Just wanted to let you know I got unbanned after 6 hours of being falsely banned, got an apology and a free month. Get dunked on kid 
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I agree with most of this. I had 1400 honorable kills out of my 96 games on my DK and like 150 or so on my paladin who had 20ish games. The appeals not being viewed at this point is really starting to get old. I know tons of people at this point that are all being left in the dark due to either negligence, understaffing issues, or purely being dodged. We are told 24 hours and many people such as myself and others in this thread that haven’t had their appeals viewed in 4 going on 5 days.
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I was just talking with someone about all this and it made me realize, the people on this forum are saying Blizzard uses automatic bans from player reports in every game.
You can message the rank 1-10 players in Diablo III and report them from the chat window. Anyone who plays D3 knows that none of these botters ever get banned, at least not until the end of the season. If we had an automatic ban from our reports in D3, we’d be slamming these 24/7 (you can see their playtime in D3) bots with bans all the time.
It’s all so tiring to see so many people believe something that is obviously not true.
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Anyone saying its a fully automated system doesn’t understand what they are saying. Its not fully automated, parts of it are for sure but there are definitely checks and balances to the system and in this case a lot of people got banned because one of those checks was just wrong or “bugged” as the dev said. If it was fully automated anyone with 10-15 others could just report anyone they want and get them banned, that’s not the case in WoW.
Yeah, and that’s all I’ve been saying for a long time. If Blizzard handed the playerbase the power to automatically ban anyone with right-click reports, we’d have eliminated botting (probably while hitting tons of innocent players in the process) long ago. Look how savage the players have been with reports in AV. Do these people not think that if we had the power to automatically ban bots with our reports, that hundreds of us wouldn’t have been doing:
/who rogue ramparts
and reporting all the unguilded low level rogues for the entirety of TBC and banning them???
People really don’t think, do they?
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I see someone on reddit only caught a 24 hour ban for afking AV? How come all of us got 7 days?
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On a certain level I think it’s worse that a live person is “reviewing” the reported players and still somehow issuing bans that then need to be reversed upon review. Not only is it a terrible customer experience; but that ends up costing Blizzard more in labor than if they had simply not banned the player after the first review.
The problem is “reviewing” can be a whole lot of things.
Does someone have like a massive PDF file they pour over for hours and figure out things to make sure the computer did it right on a case by case base?
Does it mean they just get a massive spreadsheet from the computer with a list of names. It has a line where above here you are safe, below here you are banned, and they just look to make sure the line is in the place the memo said it should be at before they hit the ban everyone below the line.
Or does it mean someone is sitting in a cubical with their feet on the desk, the computer shoots over the list, someone looks at it for about 20 seconds and then just moves the mouse over to the ok button and everyone gets banned.
All these things classify as a human review. Probably plenty of other examples as well. Almost all of them are useless. Mostly because their is almost no way to actually review them all painstakingly and correctly on a pure human perspective. So the last two are probably actually what are basic human reviews with something of this size. So its just cleaver marketing to say everything is human reviewed. Reports trigger the computer to look, the computer generates a table, a human clicks ok.
Its not like those human reviews are going to fight to hard either. They need that job to pay rent sleeping 14 deep in a single bedroom apartment. So you just click ok when the things happen.
Sad but true.
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Azamous put out a tutorial on how to not get banned in AV. Sound advice.
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Blizz employees “quiet quitting”? It is happening everywhere else, why not Blizzard?
Spreadsheets can be sorted and I am sure there is a column for “# of complaints”. Easy to float the frequent offenders to the top. That being said, put yourself in the position of being the person who is sifting through data. How thoroughly would you investigate in a investment versus return scenario. Throw in a supervisor riding you because you haven’t shown a result for all of the complaints…
Everyone who gets a disciplinary action levelled against them feels it isn’t their fault. It is natural to feel you did nothing to deserve it, even though somewhere deep down you understand there is a chance you did something that was not exactly without reproach. The first time I was booted from a BG I swore it was a group of players that afk-kicked me, and I was pissed. I failed to realize that the minute+ I spent taking a bio break while waiting for a rez in GY actually timed me out. I was still pissed, but I understand there was a reason for it, and complaining serves nobody but myself.
If I am not mistaken, Blizzard announced somewhere that there was an unintended adverse affect from the “big ban” due to a bug. This tells me they understand they did something wrong, and they are at least owning up to it and trying to fix it on a case by case basis. Try to keep in mind how you would like to be spoken to/about if people were coming to you and asking you to help…and reciprocate.
After all, this is a game, not a life and death matter. A day/week/month isn’t a death sentence.
Exactly what we all should be doing regardless of ban fever. Communicating. Team activity and all. In most cases: call incoming, ask about objectives, share add on info (capping), kill npc’s (for the damage meter), announce barbecue time and date, etc.
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LMAO this is great I cant stop laughing best video I’ve seen in forever.
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I sincerely hope some progress is made soon 
i was also suspended just for BG’in and im certain their going to overturn it they just are really backed up with tickets i can imagine. But in my case it has now been 5 days since i opened my ticket.
If they didn’t do it already you are staying banned sorry to say fam.
Decided to take a look at the WoTLK Classic credits:
30 people on the Classic team. Doesn’t include the people who help every now and then as Brian said happens.
x 10000 - its gotten out of hand
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still on day 6 not even a responce to my ticket appealing a random ban starting to loose faith
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i check back on Day 7 to see how my tickets doing. Well aparently weve all gone back in time 1 day cause now its saying its only been open for 5 days.
Blizzard, Math… Its a thing…
that may be an extreme
So…did any1 get unbanned? I aint reading 1500 posts
I did, full reversal within 12 hours.
Many others as well, with full reversal and/or apology and free month.
Others who were found to actually be afk had their bans reduced from 30 days to 7 days.