I can’t agree automation will give any paying player a 4 day ban.
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When people report a player, a gm will look into it. When many report him, the gm looks into it sooner rather than later.
Banning is not automated.
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What is preventing you from being able to agree?
Oh yeah? How would one know that this is not fabricated nonsense that you are presenting?
Automation means the exact ‘thing’ needs to happen, I can’t believe this exact thing in WOW has happened enough for blizz to automate it.
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You are confusing what happens in retail that results in silencing or squelching with banning. They do not ban for no reason. They do not auto ban if a certain number of players file reports.
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To be clear, I’m not confusing anything. Please point to where you may feel this is the case, and we can deal with your false accusation.
Do you have anything you can point to for verification of these claims?
Sounds not fair, deserves a wow court hearing so he can explain himself. Could be banned cause he got witch hunted.
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You are the one making the claim that banning is automatic on receiving reports. It’s not.
They investigate before banning people. Someone has to do something serious before they are banned. Mass false reporting will not result in a ban, because they always investigate before banning a player.
They have the chat logs. They can see what happened.
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It is difficult to precisely conceptualize your understanding of automation based on this statement.
If you mean that you doubt automation has been developed to apply a ban to someone based on reports, then perhaps that’s a reasonable doubt.
My suspicion is that there are thresholds. I would be somewhat surprised if those thresholds include live human interaction, though I do not claim factual knowledge.
Would you mind quoting me, please?
Do they? How would I know this to be a truthful statement?
I’m starting to believe other’s don’t understand the meaning of automation, (not you), my point is/was I anecdotally doubt blizz has seen this exact situation enough times to put the money/resources into it, to automate it.
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You said bans are automatic.
Bans are the result of intervention by a gm. They want to avoid a situation where an innocent person is maliciously punished based on false reports.
Hey, Orsobovus, listen, I’m really not trying to argue with you, but please just read what I’ve typed, and if I actually typed precisely that, then please quote it, and show me why you feel that that is what I am claiming.
Apparently you don’t know how the right click report option works. To report someone for cheating the player reporting has to provide a reason. Obviously in this case it was a scam. “Automation” can’t read the notes and decide on the punishment. Silencing someone in chat is something that can easily be automated because it’s a less severe punishment than an account suspension. If you would merely Google you can easily find out that Blizzard has suspending people for scamming and that Blizzard reps state they use the chat logs as evidence. However I’m positive your next response is going to be something along the lines of “prove it to me” because you really aren’t here to try and engage in an actual discussion. You’re just here to troll.
Yeah, I wonder how it might work.
I suspect there are some rules in place, but don’t have much to go by, nor a very deep understanding of how they may operate at Blizzard.
I do suspect that there are thresholds for reporting, but whether those thresholds result in bans or not, I’m not sure.
I could see some system that makes a call to automate a temp ban, if the reports were deemed serious enough to require immediate action, but live resources (humans) are not available to be allocated to this problem.
If say, 100 people have reported the same player for cheating, it may make sense to put in a temporary ban of a little longer than it may take for a human to review, thereby preventing the problem from occurring again, prior to being reviewed.
Now, I am not saying that this is the case. I do suspect that there are some thresholds that could trigger this though. Note the use of the word, “suspect.” I claim no knowledge.
They literally never said friend. Why did you bring that into the conversation?
Are you witch hunting?
For things like chat bans etc I could see them doing it but for actual game suspensions, considering someone is paying to play, this would extremely water down the reason to pay to play.
You might be right but in this case, I doubt it. Thx for the healthy discussion, though, regardless.
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Definitely not.
Blizzard has rules and can ban you for what ever they like but what they can’t do is ban you for a situation that never happened regardless of how many people report it.
I’m pretty sure Blizzard has explained that automatic silences do occur but they don’t auto-ban players just from reports. I don’t have evidence to prove that’s the indeed the case and if you think about it it’s near impossible to prove because even if I had examples that wouldn’t cover every possible scenario so wouldn’t actually prove anything.
However it should be the person trying to prove otherwise who provides evidence not the other way around, and for that case one well documented example is enough to prove it (so it would be much easier to prove if this were to be the case).
Not really, it’s not like a player can put others in danger or make something really that bad to warrant instant action, specially after being silenced temporarily (which is said to indeed be automated if enough players report it)
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