This is very easy to resolve. Don’t say stuff that is against the rules. Keep the “banter” to private chat. It is not really hard to be a decent human being and there is nothing cool about being a jerk. Despite what the internet tells you.
If you are here complaining about “snowflakes”, the issue might be you being sensitive when you don’t have a safe space to be a jerk. (or your friend does not)
If toxic jerks are what attracts you and it bothers you that they are shut down, tough.
Squelch is automated if there are enough reports. Silence is only applied by a GM.
7 previous warnings. Still did not learn. The problem is not the system.
None of the Support staff were laid off. They laid off publishing, marketing, community and esports.
The only automated part is squelch if a ton of reports come in - that has been in game for a LONG time and is really for gold sellers and spammers, but if you upset enough people it can trigger there too.
Look. Destiny can even confirm that I’m one of the people who used to counter-troll him when he was being a jerk. It’s his gimmick, and it’s his streaming persona. He demands that people call him Lord Destiny, and if people don’t he gets on his alliance monk and kills people in wpvp. He’s literally ingrained into the community on Arthas. If someone can’t handle him demanding that people bow down to him, then it’s their problem. He’s not harming anything. I’m actually arguing from a viewpoint on the opposing side. You don’t have to like it, and you don’t have to participate in it.
I’ve personally witnessed people being autosilenced through reporting by multiboxers. I’ve witnessed people being autosilenced through guild participation of reporting. It’s a broken system.
I remember this way differently, apparently the reports were warranted, reviewed and upheld. That what was reported was not beneficial to the game or the community. I’m not sure why you’re continuing to drag this argument out, but your not helping the op, and spreading misinformation.
Indeed, if people don’t like Blizzard’s rules, they don’t have to participate in the game.
Squelch is automated - yes. However, if the person does NOTHING wrong, that is easy to overturn and the people who abuse the report system to target someone, get punished.
8 silences that were not overturned even with appeals. System working as intended. The whole point is that people who can’t behave civilly are not welcome to engage in public social activities. Being socially ostracized or shunned is an age old way to enforce community norms.
If someone wants to engage with him, they can still join a group with him and chat. Or join his guild.
Yes yes, the sky is falling. Even if we give you your incorrect assertion that silences are typically automated, nobody is saying they didn’t deserve them. The silenced themselves agree they broke the rules, and we all agree appeals are not automated and the bans are being upheld.
Perhaps streamers or other notorious players are being held to a higher standard than regular players, because their transgressions are more likely to be reported. Tough. Still breaking the rules. Still not learning their lesson. Still need to stop.
You’re not listening. Those are reports for spam. Yes, those will squelch an account and in many cases, those end up in silences applied by a GM.
In fact, a streamer tried this nonsense out and those who abused the reporting system were actioned.
The OP is looking for a new gimmick since the one they’re using isn’t just “trolling”. It’s breaking the code of conduct. At least the OP is mature enough to admit that they’ve been wrong.
Perhaps if you hold Destiny to such a high standard, you should follow suit and understand that the rules are there for a reason and that you don’t get to break them for your “gimmick”.
No, you are incorrect. These are reports for language and cheating I’m referring to. The silence is immediate, and the email sent to the offending account detailing the silence is immediate.
The silence is not immediate. If you think people you are reporting for language and especially cheating (which isn’t even part of the silence system at all) are getting immediate silences, then you are very much mistaken.
Edit: Considering you think even reporting for cheating (which goes to a different department altogether) is giving out silences and that’s what you’re going to stick to, then I don’t think anyone is going to be able to convince you of just how mislead you really are.
Now you are trolling. Hoping for a mod to lock this thread. I don’t understand why people push broken talking points? They are not even trying anymore.
This would be the very first and unsubstantiated claim of such a thing happening in the CS forums that I’ve seen.
Reporting for cheating simply does not apply silence. Further posts will simply be reported as you seem to have some silly agenda to push that not only doesn’t make sense, it has nothing to do with this thread.
You are the one who is here complaining. You might want to reassess who is being a “snowflake.”
