False reporting and automated ban

[Åpocalypse-illidan (Åpocalypse)]

@Thanen-the-scryers

like i said you are crating a fake victim to get your point across ill stand by why i said.i have never been reported since wow launched in 04.

this shouldnt really effect anyone other then big streamers the random joe guy like me wont be effected.i dont care for guild politics or a group of players trying to teach a lesson.

this WILL NOT effect most players.

Since I apparently need to post this now for every single new person coming into this thread (not your fault, given the size of this thread at this point, but still a bit annoying):

The system falls apart when given a real world vanilla situation. See below:

@Åpocalypse-illidan

Now let’s look at a vanilla example… A friend of mine, and a server legend on Stonemaul in vanilla, who ended up passing IRL in Cata: The Shadowpriest Booms.

Booms’s method of making himself (in)famous in vanilla was by becoming the Pirate king of Menethil. He was a Horde Shadowpriest in one of the most accomplished guilds, spent most of his free time sitting on the menethil boat, next to his secondary account’s alliance character named Boomsbot.

Boomsbot’s job was simple… Everyone who wanted to take the boat, had to pay his alliance character a toll, or walk the plank (he spoke in pirate speak the entire time)… He was successful enough at this, for it to allegedly become his primary form of in game gold farming. If you didn’t pay, you got MCd off the boat into fatigue waters until you did. He was ruthless at this…

and he was a LEGEND on the server because of it… He had friends in numerous top horde guilds who would come join in on the fun/get his back if alliance tried to group to take him down, but for the most part he simply became a fixture of every day life for the Alliance there…

I want to be very clear about this… Booms did nothing wrong, and was never once banned for these actions, in fact, Booms was CELEBRATED by both the Stonemaul community in general, and even by Blizzard itself, when he was immortalized as an NPC after his IRL death. https://www.wowhead.com/npc=68985/booms

Now put this same exact situation in the modern right click report/squelch system… Every person Boomsbot talked to probably right clicks his name and reports… It doesn’t matter one damn bit that this is a player that Blizzard themselves celebrate in memorial in game… He’s getting squelched.

He’s now being punished for doing nothing wrong with constant squelches. Moreover, to your assertion that the people reporting him would get banned for causing an inappropriate squelch… ask yourself if they really would? Most of the people reporting him might have even thought that they where doing the right thing in reporting his behavior. Are they punished for trying to use the system honestly? Now what if some people just see him there and spam report him because they don’t like him… How can you possibly differentiate between the reports made in good faith and the reports made in bad faith. Just how much GM time are you now requiring for each and every report to determine intent?

Innocent player would now be getting squelched (repeatedly) for doing nothing wrong in game using the modern system, because some randoms where either triggered by the in game action and seeking “revenge”, or simply didn’t know if Boom’s actions where indeed against the “code of conduct”. The system would be getting abused to punish the player, and zero bans would go out over the abuse because there’s no way to prove the players intent when filing a report.

The schills (4 of which are known forum trolls in Aehl, Padre, Gnocci, and Ziryus) keep ignoring that this system can, will, and does impact rule abiding players, while also ignoring that it can, and will impact people in a much more drastic fashion than the system does on the retail game because of the vanilla era reliance on communication to be able to group. A squelch in Classic is not the same thing as a squelch on retail.