But for some strange reason a player gathering his minions to target that person with a squelch is not targeted harassment? Why is that?
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Holy smokes man. Times have changed.
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They have the courage to speak an honest and valid opinion in a public forum and you donât?
UmâŚyou really dont know me very well, do you?
Holy smokes man. Times have changed.
Yes they have.
You cant get away with things anymore.
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Hey Studmuffyn
They have the courage to speak an honest and valid opinion in a public forum and you donât?
Id LOVE to hear your take on that.![:rofl:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/rofl.png?v=6" ":rofl:")
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I forgot that BFA is a single player game. People donât remember how Vanilla used to operate.
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I forgot that BFA is a single player game. People donât remember how Vanilla used to operate.
Nope, BFA isnt single player and yes, they do remember.
Which is why online lynch mobs, name and shame, and harassment are not permitted and why those rules will be enforced.
You got away with it back thenâŚyou arent going to get away with it now.
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If you have never had the courage to publicly display an unpopular opinion then I know all I need to know. 
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I mean almost immediately someone proposed a real world solution that already exists and would perfectly address your example. Boomsbot canât get squelched, all the reports against him still get reviewed by a gm. You dismissed that immediately because apparently tweaking an imperfect system is a worse idea than just destroying the system entirely and abandoning it.
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You got away with it back thenâŚyou arent going to get away with it now.
Thanks for assuming I used to do that. Iâm going to assume you were that ninja looter who was blacklisted and is still upset to this day then. You can try and hide behind Blizzardâs ToS/CoC but that wont stop people from keeping track of the ninja looters to maintain a friendly playing environment.
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Lol good point. I was trying to think of an example in classic where this would happen outside of just trolling for trollings sake. Guess I failed.
Now you have the discussion about how much review actually happensâŚ
GMs are largely underpaid cubicle slaves making ~$10/hour⌠They almost assuredly have daily workload quotas to meet, because thatâs how corporations go⌠They ALREADY barely, if ever, actually do more than just ârubber stampâ whatever the auto report function was already doingâŚ
Now youâre expecting them to see an account flagged as immune, but then still ignore that and fully review the case? This isnât an episode of CSI⌠this is a low wage employee trying to work through a giant daily quota as fast as possible to keep their job, so they can pay off the loan on their 15 year old barely functioning honda civic, and eat raman noodles in their postage stamp 1 bdr apartment while studying for whatever courses they are taking at the community college that happens to be near the Blizzard building. Please stop pretending they remotely give a single damn large enough to launch any kind of sweeping investigation or give more than a passing glance at each ticket. I bet you think Public Defenders put 100s of hours into every case, too.
Yeah⌠Aehl is pretty off his rocker compared to an authentic vanilla era mindsight⌠Sadly, the demographics of this game have pretty drastically changed, and for the worse in that regard.
First, in the three times Iâve posted that story now, he was literally the first to actually provide anything resembling a solution for the issue. So letâs not pretend it was simply asked and answered so quickly as you are incorrectly insinuatingâŚ
Secondly, his actual response has major flaws in that it creates an even more problematically unfair system.
On the contrary, itâs exposing the flaws of the system to begin with⌠The entire reason we have this automated garbage in modern wow is because Blizzard wanted to trim labor costs. The problem is that solution has pretty substantial negative consequences, ESPECIALLY in a vanilla environment where being squelched can more or less make you entirely unable to play the game in any meaningful setting.
The only proper solution is increasing the GM staff for classic, in order to lower their workload per employee and FORCE ticket responses to actually include offending text (hint: right now, many, if not most, do not)âŚ
What in the world are you rambling aboutâŚ? Do you even know? Your incoherent rant and attempted accusations here are a prime example of exactly why a player like YOU, should not, in any meanginful way, ever have the power to squelch another player⌠Ditto that for Aehl. Hell, ditto that for myself⌠Iâd have already permanently banned you AND Aehl just for the rampant stupidity youâve vomited forth in this thread alone⌠and thatâs kind of the point⌠PLAYERS are bias when it comes to dealing with other players⌠and itâs downright lunacy putting the power to effectively prevent other players from playing the game in the hands of players themselves.
No one is arguing about making people immune from repercussions, just that such power should rest exclusively in an independent body (in this case GMs)⌠Blizzard needs to realize that this system has significantly different impacts for a Classic realm, vs a live realm because of how much more important communication is to a Classic realm, and then they need to provide a much more authentic version of a vanilla era GM system to Classic⌠It will mean higher labor costs for them, but the quality of the product itself is at stake hereâŚ
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By that logic, they should keep the automated system because GMs would never have the time to review each individual ticket the old system would have created.
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Thatâs is what these people are hoping for, to run their mouths with impunity and hoping on the under paid over worked lazy GMâs to just glaze over their nonsense.
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Typically when I see this attitude what the poster really means is:
âI canât be a raging a-hole to everybody. More people play my video games and Iâm bitter that itâs not a niche hobby anymore, because people used to riducule gamers but now itâs mainstream and Iâm not special. Now people want me to not actively offend everyone around me and not being a jerk is apparently difficult for meâŚsomething something libturd something snowflakesomethingbutteremailsMAGAfjshfkejdkajfjâ
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If you have never had the courage to publicly display an unpopular opinion then I know all I need to know.
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Twinkedd
I can gaurantee youâŚan inability to state an unpopular opinion has never been a weakness on my part .
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Iâm going to assume you were that ninja looter who was blacklisted and is still upset to this day then
Nope.
Didnt play in 04. Was too busy leading a team and looking after home affairs.
I can attest to this, as i hate Aehl with every fiber of my being. and if i agree with the ausie on something, itâs a big deal.
Thatâs basically it, in 2004 the internet was a ââfreeââ place to be whoever you want to be and people grew up being pricks and now that the internet has changed to push pricks out or at least edit them theyâre very very upset about that,which is why we have insults like libtard being flung around because ââ oh you people are just thin skinned âŚor or i donât want to have to put up with your B.S and am not willing to just remove myself from a game/forum to appease your ego.ââ
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as i hate Aehl with every fiber of my being.
Ouch.
Thats a little harsh, isnt it?