an automated silence that occurs after a reporting threshold is reached. Yes, it can be abused. When a squelch goes into place, whoever is squelched gets to enjoy the full effects of a silence (including the inability to use Group Finder, mailboxes, etc.) until a GM reviews the situation and determines whether the squelch should be overturned or converted to an official silence.
But do note that squelches are entirely irrelevant to this particular topic.
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The name reporting system hasn’t changed since BFA and still requires a GM to flag the name for change, so that doesn’t matter really.
I mean a squelch. A squelch is part of the system to help abusive chat, spam and specifically it was introduced to prevent gold spammers from posting their illicit wares originally.
Now you’re confusing two completely different systems. Right-click reports don’t give you a GM reply which is how you report names, afk and language. So you’d need to provide context around what you’re referring to now.
That said, tickets are closer to 24 hours.
Again, tickets are not right-click-reports. And no, usually a single ticket is sufficient, but many simply don’t like the response and continue to place tickets for issues that can only be handled via a ticket.
No, but one single instance in how many years now that WoW has been operating that the end result cost the employee their job and likely any possible job references too 
It’s a silly thing to bring up and has no bearing on the issue at hand.
I get that you seem to have an axe to grind Sinbad, but this is not the place for hyperbole and misinformation.
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Yes, squelch is applied first, then once GM investigates it’s either removed or a penalty issued (suspension etc).
Templates are used constantly. Both as a time saving thing and to provide uniform information across the board depending on the issue at hand.
Interestingly though, generally if they were reporting using right click reporting (name, language etc), a ticket isn’t generated.
That’s a forum post action, not in-game… Nice try.
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considering i just got a message saying i have been reported and my posts has been hidden because of it kinda proves my point that the report system is easily abused
Have a nice day imma get off forums for a bit since apearently people report instead of argue now a days
That is entirely possible, but not necessarily because of the reports. It usually is because the name of the character has likely already been reported previously and that name is on a list of names that have already been reviewed and deemed inappropriate. In those situations takes nearly very little time to penalize other characters who may have been reported for the same name.
Yeah, that’s the forum moderation system which absolutely has automated elements. It’s pretty clearly telling you that it has been hidden to await review and what happens next depends on if a moderator deems it inappropriate or not.
I’m not sure what kind of gotcha you were going for there, Sinbad, but in-game and forums are entirely different entities.
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