It’s not Blizzard’s doing. It’s the players. Take some responsibility.
You can have rivalries without breaking the rules.
You are. You can troll without breaking the rules. Someone reporting another player for breaking the rules is not the “snowflake”.
There is no automatic silence. There is a squelch when many players report you in a short period of time. It is then reviewed by a GM and, if warranted, a silence is applied.
If they didn’t do anything to break the rules, they aren’t silenced. The responsibility here is on the player, not Blizzard.
If the player didn’t say anything that broke the Code of Conduct, nothing would be done. If they are getting silenced it’s their responsibility to change, not Blizzard.
Blizzard’s sandbox, Blizzard’s rules. If Blizzard determines a Silence is warranted, it’s applied. It’s done by their standard, not yours.
No. It’s not. A silence is applied by a GM. An appeal is done by a second GM. If you appeal again, a third GM looks at it. The only “automated” thing is the Squelch. It’s in place to help quickly silence spammers. If players are being squelched before they are being silenced it means the majority of the community doesn’t want to see their spam.
It’s not broken. It is working as intended. If you have a better idea, post it in General Discussion where the Devs can see it.
The one who is mistaken is you. The squelch existed since they put in the right-click>report system. Long before they started using Silences. Back then a player would have a suspension instead of a silence, where they can’t play at all. It was in place for years before streamers/youtubers found it and “advertised” the feature. The reason players are getting silenced is because of this advertising. Other players now know that the right-click>report is not a panacea. It actually does something.
Do you work at Blizzard? Do you know for a fact that those redundancies changed any procedures at Blizzard? The only thing that has changed is that players now know that it works. The system itself is the same.
It doesn’t matter. Blizzard’s sandbox, Blizzard’s rules.
If it breaks the rules, it can be reported.
No you didn’t. You saw a squelch, not silence. The system is not broken. It is working as intended. You mean that it doesn’t work the way you feel it should. That doesn’t make it broken.
You are not the one making the reports. You do not know this for a fact. As well, the player receiving the silence may feel they know when the report for the Silence happened, but they don’t. The silence could have been for something they said the day before, or the week before. Correlation does not imply causation.
As reviewed and upheld by a GM. It’s not done just on the say-so of players. Ever.
There isn’t any automated silences. All silences are applied by a GM. The only ‘automated’ part is that the system is smart enough to double the length of the silence on its own.
That may very well be the case, but the ‘why’ is irrelevant. We’re contractually obligated (License Agreement is a contract) to follow the rules, we agree to do so, the ‘why’ someone broke them doesn’t matter, all that matters is that they did. They broke their legal promise, and by all rights Blizzard would have full authority to revoke the player’s account, then and there. They’re considerably kinder than that though.
No, it isn’t. Being a jerk isn’t against the TOS, but many things that go into being a jerk are.
When participating in communication of any kind (chat, voice communication, group finder), you are responsible for how you express yourself. You may not use language that could be offensive or vulgar to others.
Hate speech and discriminatory language is inappropriate, as is any obscene or disruptive language. Threatening or harassing another player is always unacceptable, regardless of language used. Violating any of these expectations will result in account restrictions. More serious and repeated violations will result in greater restrictions.
While we encourage you to report players that are behaving in a disrespectful manner, falsely reporting another player with the sole intent of restricting their gameplay is also unacceptable and will result in penalties to your account.
A player can be actioned if they are falsely reporting regularly, if they are targeting a specific player all of the time, if the player being reported is not breaking the rules. If your claim that players are targeting the OP for “no reason” is true, they will be handled by Blizzard.
You are making a lot of assumptions about the reports and the account actions. You only know your own reports. You do not know who else is reporting. You do not know what they are reporting. You don’t know how often they are reporting. You don’t know what report is being investigated.
Until this post I didn’t know who this player was. I may have reported them. It would have had nothing to do with them being known or having a Youtube channel. There were streamers and Youtubers who did the recent bug exploit and they got game suspensions for 31 days. There have been streamers and Youtubers that have had their accounts banned. Being known does not exempt you from the rules.