BG Ban wave. Blizzard needs to address this

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Vrakthris just posted this:

Locked my thread and then used language I didn't use

No, you did not. That’s why I said “It sounds like…”. The rest of that sentence is simply to clarify that a squelch is not a ban or suspension. I’m sorry if you felt I put words into your mouth, that was not my intention. If you mean the edit, that was specifically signed by the Support Forum Agent that edited the text. No one should assume you said anything of the kind, that is why we sign those. That is squelched, also called silenced which was originally introduced in 2016. It limits soc…

Maybe the squelch and silence are considered the same thing now that they’re back to actually suspending accounts for chat violations. Here’s the original announcement made for the introduction of the automatic squelch, back in 2007:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070528080211/http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/squelch.html

Here’s the article for the Silence Penalty system introduced in 2016:

New Silence Penalty Coming to World of Warcraft - WoW