Blizzard, remove your auto ban system

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

@Divinewind-stalagg

Did you play in the AV PVP Meta ? Alliance premade would report players to make room for more players in the discord.

That wasn’t banning them.

What was happening was, they were reporting them for spam, which kicks them offline to restrict their chat via the squelch function.

@Chillrot-fairbanks

yes there is.

Nope

@Lenarific-ysera

Yes it is asmongold made a like 30 minute video where ppl mass reported him and got him auto banned… instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and going Nooooooooooo im right try using the internet first…

Years ago Asmongold made a video where he told people to mass report him for spam so he could prove that silences are automated. What he proved instead was that the squelch system is automatic, which is different from the GM applied silence penalty.

This is explained here:

We were left with no choice

Let’s try to break down some of your misunderstandings to see if we can help shed a little light on how things actually work. I’ll start here: First off, your numbers are made up. Blizzard has not given any specifics on how many reports trigger a squelch. Which brings us to point 2, the difference between a squelch and a silence. A squelch can happen if enough players on unique accounts report a player for spam. Yes, the squelch is automatic, however, it also gets flagged for a GM to look…