Appreciate any direction/help!
Reporting for reporting?
I don’t believe that’s worked in the history of never ever.
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Well, report abuse is a thing. Agree that’s it’s a bit of an odd thing to bring up.
This is something Blizzard handles internally. As players, we really have no idea if someone is abusing the reporting feature.
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Generally, I don’t think you need to. If someone is repeatedly reporting someone else “frivolously”, the GM team will politely tell them to knock it off.
Abuse of the reporting system, or something like that.
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I’ll leave it at that for now then. Thanks!
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As Bloomsday said, that is something Blizzard handles internally. People are free to report someone if they feel that person is breaking the game code of conduct or forum code of conduct.
Nothing comes of it unless Blizzard agrees that the rules were violated. The exception is a SQUELCH which can be applied automatically if enough unique reports from different accounts come in during a short enough time. That has been in game for 10-15 years now mostly to deal with gold spammers/advertising. It CAN be abused, but that is rare and people doing it get vacations. They won’t tell you anything personally about it though.
Actual account actions are applied by a GM, and forum moderation is done by Blizz staff (usually our blues here).
If you feel you were penalized in error you would want to appeal.
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Appreciated. I have {this person} on ignore. They’re a well known forum troll, so I didn’t see their post.
Just trying to stay ahead of something atm. Thanks for the help.
Having them on Ignore is the right step. However, the next step is to not try to provoke them into an argument or response by accusing or name-calling. That, in and of itself, is also trolling.
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This isn’t the person I was referring to. As far as provoking them, they don’t seem to mind harassing players constantly, so not sure what to say. Given there are posts up specifically addressing that person, it’s not exactly a mystery, but I understand your take.
This thread was in response to someone else who is hopping on different characters to report my posts. I’d assume the mods have visibility into where players are posting from, but I just want to be a little proactive so my account doesn’t get actioned on as it has been in the past for flagrant reports.
Your account would never have been actioned just from user reports. Moderators look at the reported posts and determine whether or not the post breaks any rules.
The best a user can do is hide the post, but it is still visible to other users if they click.
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I assure you that the moderators can tell if someone is sock-puppet flagging, and will suspend their forum activities and abilities when they’re caught.
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Multi-flagging the same post with different characters is something that moderation takes seriously and will certainly result in forum account action. They definitely take abuse of the report system in that manner seriously (and punish it quickly from what I’ve heard from a certain user).
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This is correct.
Not directed at you, Pharazon, but just a caution that we, as players, do not know who has reported/flagged us. We can suspect that someone is sockpuppet-ing, and those suspicions may turn out to be correct, but we don’t know for sure.
Only Blizzard has that information, and they will take action when they find it.
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For sure. In this instance they were responding to themselves on their alts in the same thread. A bit silly to say the least. Were it any other situation, I likely would have ignored it, but unfortunately this player has made it their mission to bother me and they have said some pretty awful things. I’m usually fine with just putting these players on ignore, but unfortunately what they accused me of was highly inappropriate.
Appreciate the responses and it looks like the thread was removed. Thank you!
Just for a little clarification, if we’re talking about the same thread, it was removed because it was advertising someone’s youtube video… which we don’t really allow.
Posting as part of a discussion, etc… generally okay… the “Look at this (link to streamer reaction or news video)” - especially as the start of the thread, not usually.
I confirmed that there were other posts that were reported in that thread and part of the process is to review all reported posts, even if the thread/post is deleted. I can’t really provide specifics on any actions that may or may not have been taken as a result though.
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