I propose that the label “Boosturd” be the official WoW term to describe Chat spamming boosters advertising in lfg every 5 seconds.
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boosting is a vital service especally to the human warrior and paladins whomst seem to be buying alot of boosts these days, and the people wanting to trade horde gold for alliance gold, don’t know why they are doing so.
There trading horde to allie gold while it’s cheap to do so. It only gets more costly when more people want to do it as wrath gets closer. Allie becomes the more favored faction come wrath.
As much as I agree with the sentiment, I’m gonna suggest you change that, as it could catch you a ban.
No, it really isn’t.
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You can just report them for cheating and listed as “Boost sales” and they will catch a ban.
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Maybe, but it will just prove blizzard favors a community that holds back the spirit of the grind and promotes chat spamming and economic deflation
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They won’t boosting is allowed by the rules so long as done for in game gold or items and not being done by a large organization that spams multi realms/servers.
As such if it’s just some guy boosting to make gold that is rather common it’s completely fine.
Bot boosters yes you can report for cheating and organizations you can but that is vary different than your blanket report them all statment, furthermore for “boost sales” that is permitted and in fact your account can be actioned for making to many false reports if your mindlessly reporting. Your better of reporting for spam and leaving it to blizzard to do something or making a accurate report if you want something done vs spamming reports that are quite likly false.
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Seriously - how can you tell the difference?
I report anyone plugging general chat with boost spam for both cheating, then spamming.
I have largely been ignoring LFG and Trade chats, though they’re terrible on Bene.
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Organizations there spams are norm quite easy to tell as they include a website more often than not.
Bots much harder.
For that reason just reporting everyone for cheating makes 0 sense as you yourself said you don’t know the different and the action is not cheating in most cases you see esp as the one advertising is not the one boosting in the case of bots quite often. While thou rare it can happen as mentioned of blizzard actioning you for to many false reports. Reporting all them that are spamming thou for spam is fine so long as they are posting there message more than at a “reasonable” rate and that’s subjective so a safe report to make. A example of people banned for false reports are multiboxers using the report auto temp ban function to logout comp when mining. A extreme example showing blizzard rarly dose so but the possible ban dose exist and people have been thou more common is just your abilty to report revoked.
Well the spam is causing an issue with open world group requests as it crowds out the posts of people trying to actually use the channels to connect with others.
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To be fair, all a report does is tell blizz to take a look at this. It doesn’t instigate an action by itself (at least, not without a large number of reports, and that’s not confirmed).
Maybe he’s cheating, maybe he’s not, Blizzard can sort it out, I just hit the report button is a valid strat.
Yea which is why you report for spamming if they are spamming and no once is not spam as that is a legit use of the channel.
You can think that but none the less telling blizzard to look at it uses times and clogs the system why blizzard dosent like false reports some are fine and happens but when an account becomes known or has a history of false reports blizzard becomes more likly to take action. Your fine to keep report spamming if you want it’s no sweat of my back but non the less it is actionable and blizzard has in the past.
But yes just reporting is a valid strat when not being abused. Doing it to everyone which if using my server as an example is hundreads of people that is abuse of the system to report all for cheating with what is at best a guess.
Where’s the false reporting, exactly?
I’m not claiming you should just report willy-nilly anyone you don’t like. But I am saying blizzard doesn’t pay you, and the whole interaction shouldn’t really go beyond “this looks fishy I’ma report it”. You don’t have the tools to possibly know on your end.
Leave finding the proof to them; the report tool is merely saying “hey, check this, it looks fishy”.
As mentioned you can think that way if you want none the less there is clear evidence and rules set by blizzard to prevent false reports meaning any report given in error. Which has been used as shown in my example to action players falsely reporting others for cheating when doing an action that is commonly botted in my example mining.
You don’t have to agree with it or like it blizzard has actioned people for even more subjective things such as afking in bgs. Fact is it’s actionable. As such keep doing if you want it’s yours to risk I have given my fair warning which was the point of my post. A few false ones is fine and happens reporting everyone that posts to sell a boost is vary likly to be seen as abuse.
Wrong. You’re missing my point entirely.
Blizzard actions false reports, yes. Reports where it’s plainly clear the tool is being abused.
That’s not what I’ve been talking about at all though. If you genuinely had reason to believe your report was legitimate, or could be legitimate, you will not be actioned.
Reporting isn’t a test where getting the wrong answer bans your account. “any report given in error” is straight up wrong. Reports being used to maliciously punish is what gets you punished for false reporting.
As mentioned you can think that if you like. None the less there is examples that show it as not correct. Blizzard has in retail actioned people for reporting everyone that posts to selll a carry via removing there report rights. It might not be common but it happens non the less. This is the same as the suggested report everyone that posts to sell boosts only changing carry to boost which are the same thing.
You can not agree or not like it all you want none the less it is actionable.
No they wont be banned. Boosting for gold is still allowed.
The only part of boosting that was banned is the big websites that were
advertising.
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Spam is spam. Plug up my windows with ninsense, and you’ll get reported. Boosting is crap, and I’m happy to report all that.
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This. My rule of thumb is seeing a persons message a few times without having to scroll LFG consistantly, or people who spam their LFG macro 5 times in a row, especially if they do it in multiple channels.
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