I never said that or implied it. Your only option is to be a drone. That’s literally how the game is designed anyways, the community reflects that almost 100% accurately.
It’s really weird how people always default to “you just want to be a jerk” when usually the person accusing such is likely far worse than just a jerk.
I disagree.
Its plenty easy to have non “drone” conversations.
The social contract is just saying “dont be a jerk”. So if the social contract is something one feels turns them into a drone.
Then yeah. I stand by what I said.
Anything you say can be misunderstood by people who don’t actually need to be listened to anyway, yet for some reason they need validation from random people on the internet at all.
I mean…ok?
I could literally say “I like the color purple” and I would get mass false reported by people. I can go test this out right now and end up with a false ban. Because having an opinion means you’re always wrong and always a jerk, but somehow the people falsely reporting aren’t jerks.
Lol no you wouldn’t
No it wouldn’t.
And what is a validated mentally problematic person?
It just restated the rules that have ALWAYS been in place. 
I loved those
but modern times dont allow fun
I remember when I said the f word and everyone insta reported me lol gotta keep our social credits folks
im ready and raring to throw a fit.
The social contract is a statement so that you agree to behave well in a group setting. And most people click and move on.
But I do feel that the game has been cleaned up a lot because of the Silence mechanics and how a realm can decide, the players, how much that they will tolerate or allow.
I have often wondered if the behavior is different in different regions, maybe in the Northwest people are more permissive of language in the /general chat and maybe in the Soutwest they are more uptight or discerning.
Trade chat is now clogged with gear crafting and recrafting on any busy server. It scrolls by so fast you couldn’t even stop one to check it out.
It’s Terms of Use with a different title. I thought it was weird they changed it to “Social Contract” instead of “Updated Terms of Use”, since “Social Contract” was sure to offend readers of a certain ilk.
Really? On Reddit, they told me crafting was dead on every server and I shouldn’t bother.
Yeah, I think the “social contract” thing is a joke anyway. It’s mostly just political. There should have already been some straightforward anti harassment rules and that’s it.
All I know is before a key is put in and I ask which route the group wants, then at the end for better or worse say my trademark, “ty team”, I can still get a behavioural warning from blizz.
So there is no value in even mildly socializing in modern wow.
Considering I play on Alliance side Moon Guard semi regularly, where chat is still alive and well and hasn’t changed, I don’t think that’s the case.
We’re living in a world where anyone can claim they’re offended by anything at any time.
I’ll just continue to chat with people I know.
I think this is the route most people go.
It isn’t just a WoW thing either.
People are quick to report in other games and penalties are often automatically applied so in other online games I play many people are just turning chat off altogether.
I don’t think it’s anything to do with the social contract… people just aren’t required to be social anymore and it’s too easy to get suspended/banned for saying much of anything.
Plus discord has become the way of communicating now, outside of RP realms.
The social contract is literally just a reminder of the EULA. And since I’m better at pedantry than you…
There was never a ToS (Terms of Service), because the game isn’t a service. There was a Terms of Use, though. It has long since been rolled into the EULA, since it applies to all Blizzard IPs and properties.