If it gets any better there will need to be two of me just to be able to enjoy it all.
If you get psychic damage by people disagreeing with you and stating obvious facts, thatâs more a you-problem, I guess.
And I donât think moderation has ever been automated. There are no automated bans when someone gets mass reported in the forums. Otherwise it would be pretty easy to silence people here, which is not happening.
It always takes two people to derail something, not just one.
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My original post was flagged for removal 3 times, and 3 times the moderators had to come in and decide whether it should have been taken down. They chose to leave it up.
Thatâs all I have to say about forum policy abuse.
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They will remove it eventually.
Arriving at a conclusion that has been demonstrated to be incorrect three times over.
That there is some logic.
Iâm just here to discuss whatever topic is being discussed.
I donât care about disagreements and âobvious factsâ if the people here to talk about those things arenât here to discuss the game itself. And would you look at that- they arenât.
Iâm not here for the forum PvP, believe it or not. Those people, are. We are not the same.
Thatâs why I just ignore those people, Iâd rather not stay on the carousel of silliness.
All I care about, is the game itself.
Hence an actual lvl 70 character with achievements and not a hidden profile, etc.
I want to show people I actually exist, and perhaps even play with 'em.
Didnât and wouldnât report your post in this situation.
So this says nothing about the forum policy to me.
People didnât like it so they reported it, it wasnât taken down, which is likely the same situation that people who think criticism is abusive face often.
Because nothing about either of the things they are reflexively reporting is actually breaking the ToS.
The forum flag bombers are real, say something or be someone they donât like and theyâll make sure youâre flagged.
Iâve said it before, and iâll say it again⌠removing the dislike button was a mistake, they should have just removed the bury functionality that was tied to it.
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Wait wait wait. Weâre in a thread about banning âabusive criticism,â acknowledging false reports, and not seeing the irony here?
With the crowd that now occupies this place theyâd just get downvoted AND reported anyhow. It would be double the feeling of power rather than a distraction from the report option.
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I donât know, i think a lot of the false reporting that goes on is just because people (wrongly) are using it as an alternative dislike button, give back the dislike button and the mass reporting will die down.
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Would be worth a shot but Iâd still place a friendly bet against you on that. 
Thatâs also something that turn into a brigade problem though. Double edged sword.
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Hard to say.
Reporting something because you donât like it is narrow-minded and petty, and these are personality traits. It indicates a lack of understanding that one is abusing the tools because they donât have the sense to understand why they were put in place.
Giving someone an additional tool for them to quickly indicate their dislike for something, to me, just seems like theyâre gonna use two tools instead of one
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You and I understand that and try to respect that though. Not something I expect from the masses.
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Still waiting on that explanation of the first amendment.
See, i donât see it as an additional tool, itâs restoring full functionality.
Blizzard saying that the dislike button was being âabusedâ is one of the most ridiculous things i have seen here on the forums, you canât abuse a dislike button, whether we like or dislike something is purely subjective. I personally just think that they hated seeing their white knights getting hammered with dislikes whenever they defended Blizzard on whatever the hot topic was at the time (i think the attempted removal of flight?).
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Google is your friend, Iâm not. Iâm not here to teach you what your amendments are and how freedom of speech doesnât pertain to this forum.
To the degree that the owners decide, it does, and they have always and continue to allow criticism of the game on this private platform. Whether that criticism be about art, music, gameplay, systems, or otherwise. Whether it be poorly worded, harsh, or âconstructiveâ. 
So long as relevant rules are not broken, such as language, it remains within the ToS/CoC.
âBan and silence anyone who disagrees with meâ.
So 2024, glad I never moved to the US lol
I think the issue, fundamentally, is that people will focus less on the words being spoken and more on whoâs saying them.
Personally, I can compartmentalize. Iâve disagreed with Myz more than once in this particular thread, but thatâs just because of the words that have been spoken in this thread. We havenât seen eye to eye in previous convos in this thread, and thatâs perfectly fine.
If we hop into another one, they and I might completely agree with each other, and it wonât bother me one bit that weâve had disagreements in this thread.
A lot of people, however, hold grudges and will just downvote because a name appears on their screen, zero questions asked.
I guess you could argue thatâs not âabuseâ, but in my opinion, the pure intention for downvoting is âthis particular comment youâve made is worthy of a downvoteâ, not âI donât like you so downvoteâ.
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