All he did was prove that the squelch system exists.
And Blizzard has never denied that it has existed. That thread I linked literally has people saying that squelches are automated. Blizzard has come out and said that squelches are automated.
Silences are not automated. Functionally there’s no difference, but even in the video where Asmongold ‘proved’ there was an automated system, the message he got specifically said ‘Your chat and mail privileges have been suspended pending GM review’ which is the message you get when your account is squelched.
This has been confirmed, multiple times, going back years. It’s not news, it’s not a scandal, most people are mature enough to understand that.
You seem to be misunderstanding. People were in AV defending or or ran off for a moment to get their quest and suddenly found themselves kicked from game with a month long ban.
They said nothing of the sort. They simply said they will go back and review them AFTER they were already automatically banned.
Damage control? It’s literally the opposite effect. People use this system to punish people they don’t like, sometimes GM’s don’t really look into it, there’s another streamer who received an automated message after making a ticket about an appeal. You think it’s cool for people to not play the game for days because of some trolls who report you? I don’t know why you defend this system. Because it probably never happened to you, that’s why.
No, I am not. Those bans were applied via manual review. This has been confirmed even by Asmongold himself, he even has a video saying as much on his channel if you care to take a look at it.
Again, even Asmongold, who first pushed the narrative that they were automated suspensions, has stated that Blizzard reached out to him and made it clear that the suspensions were applied via manual review.
You are wrong.
It’s okay to be wrong, but please recognize that you are, because even the person who tried to expose this has since confirmed that he was wrong.
You being a good lil healer is your personal experience, you’re basing your personal experience and think that everyone who was silenced broke tos, that’s the problem you say things because you don’t understand and you don’t care, you just TRUST the system.
It is not true at all. It is evidenced by those who were banned for a month immediately without any review. Because the analytics banned them. That is automated.
If you wish to ignore how things work now, then so be it. I will not try to explain to those who will defend such things any longer. Good day.
I am not speaking of chat silence. Perhaps understand the conversation. Good day to you. I will not indulge your condescension and constant defense of Blizzard.