Can you get banned from channels?

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I made one joke about soda poppin getting banned and im banned from lfg? How am I to look for groups? I just dont get this new classic.

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Was the channel actually called “LFG” or was it “LookingForGroup”? If the former, it is a player-made channel and whoever is the owner at the time can ban you from the channel. If the former then I guess technically Blizzard could ban you from the channel, but I’ve never seen an instance of someone being banned from a specific system channel.

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Oh. I may have joined a player owned one then. Cause Its gone. And I cant join it. How do I join the blizzard one?

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My server has no LookingForGroup, some guild got a password on it so everyone has to use trade chat. And every idiot under the sun goes “stop using Trade for LFG, use LookingForGroup!!”

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Same way you join the other ‘official’ channels: Right Click “General” Chat Tab->Settings->Global Channels

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Blizzard added there own LookingForGroup that cannot be controled by players. Go to settings on ur chat and go to other channels and click on the LookingForGroup

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Every server has this. It’s an official Blizzard channel, like Trade and General chats.

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Yeah, was likely a player-created one and the person was most likely one of those streamer fans


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 someone banned you about making jokes about soda?

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If I controlled the player run LFG, I’d ban him for being offtopic. Wanna chit chat, general is that way.

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This is not true. No one can password LookingForGroup. LFG they can, but not the official one.

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I got infracted by Blizzard once for speaking against Asmon. I seriously cannot believe that it’s becoming an “e-crime” to be against streamers. The world really is going to :poop:

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Oh, so this soda is another streamer. I see then.

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Yeah.

Seriously, they didn’t get banned for exploiting. “Stream sniping”, a made-up term that’s trying to make killing streamers a bannable offense gets pushed around. Being silenced for talking about streamers working real jobs. Being banned from channels for making a joke about streamers. Talk about “streamer privilege” and how they “deserve” more than everyone else.

This :poop: is real. I’m buying me a webcam


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If you’re being inflammatory and unpleasant, regardless of whom it’s directed towards, expect consequences.

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Yeah but that constitutes well over half of posts on here. Someone calls someone else a derogatory word for someone of the “other team” and nothing happens. But say that streaming isn’t a real job, get the book thrown at you.

Inconsistency and incompetency at it’s finest, I’m sorry to say.

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That’s either because nobody reported the offender (Blizzard relies on people reporting this behaviour), or the comment under question wasn’t deemed offensive/rude/etc.

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Not always true. I’ve personally reported people for direct name calling and nothing happened.

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Then it probably wasn’t name-calling, or the person was punished but it just wasn’t as obvious as a ban or suspension. All reports are manually reviewed.

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Calling someone a derogatory word for a gay person is name-calling. Anyone competent would agree.

Yes, all reports are manually reviewed but not all reports are infracted equally. I got this from a Blizzard employee. When they say “the appropriate action has been taken”, it doesn’t always mean the right thing was done. The person I spoke to said that sometimes means no action. And that the person looking at the report could be having a bad day and can (if they choose to) overly infract. It’s a :poop: system none-the-less.