This is ridiculous! First time in my life I witnessed a 50 year old being parented and auto squelched, silenced, you name it, by a class of teenagers who disagreed and decided to mass report. Great policy, great system!
And oh all these people who are defending automated bans, “let sleeping dogs lie…”, you will take the responsibility of your actions if the system being implemented to Classic.
Again and again the only authority who will hand out bans should be Activision Blizzard itself neither the communities nor immature teens, adults. No automated squelch system, thanks!
There are no automated bans. Spouting misinformation is not scoring you points. If am confident that you were not squelched due to your “opinions”, and I am wondering how you know that everyone who reported you were teenagers.
Or by “witnessed” do you mean completely fabricated in your head, or a manufactured outrage video made by a streamer?
Please point to the CS thread appeal so we can watch how it plays out.
No. They are not. Silence is much more restrictive. Feel free to peruse the support articles on the issue.
Also, Squelches do not result in a permanent strike against your account. Silences do. Hence why each on will double in length as you accumulate them essentially leading to a permanent silence after a few.
The only people who really seem to complain about it, as I demonstrated above numerous times, are those who get reported for being, for lack of a better term, toxic in public channels and getting reported and subsequently silenced.
That’s because people are acting like a single report, a group of 5/10/40 can trigger it. But see Blizzard already built that protection into the system either proactively or reactively.
Thanks. I really wish I could find the one where a guy claimed he was wrongly silenced after being mass reported. Vrakthis really threw some shade by commenting how the guy left out the part where he discussed certain anatomy. The best was was the guy asked that the thread be deleted and was told “No”
Yeah. And a GM will be the first to tell you, as Vrakthis/Orlyia have said multiple times in the CS forum as well, the mature language filter and ignore features are not blank checks for folks to act like a jerk. Period. Even the Sony Online Excrement GMs knew that.
And it is. Squelching is not a punishment. It’s a protectionary measure kicking in. The Account Silence is a punishment.
It does when they legitimately feel that one player is breaking the rules they agreed to abide by… and continually reaffirm that agreement every time Blizzard sends a major patch down to the client. You know, it’;s that long wall of text you scroll past and click the Agree button. You’ll have to do it again when Patch 8.1.5 is released.
No, it’s not. It’s a portion of the server community, again something people bemoan was “lost” as expansions were released, deciding you’re being destructive to the point immediate action needs to be taken.
Oh, and quit being melodramatic. You’re not very good at it. #SorryBoutIt
And we know you’re not lying like every OP I linked above because…?
I do NOT need to prove anything especially who is too aggressive in respond. I suggest you go out from your house and breath fresh air, it looks like you have been lost in this very treat.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, I have some concerns over this auto squelch system will be abused to some degree. The aggressive way you are responding is not going to change my mind or accept your opinions. Deal with it!
I didn’t like your attitude when I read your posts so I wanted to show you, there are people who are against this automated ban/silence features. And this was the last time you heard from me as I would do how I did in Vanilla and put you on ignore instead reporting you and asking my friends and my family to auto squelch you, thanks.
There is no automated ban. Why do you insist on posting that?
The irony of accusing someone of being “aggressive” for requesting you cease spreading misinformation is not lost on me.
You are to be admired for openly stating you would not abuse the system by getting your fiends and family to gang report people. Guess what though, nobody in this thread (beyond perhaps Williams’ guild) have supported anything of the sort.
Where did you get this information regarding this “squelch”?
As far as I can tell from that very support article, they are the same. There’s no evidence/information about a “squelch” anywhere on their support sites. It’s only silence. And that automated silence that doubles each time is the automated silence that can be imposed by players. The only time you hear about people only getting a few hours of a silence is when they appeal it. Thus, you generally will see people say something along the lines of “I was silenced for 3hrs until a GM finally removed it.”.
They may not even need to appeal it, too. Since, as the site says, a GM will review it regardless.
Because they have chosen to not outline everything.
They are not required or obligated to swoop in and mythbust every time someone makes up stuff about the system like “automated silence that doubles each time is the automated silence that can be imposed by players.”
No matter how many blues are quoted on various facets of the subject, people lawyer the everliving hell out of it. Why should they provide you even more stuff to misinterpret and game?
I see. Alright, so they are probably different. But, you shouldn’t just assume what the differences are then. Since they clearly stated they aren’t sharing the details. You guys are just assuming what said differences are.
And exactly. The people lawyering over it making stuff up when they don’t even know all the details because Blizzard hasn’t shared them. I mean, how do you know it isn’t the silence that doubles each time? Just because he said “limited”?
Look, feel free to scroll up to just under the OP where it lists ALL of the links posted within this thread. I am fairly certain there is one that explains that the automated squelch is 24 hours and only a GM can dictate something be a “silence” which is a length of time decided by that GM.
Again, take a look at that laundry list of links if you want to find info. It may very well be in there.
That is exactly what I found in regards to the silence. It starts at 24hrs and doubles from there.
And I have read most the links. I’ve seen people also say that the restrictions posted here: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/44277 are the same restrictions they had when they were squelched. So, I don’t know what to tell you. There’s a bunch of he said she said when it comes to what players said.
That is why there is a differentiation between “squelch” and “silence”, despite many people claiming they are the same thing. ONLY GMs can institute a silence. The automated squelch is not multiplicative.
In truth, that doesn’t really make a difference from what I understand. Since, when you get squelched, you get reviewed regardless. A GM will decide if you deserved it. If you didn’t, the silence is removed and your account is left in good standing. If you did, the silence duration is left alone if it’s your first offensive. Otherwise, increased appropriately in relation to the doubling. In the end, it doesn’t matter if they are different because the end result is the same. You are either let off early, or silenced for the appropriate duration.
I mean, I guess there could be that insane situation where a GM can’t review your report within 24 hours. So, you come back and start talking again only to be reviewed later and the silence to be applied again. But, that’s probably pretty rare, if it happens at all.
