If you are going off by yourself to defend a lone tower, without the support of your team, and you never really encounter anyone else to defend against, well, that really isn’t participating.
Of course if you are defending a tower you’re there IN CASE the opposing team decides to attack. There’s no way to know if they will or won’t before hand. The above statement was ridiculous.
At any rate, his supporting the suspensions of players who were reported AFK defending towers in AV was overruled.
I wanted to take a minute to comment on the recent action, and clarify our policies a bit.
We recently discovered a bug in our analytics data that called into question some of these suspensions, and in those cases we will reverse the suspension.
It is not a lie. I’ve witnessed it happen a few times now. Unless the timing of the ban going out just happened to perfectly line up with a group of reporters reporting someone more than once.
No. It’s personal accounts. The most recent one I’ve seen was actually instigated by myself, but it wasn’t even a mass report. It was just me.
Someone had a generally offensive name that he managed to sneak past their censors. I’m in a boost with him on classic era in SFK. He starts talking some crap to me about the reason I’m making an alt and boosting it. I see his name and I decide to report him. He goes offline the SECOND I finished pressing the report button. Instantly offline. The two of us had just finished paying for 5 boosts and we were in the first run of the 5. A few days later he starts sending me hate messages and threats because he got a 3 day ban because of me.
Coincidences happen in a game with millions of players.
If players could automatically ban other players, we wouldn’t have dozens of videos of Stockades Mage bots during P2 of SoD being posted in threads and people begging Blizzard to ban them. We’d have small groups of players handling it themselves. We’d have multiboxers making stream content of banning bots. Taking requests from people who find bot farms and want them banned. We’d have Discord communities policing the game. Why do none of these exist? Why don’t we have any videos of ANYONE getting a group together to ban prolific bots?
None of that has ever happened. All you have to do is imagine the scenarios that would be completely common place and yet have never occurred a single time.
Yeah, a coincidence. That boost was happening at 1 am server time, that server’s time is California time. Blizzard is a California based company. You think the GMs are working around the clock banning people for names the second the report goes out when they can’t even handle their bot problem?
There’s a guy on our classic era server that gets up to some funny business pvping people in ways they don’t enjoy. He’s been banned multiple times through just mass reports from entire guilds reporting him because he can be a bit of a no life.
You’re living in cope. Blizzard has an automated ban system. It’s not a good thing at all.
Players cannot ban other players no matter how much you lie about it. Wasted my time thinking you might have some common sense. Time to keep putting the facts on repeat till you leave.
I get it, it’s scary. I didn’t like that it happened either. In fact, it’s a very scary precedent. I didn’t believe it myself until I actually saw the dude go offline instantly after I pressed report.
So, then I’ll let you explain. What happened to that man? How did he get banned for 3 days instantly after I pressed the report button for having an offensive name?
If it were true that people are auto banned with just one report, there would be zero bots in game. In fact, there would be darn few real players left.