What if the person who is flagging and reporting have to have their name public. The right of the accuser. I bet that would severely decrease the abuse.
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If they insist on keeping this flagging system as it is, I hope they implement that. No more anonymity for flagging a post or topic.
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Can you not see the difference between that and this.
If everyone was getting banned for that since the blue post then that means the system is not working as it is because people are still complaining about this.
I don’t believe the system should be such that under normal circumstances any one person is capable of doing this.
And it wouldn’t help with the current system if you did make their character name public because we run into the same problem as what is causing this. People can freely just switch posting characters.
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Well it definitely would leave a paper trail to follow for abuse. I do agree the multi char logging is a prob and should not really be allowed because of abuse.
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Someone was caught liking their own posts early on in this, they also managed to bury posts and lock down threads. They posted for weeks after that - that is why I don’t think people are getting banned for this and this person actually still posted on the character they got caught on, so I don’t think that did much to deter them.
I actually think make a person’s name public would just create more conflict on this forum. I don’t remember a single post that I flagged that it would bother me for someone to know I flagged them. However, I have been told I have ‘no sense of humor’ because on occasion I have told people what I have reported. In fact, someone told me if a post is ‘well received’, then it is okay for it to break the rules.
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Was a bad decision by Blizzard to allow a predominantly immature player base. The ability to police itself. Just so they can fire a bunch of workers from their business, to cut their costs for Actiblizz. Watch me get flagged by the immature, and end up not being able to post for a couple days. Just for telling the truth about how bad Blizzard has become. Which always seems to happen to me!
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… you seriously need a better hobby than harping on semantics. ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
This is why I try not to respond to you most of the time. All you ever want to do is create arguments for the sake of arguing over nitpicky little things.
And, of course, it couldn’t be any other reason than “people with multiple alts” that gets threads flagged and locked, hmm? Absolutely no other way. Nope. Clearly not.
I mean, why would a bunch of different people reading through threads not flag inappropriate stuff or why wouldn’t a bunch of different people flag for trolling, right? Yeah, that’s never happen. It’s only people that flag on multiple characters.
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I would be quit happy for you never to respond to me but since you tried to dismiss in effect what i was saying with false information I thought it should be pointed out.
For a ‘writer’, I am surprised you aren’t more precise in your word usage.
As for individuals misusing flagging that is a different issue and while it is entirely possible in the example given in this thread, in fact very likely since you have two threads with opposing viewpoints being presented and both sides who have vested interests in shutting down the others thread. That generally isn’t a problem because normally both sides are presented in one thread and both sides have more of a desire to keep a thread going.
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As someone who has met the cap for flagging twice since the new forums rolled out, you need to understand something.
Spamming and trolling are against the ToC. Appropriately flagging them as such will never be met with punishment.
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Not false information. Everyone else got the point except you. Meaning it’s a you problem.
Nice use of quotations in an effort to insult me. I’m a writer, not a lawyer. My post was followed up with a quote to supplement it. You’re the one who chose to keep harping on something that was clarified, simply to try to prove you’re better than others.
Shall I point out where you were wrong about the term banned?
No, it’s the same outcome when threads get locked, therefor part of the same issue that you’ll simply dismiss because it was pointed out that you didn’t even manage to take that part of it into account.
How do you know it’s not an issue of multiple people flagging it? Are you a moderator? No? Then you don’t know this as fact. It doesn’t matter who posts what opinions, there are still a lot of others who will use the flag as a dislike and move on.
I’m not sure who piddles in your Cheerios every day, but you might want to ask them to stop. Or piddle in their cornflakes. You’ll have more fun if that bad part of your morning is gone. As will others.
I’m out. I’ve said my part and I don’t want to derail the thread any longer. Enjoy your day.
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have fun with your female avatars nice guys.
I’ve mentioned how not all reports/flags are treated the same way or consistently. Not long ago, someone insulted me, switched alts and quoted himself and tried to reinforce the insult. The posts contained absolutely nothing else but pure insult. Both were reported and the posts remain to this day and they still post.
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LOL I have been told on here once that I was liking posts on my alts. Someone tried to look at my pet collection or something to prove it was me. I never looked at their evidence BECAUSE I KNOW I DIDNT DO IT. If it worked, it must have been some kind of bug. Yet, they kept saying I was liking posts on multiple alts. I have multiple alts (playing this game since launch helps that) but I have never used more than 1 like or 1 flag on a single post. I have however, logged into alts and responded to a post saying Hi its me (& me, & me on alts).
Sometimes people just get weird ideas in their head and simply will not let it go. They will use anything they can to justify what they believe.
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Yeah I agree with you. There is either an “in crowd” kinda thing or popular opinion group that gets left alone while others will get booted quickly. Its not a good look for the company.
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People have admitted to doing this business on this forum. There was a hunter that had their activity open and someone went through all the likes that they were getting and cross checked on the armory and that was exactly what was happening.
Some people don’t get weird ideas in their heads unless they have seen actual evidence. Others since they haven’t seen this evidence make assumptions. Actually, then there are some that just straight out lie after seeing the evidence because it doesn’t fit the scenerio they are trying to present.
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The term I heard not too long ago was “licensed troll.” I can’t say it’s exclusive here. I will admit that it was far less of a problem in the original forums. The people who moderated that forum all had at least 4 year degrees. Now, with Activision cutting corners, including support staff, it’s a minimum wage job. You get what you pay for.
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It’s a small price to pay not to have two dozen Asmongold threads putrefying the front page I say.
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You spoke the name, flags incoming! >.>
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Gonna argue here for a moment because your logic is flawed:
First off: in my opinion, the downvote button did exactly what it was supposed to do. If I disagreed with you, I would downvote, however, as we all know well around here: I will actually tell you why I disagree with you.
Not everyone does this.
I like to think that- most generally- people were downvoting viewpoints they disagreed with. Enough people disagree with a certain viewpoint, sure the original post got “buried”. Never meant people “had it out” for that person.
That’s how that works. Not everyone that browses the forums says something. On the old forums, there was no way to abuse the dislike button. Meaning: on these forums, I can hop on Juju etc and like all of this ones posts.
The permissions were a lot different.
They also had a better report system.
(I might be replying to the wrong person).
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