Wheres the people that say you can’t get auto banned for mass reports. I 'll let you know. Kids are spamming mass report because i got accused of griefing
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They can report you all they want.
Nothing happens except the automated, temporary squelch.
Assuming you’re innocent, of course. If you’re guilty, then yeah, of course you’ll get actioned, as you should be.
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Did you do it right?
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I go north pull marshals when they afk for 10 mins so they call it griefing
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And? Nothing happens from their reports. They can call it griefing all they want.
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You have to have a completely clean bnet account.
Like make an account and do not ever speak in game, they’ll retroactively ban you for anything you may have done in the past.
Reminder OP is using an alt for a reason.
And this isn’t their first topic.
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This is also not true. Blizzard does not go through your character’s entire chat history looking for things. They only look at the chat around a reported message.
But reports can take days or even weeks to get through.
I really wish people would read through some of the CS forum and educate themselves before saying things which are so easily disproved in said forum.
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how do people know they are getting mass reported?
do they magically get a secret message telling them “you have been mass reported?”
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This could be a thing. there can be a fine line between gaming kiting elites…and troll pulling elites to mess crap up.
the “loved” get aggro, pull out the door, to reset elite troll comes to mind.
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Someone probably said “everyone report that guy”.
Another way to tell is you get a squelch and an email.
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So this is where the conspiracy guys from 4chan ended up.
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For someone who acts like they know everything about how Blizzard hands down bans, you’ve gotten a lot wrong. Pay close attention to the last two sentences:
Chat penalties can result in account closure, not just a squelch, based on history:
Those penalties are automatic and based on report history, which is what happened to Payo.
You’re also fond of telling people to go to the CS forums because everyone who claims they’ve been wrongfully banned were shown the ban was justified. So I did. And I found a LOT of examples of this:
BTW, my guildie’s ban was overturned, but he missed out on a week of ranking. You really should stop speaking for Blizzard.
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Leynia didn’t imply otherwise.
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What you’re glossing over is that chat penalties are automated. It’s been tested, it’s been proven. This is exactly what happened to Payo. He got mass reported and squelched. Got it overturned. Got mass reported and squelched again. Got it overturned. Got mass reported and suspended. Got it overturned. Got mass reported and banned. Got it overturned.
As was explained to him, they can’t “white flag” his account. The system looks at how many infractions you have, not if some or all of these penalties were overturned.
We’ve had different penalty systems over the years, which included periods where old violations would no longer be considered. Once we moved to the silence system, we no longer were using decaying penalties, so any penalty from that point on would be part of your account’s history. I believe the silence system went in around Legion, so the history would go from that point.
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The squelch is the same penalty every time it is applied. The further penalties are determined by a GM when looking at the reports that triggered the squelch.
Players can’t ban other players.
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It’s not, it has not, and it’s not
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It is not the same penalty.
That is generally how our social penalties work. The first violation will usually earn a week silence, which you earned back in March of 2023. After a warning the next penalty is usually a week suspension. Then it tends to double from there until eventually the account may be closed.
Following the Legion pre-expansion, any player who is reported multiple times under the Spam or Abusive Chat categories will, after investigation, receive an account-wide silence penalty.
This, of course, is untrue. The penalty is automatic and instant. Chat penalties do NOT happen “after investigation.”
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