I’m not even joking.
If I can get a 2 week suspension in Overwatch for telling my entire team to “{removed},” then I think it should be equally actionable for the jerks in keys who cuss out tanks and healers or other toxic drivel they say to earn them the same punishments.
The hypocrisy between the two games is just unreal.
And no, i dont think it needs to take 200 people reporting the same thing. If people use foul language to others in the game period…they need ot take a break.
I assume you reported that inappropriate communication?
If so, they should be getting some time off from the game. Not that you’re entitled to know anything about that.
In OW, you get a “thank you for reporting for (insert behavior here); we took action based on what you reported and we appreciate you contrinbuting to a safer world…” or whatever silly text they use.
Would be great in wow to get some confirmation that they actually did something about it.
I dont let these types of things ruin my day after 20 years of being a tank but this particular expansion…the amount of toxicity is off the chain and it would go a LONG way of showing that they care about this to root it out.
Wow used to send those little emails for some things (reporting botters, for instance) but not every kind of report. Other than reporting inappropriate advertising or spam, I don’t think they send notes.
I still get these “thank you for reporting, we took action etc.” pop-up messages in-game at the top right of my interface, but they usually come in bulk. Like 20+ at one time, and some time after the actual report. It’s possible they were just for the spammers I report, but since it doesn’t say what it was about, I don’t know for sure.
It is absolutely worth it to report any bad behavior because the penalties stack and I’m sure the more players report that one person, the more likely that person is to be actioned for something eventually. I definitely agree people need to take a break if they take out their frustration on their fellow players.
I get too many notifications when I report people so I decided to stop doing that.
Yea, and getting rid of that is boring.
I’m not a fan of boycotting specific words. I would have no problem with lowering the tolerance threshold for hostile behavior, because that’s universally negative and I hate it myself when people argue when I just want to run some content.
But the intent of cursing at someone, and chewing them out in a PG manner, are the same. I don’t see the need for trying to censor words when it’s an action we really have a problem with.
I tend to go the other way and prefer a world where we can all say whatever we want to each other without fear of bans.
Let the tattletales play with each other and let the adults play with each other. Done.
Well, out here in the real world, we’re never going to have official “polite servers” and “potty-mouth servers”, so you’ll have to live with the need to moderate your own communications.
nah, bad take. nobody wants to hear you saying slurs because they missed a kick or whatever.
Nah, kid take to assume it will be slurs in my lexicon.
Report them. It’s 100% actionable.
that’s always what it is when people start screaming about free speech 
I’m sure there isn’t more nuance to this whatsoever.
Agreed, and whatever talentless dumb mistake was made to trigger this outburst should also be punished because wasting everybody’s time with poor play is WAY WORSE than any words ever said in the history of humanity.
You can, and should, report people for cussing in game. CS forums always get a couple threads a week from folks who get silenced/banned “despite not cheating” and then a blue responds stating its for cussing.
Report away, friend!
Who really cares about old men using bad words? On the totem pole of disruptive behavior, it’s under the ground. It’s actually far less effort to just spend 2 clicks and hit ignore, but people want to feel vindicated because they’ve cultivated such a fragile ego that the same words they use in regular conversation are deemed hurtful when directed at them. Most of these people have the mature language filter turned off too like they’re looking to be “victimized.”
Per Blues in the CS forums, the mature language filter is not an escape hatch to use profanity. It’s a setting to ensure players don’t see it at all, but profanity is still against the ToS for a game rated T.
And let’s not pretend players are being offended at an f bomb used as an adjective. They’re reporting people for using that profanity directed towards them directly usually in some sort of personal attack about their skill.
And I’ll report those players every single time. Those people need to grow up. Learn to communicate without personal attacks.
Whether or not you choose to report people is up to you. The language filter has never been permission to violate the agreements that you made however. If you cannot use appropriate language, the onus is on you to disable chat or stick to personal channels with like-minded individuals.
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