Which is entirely the point AND why it shouldn’t be up to player mobs to determine when another player should be silenced, even temporarily.
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Why do you feel that advising other players that you found Johnny’s behavior to be less than desirable is soooo bad, but insist that you have the option to collude with your friends and guild mates to target any other player with harassment in the form of being squelched even if that other player broke no rules?
Double standard much?
Note, I am not condoning “name and shame”.
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It’s actually always been as far as I know, but the thing is its not even an hour of ganking a particular person that’d get you the boot. Your party would have to be causing serious zone disruption to be have actions taken against you.
Are you surprised that someone who appears to be deathly afraid that their behavior will land them squarely on those “blacklists” and being “named and shamed” has the attitude that:\
" One cannot steal from a guild bank one cannot withdraw from.
If the GM is careless with bank permissions, thats THEIR fault."
Is it any wonder that someone with kind of attitude wants to be able to collude with friends and guild mates to try to avoid the consequences of their behavior?
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So I’m a little late to this particular forum battle, can someone briefly tell me exactly what happens currently in live if you get “squelched”? Is there any way that auto report can get someone logged out of the game, disconnected, or temporary banned from playing without it getting GM reviewed first? Or is squelching communication only?
You are temporally muted from chat channels until a GM reviews your case. If found you broke the rules, they apply a silence, if not the mute is lifted and you go on you merry way.
Nope, squelching is communication only. But remember it take quite a few people to initiate a squelch.
BTW, there is No “Auto-report” You have to right click to make it happen.
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Thanks for the reply. Yep I was using auto-report to mean right-click report, will be more specific going forward.
How are they going to report you?
You killed a streamer in PvP. That’s not reportable. That’s not even right-clickable.
His followers would have to log into your faction, and whisper you, or see if you’re in a chat channel. “Omg, I killed Streamer!” you say. Okay, they report that. You get silenced.
Appeal. Point out you killed a streamer, and you suspect false reporting because of that.
If they whisper you? /Ignore. If they’re stupid – and they likely are, or they wouldn’t be doing this in the first place – and go around the ignore, ignore again and open a ticket. Update it with “Ongoing Harassment” in the subject line, refer back.
Guess what happens? Streamers’s followers wind up caught and silenced.
You get temporarily dc’d if you’re silenced, not squelched. It’s not a ban from the game, as that proved not to work as a good deterrent. It’s communication only.
So getting silenced is a step up from squelching?Can you get silenced by mass right-click reporting or is that based on gm action?
IDK about “Silence” being a “Step Up” from Squelching. I do know X amount of reports 'causes the reported User to be auto Silenced with an auto E-Mail “explaining”. It’s not a Human GM reviewing it. A Human GM only comes into play during Appeals.
EDIT: Even then, I question, if I’m appealing with a Human GM or Bot, LOL
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squelch is what happens with the reports, silencing is what happens if the GM decides it was valid.
No, there’s an auto Silence because I’ve had to appeal them, before.
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thats the squelch , it works the same however.
OK, “Squelching” is the slang for “Auto-Silence” and “Silence” is the “official” punishment, when the Appeal fails. Got it!
Silenced is by GM action. They review the reports and see if the complaint(s) is/are valid. If they are,you get silenced. And the punishment doubles. There are people silenced for almost a year.
no squelch is what is auto applied with enough reports, the silence is what happens if the GM decides it was valid.
What is “auto-applied” with enough reports, that works the same, then?
Of course, I was unable to interact with these forums (IK, not in Game), when an X amount of people reported me, for God knows what. It wasn’t until I Appealed and got my posting rights back. This was all within the same day.
So, was I auto “silenced” (unable to interact with others through Chat, including Forums), or a Human GM just saw X amount of Reports, against me and “(auto-)silenced” my account and “unsilenced” it, when I Appealed?
are you talking about a forum ban or an ingame chat slience, or combination of the two? Those are two separate things, unless you do something really bad I would imagine one would not effect the other.
No you were auto squelched, the ‘silence’ part is what happens after a GM reviews it, either on their own or after an appeal. Idun explained it too. asaik the ‘squelch’ lasts 24 hours I think.
People use squelch and silence as 2 different terms(even though the result is roughly the same) to try and avoid confusion as they refer to different actions.
Silence is fine.
Squelch is not.
Do you understand why?
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