False reporting and automated ban

Malfosa-whisperwind · February 23, 2019, 3:04pm

People really need to go back and look at all those links I posted above

They protest too much methinks…

Ziryus-doomhammer · February 23, 2019, 3:04pm

Smiles:

Ziryus:

Smiles:

I’ve never understood why this sheer fisting of system was ever implemented when we have /ignore.

The ignore system worked perfect. Oh you dont like what someone had to say because your snowflake personality who took offense to what they said. Well you can ignore them in perpetuity and never ever hear from them again.

Instead we got. Oh your snowflake personality cant handle the internet so lets silence someone globally because you cant handle words.

Or maybe you’re the special snowflake if you’re so worried that people might not like what you have to say and you end up squelched

That’s some serious mental gymnastics there.

There is a big difference in you the player choosing what you want and don’t want to see. And you the player deciding for other players what they can and can not see.

How can you be this thick and not understand this?

Not really being upset about what someone else said is fundamentally no different than being upset someone else doesn’t want to hear want to hear what you said.

Smiles-malorne · February 23, 2019, 3:04pm

Jesus, this has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Last I checked the Constitution has absolutely no power in this game, and it shouldn’t.

People reserve their right to silence me if they disagree with me. I have no problem with that.

I do not agree with one person silencing me globally because they dont like what i have to say. If you do not like what i have to say. You dont have to see it. But that does not give you the right to silence me globally because you personally disagree with me.

What were dealing with is subjective. What one person might not like to hear does not mean others do not want to hear it. No one person should decide for other what they can and cannot see.

Do you really not understand this?

it gives power to players not to mob mentality.

Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2019, 3:07pm

You’re in luck!

Only a GM can institute a silence.
Only a set number of the public (a number greater than 1) can squelch a player

Defac-aegwynn · February 23, 2019, 3:08pm

I know this thread is weeks long and thousands of posts, but take some time to read the highlights. It’s not a single person. Blizzard will never say what the number is, but it takes multiple reports.

Ziryus-doomhammer · February 23, 2019, 3:09pm

Then it’s a good thing that 1 single person cannot silence you now isn’t it. So if you’re getting squelched it’s because you were annoying multiple people in some way and maybe you should take your time out and think about that.

Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders · February 23, 2019, 3:12pm

That’s not how it works, it takes more than one person to be squelched. That effect is temporary until a GM reviews it. If you are Silenced, it mean a GM reviewed it and agreed with the reports. Squelch doesn’t affect your account whereas a Silence adds a blackmark.

Defac-aegwynn · February 23, 2019, 3:21pm

So I’m retrospect I’m pretty confident this was 100% troll bait by a forum alt to keep the thread going and it worked on me. Bummer

Smiles-malorne · February 23, 2019, 3:22pm

So were totally ok giving power to a vocal fringe minority instead of the player, got it.

Defac-aegwynn · February 23, 2019, 3:25pm

LoL if not wanting gold spammers or racist slurs in my trade chat = fringe minority, sure pal

Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders · February 23, 2019, 3:26pm

And yet people like you are fine with Public Blacklists and Callouts.

Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2019, 3:28pm

Try to apply this same logic to the real world. That dog doesn’t hunt.

Smiles-malorne · February 23, 2019, 3:34pm

Way to take it to the absolute extreme to fit your narrative. Meanwhile rejecting my extreme narrative that this system could so easily be abused by the fringe minority to silence differing views, opinions, and ideas.

The fact is one system allows a singular players to see things they want and to cut out things they don’t want to see.

The other system that you are so graciously for allows the opportunity for corruption, manipulation, and collusion for fringe minorities to run a gambit on what their subjective view of speech that can and cannot be seen.

Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders · February 23, 2019, 3:36pm

If you want to discuss those, do so on Facebook, not in game.

Smiles-malorne · February 23, 2019, 3:38pm

So people arnt allowed to have differing views, opinions, and ideas about a game,their story lines, heros, cities, boss stratagies? They must go to FB to discuss such topics?

Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2019, 3:39pm

ed it

Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders · February 23, 2019, 3:39pm

Ah I see, you are now twisting what was said to suit your agenda

Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2019, 3:40pm

Smiles-malorne · February 23, 2019, 3:44pm

Clearly you people do not understand the difference between giving the player the power and not the vocal minority the power. And how the later is prone to immense corruption, manipulation and collusion.

Clearly this is lost on you, I’m out.

Defac-aegwynn · February 23, 2019, 3:45pm

This is absolutely not what you said when you came into this forum. Your first post said:[quote=“Smiles-malorne, post:3482, topic:89166”]
. Oh you dont like what someone had to say because your snowflake personality who took offense to what they said. Well you can ignore them in perpetuity and never ever hear from them again.
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Your specific problem was that snowflakes can’t handle seeing things that offend them. This is the first time you said anything about abusing the system. Clarify your argument. The system does have potential for abuse and that’s something to talk about and hopefully get some feedback from blizzard on. But the intent of the system is quite literally for exactly the “absolute extremes” I mentioned.

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