Because penalties stack, and every penalty takes into account previous penalties on the account. Not really a shocker.
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No,it was not by the rules. In fairness and balance,stick to the rules even if their is penalties ,first get silenced but no it was due to favoritism . So there is none and silence is the game ,well wealth knowing just how bad it can get and trust is never earned through such actions.
But you are more than likely the type of person to report me because I kicked you.
Except anyone who has ever received a silence, suspension or ban, knows that they WON’T tell you what you said or did that got you the ban.
People can’t improve their behavior if they aren’t told what they did that was wrong.
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The funny part is all the game does is make popularity=power, and anyone that’s a minority gets punished because the popular ones dislike it. The report/flag button is not used as a ‘this violates the rules’ equivocally it is a ‘I dislike what was posted/the poster.’
Not likely since other than the occasional LFR I don’t do groups. 
I have not been banned. But yes, things like that do happen too.
That is, if they did anything wrong in the first place. Just because you had action taken against you does not mean you 100% did something wrong. If you get an incompetent GM (which exist in just about any game with GMs), you’re basically screwed.
I had to say that before any trolls say “Just be decent” or something else nonconstructive.
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I never said it didn’t happen but when it does happen, it’s extreme cases like botting. Nobody gets “banned” for saying a naughty word. They’ll get suspended, maybe for along time depending on what they said.
And their warning was agreeing to the CoC and the social contract.
In what is mostly a personal concern, Blizz removed a certain size-increasing beer from a vendor in ICC over who it was named after, despite having already name-changed it in datamining.
It was also outright deleted from the game, including my entire stockpile.
I do think they went overboard on some of that.
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They were removed when Blizzard cleaned out the people who made them.
It shouldn’t have taken a massive scandal for them to clean shop, but it is what it is. No use punishing the remaining employees who were probably the victims, or in continuing to peddle the “censorship” idiocy when they literally just added a short-skirted sailor moon outfit last week lol
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This why they have Social Contract we all agreed on this if you swear in game your risking your own account
This community went down the toilet once all these bans and punishments got rolled out.
Want to know who ends up being left? The people who don’t talk. All we needed was an ignore list that was uncapped and account wide. One that made the target character vanish from your game as well so they can’t continue to harass you with toys or whatever.
Playing this game today is a joke. Literally NOBODY is talking. Everyone too scared to say something that will get flagged as a report. Everyone who used to talk getting banned just because one word out of the million other words they typed was a swear that one day.
Congrats on killing the game to create your precious little safespace. First time I ever actually got to level cap without getting a single whisper. Without having a single conversation in party chat. May as well be playing a single player game. The only people I typed anything to were friends I already knew.
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People talk all the time in general and dungeons I’ve been in. And especially BGs XD
The only ones crying about “no one talks anymore!” are the ones that end up getting slapped with a suspension that surprises absolutely no one what for.
Agreed and also reason why people dont even talk in leveling/normal or heroics dungeons (unless someone screws up) ? even in battlegrounds or open world (Warmode)
This whole thing is already dated and most of them are either out by resigning or terminated by them so quit with this old news. The toxicity for the game in this case World of Warcraft is not as toxic as to say the forums. And yeah there are few bad apples here and there ingame but that is to be expected in a global game. And to expect them to enforce everyone and everything yeah that is unrealistic.
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Toxic behavior happens because of rules not being enforced, and poorly thought out game design.
When Blizzard design this game to lack social network and design it for people who don’t have much time to play. Toxic behavior got worse. It has always been bad. It just swing in another way.
Now people time has more value than it really does. Things I feel ruined this game.
Armory
Linking Achievements.
Group Finder. (not LFG.)
Servers no longer matters.
Wow Token.
Some of these things leads to addons being made to track people record and score. Making Pug groups too good, and gatekeeping has become a thing.
Pug groups should be high risk of failing for ease of access. Yet, people time has so much value now, that we min/max pugs.
All this leads to toxic behavior due to bad game design.
What a roller coaster. From “wow this person lives under a rock” to “oh, it’s an old thread” to “oh it’s still this year, so they still live under a rock.”
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Baps elf with newspaper 
Bad necro… bad!
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Still people need reminders of these things and be alert before others get copped