Okay Im confused.
I just came back to WOW after a long break and I am excited about Classic. I renewed my subscription today and then logged on and went realm by realm to see all the characters that I had made. It was fun because I will be playing Classic and starting over so I was kind of walking down memory lane checking out the characters.
I came across Judit a lvl 29 Night Elf Hunter that I had from Vanilla days. I noticed that she still had a quiver and arrows in her bags and then I looked closer. I noticed that most of her gear was enchanted and I knew that they shouldnt be enchanted with level 60 AQ enchantments but my helm has a enchantment and my weapon along with most of my gear are “No Longer in the Game” according to Wowhead.
Excited I decided to test and see if my gear would vanish if I tried playing a PVP battle? So I logged onto my Twitch account (where I stream for another game) and streamed me talking about the gear and then remembering to turn XP back on so I could do some PVP and finally a BG match. I had a great time chatting with one of my followers who decided to view and I had no clue what I was doing but all in all it was a blast and my gear didnt disappear.
The reason why Im writing this post is because my original post got Reported? and the post is now hidden. I included a link to the stream as proof.
Im trying to understand what the rules are that I broke by making a post with a video in it, I didnt mean to break any rules and was just honestly blown away finding all my vanilla gear and I thought that with all the excitement around Classic, I thought others would be interested in seeing the gear etc.
I posted it in the classic forums? so just wondering if someone can tell me what was wrong so I dont get banned on my first day back to the game?
Stream link is where you messed up I’m pretty sure.
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The police are probably already on their way.
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Basically… people can report for anything and blizzard will suspend/delete because you “offended” them.
It’s borderline Orwellian.
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It was the stream link, many see it as self advertisement and report it into oblivion.
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ok here’s the big meme
You said your post was hidden, all that means is that a bunch of people flagged down your post for whatever reason. It doesn’t mean that you did anything wrong in particular it just means a certain number of people were triggered by something.
What happens afterwards is that moderator then reviews it and then actually uses Blizzard’s ruling or whatever to see whether or not it actually breaks any ToS or not. Very rarely will you get your post unhidden, the only time I’ve seen it unflagged is when the pride month thread got false flagged.
New forums have an autohide feature if a post receives enough flags. People probably reported it for the stream link and it got put into the moderation queue.
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So linking a stream or a youtube video is against the rules?
If Yes, then thats easy enough to deal with, just cant really deal with the people who say I was lying?
Not necessarily against the rules, but people probably flagged it as promotion. It’ll be reviewed by a mod and either unhidden or deleted.
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You aren’t allowed to post anything that will upset the masses, they will report you to the ends of the earth. Reporting is the new down voting.
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Just for clarity, it’s roughly the opposite of Orwellian.
Just for clarity… it’s not.
You being offended isn’t room for silencing someone.
Don’t @ me bro
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Public moderation is not Orwellian.
Again, it’s roughly the opposite of that.
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It might be in a different context but it is most certainly not the opposite of it.
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Self-selected, self-enforced community standards are roughly the opposite of Orwellian.
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I looked at that post - it looks like you are advertising. You could have taken a screen shot or linked your armory - there was no reason to post a video from your stream with your name on it.
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I dont know too much about Orwell
But common sense would say that if a post doesnt break the rules then it should not be banned,
Giving the community the ability to report on anything that they see as wrong is Mob rules and thats never a good thing. Because we all see things differently and what triggers one person makes another person happy, thats why there are rules and rules should be black and white so they can easily be followed .
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You’re both wrong actually. It’s not borderline, it’s completely Orwellian.
We now return to normal Sunday Forum hijinks.
advertising what?
I used a world of tanks twitch account.
I talked about how i have played warcraft since warcraft 1 and what i loved about the early game.
I talked about what I didnt like about the game.
I then recorded me making my post?
I then talked with one of my WOT followers about my vanilla gear
I then played a BG and laughed having a great time.
I never once talked about watching me, I never once mentioned watching me in the future.
So for you to come to the conclusion that it was advertising is a perfect example of whats wrong with Mob Rules, you are allowed to have something removed even though there is nothing to back up your beliefs.
I would love to hear one thing that I did that could be defined as advertising by someone with common sense?
Does not matter. I am telling you what it looks like. No one is going to going into your video and analyse whether you have a stream or not, based on your comments it appeared you did.
I really don’t see the purpose in even putting that video in there - I have never heard of gear just disappearing once you do a bg.
Anyway, I didn’t report it - didn’t see it but I can understand why people did. They thought you made up an excuse to advertise your stream.
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