That’s rather interesting, Orlyia. A few years ago I had gotten to the point where an in-game/in-forum harasser had started targeting my posts with a nearly-identical doppleganger in terms of race, face and name and spamming goosh-goosh links and, pardon me I’m trying to figure out a way to explain this without violating ToU, basically I logged in one day to find both all of his and my own posts deleted.
Years of lore debates, digging and roleplay gone overnight without warning.
I had spent weeks trying to get a response from behind the automated wall and, failing that, tried calling up. All the way from Australia. On international call-rates.
After being put on hold multiple times despite alerting the representative to this being hideously costly to me, the response I was given was that because the forums were moderated by a ‘separate entity’ nothing could be done about the harassment.
Has Blizzard always moderated their own forums or is this a new thing? Or was I just given the CShuffle so I would go away?
I am kind of concerned I’d just get banned anyways, but I am going to risk it and ask if Blizz has always provided their own CS staff or if it is a new thing.
I want to live, but I have to know.
I’ve taken the loss of all that work as a lesson and back up the posts I think are worth it these days, but I am quite interested to know if I just got the CShuffle or if there was a change in how things were done.
Well this particular character has been doing little more than drinking, smoking, flirting, and openly engaging in the use of other mind altering substances over the course of hundreds of hours of gameplay time - nearly a year of actual time. Even drop the occasional swear…
Anduin as an adult: [narrating] Only I didn’t say “Fudge.” I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word!
Genn: [stunned] What did you say?
Anduin: Uh, um…
Genn: That’s… what I thought you said. Get in the carriage… Go on.
Anduin as an adult: [narrating] It was all over - I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Hmmph. Mere child’s play compared to what surely awaited me.
Did Cannibal’s thread already get taken down or is that a link to the old one? Getting a 404 and I’m kinda bummed if I didn’t make it in time to read it.
Go on a long tangent about the the whole thing.
Open up and share my thoughts on Blizzard’s handling of certain situations.
Throw all my grievances out there.
But it’s honestly not worth it,
And I can’t trust Blizzard will be respectful of my experience.
Now, even talking vaguely like this, I feel fearful.
No way that’s a good atmosphere, but that’s how it is.
Ending the situation in silence is probably for the best, either way.
Don’t piss off Blizzard is my only word of advice.