Well now im curious about it says about me lol
Well, yesterday the addon had about 200 downloads when it got spammed on the forums.
I am purposely not mentioning its name so that I don’t help spread its usage.
You’re probably safe for now. Unless you were part of the group that was telling the poster that their addon was a horrible idea…we are probably all marked
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Only the weak minded would use a system like that. It’s a deceptive addon, it promises what sounds on its face to idiots a reasonable proposition :Safeguard your group from potentially bad people, however dig a little deeper and more concerning flaws than a toxic person arise.
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You’re not in the notes it currently has, but there’s only 16 player notes in there right now.
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There isn’t anything fundamentally bad about that. Several careers will see you effectively blackiisted from if you commit certain transgressions and I 100% approve of that. I don’t want someone who REALLY likes kids, for example, to EVER babysit for me or be anywhere near me or my nieces/nephews or even my cousins and their kids (or any kid).
Yes there is a problem in our society with criminals always being marked and “forever” paying for crimes…but actions have consequences and, to me, there are some crimes that are inherently unforgiveable. Not to say being a bad player is on that level, but if the addon tracks dates as well one can use that info to make a judgement call.
I want addons like Raider IO to track people who abandon keys and I am curious of this addon because “I” want to have the information at my disposal and then “I” decide if the person signing up should be welcome. As someone whose career is in big data, I fully recognize the importance of data itself and can very much appreciate any information at my disposal.
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Don’t expect anything but canned responses from customer support these days.
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This is a game not real life and the worst you’re gonna find here is someone being racist and toxic. It’s player moderated which makes the entire addon worhtless, wheres the oversight?
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Player made addons should never police other players - there is too much risk involved for abuse and manipulation. If you cannot see that I’m sorry. I do not want to be policed by a few players; this is not an authoritarian dictatorship and no one but blizzard should have the ability to “blacklist” any player for any reason.
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I really dont care about dungeon finder or LFR people. They are probably AI bots anyway at this point.
I just move on and forget they existed tbh. Every now and then i get a good social group but man is it rare.
I’ll take… “Another reason the WoW Community is toxic” Alex for $500…
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There is no policing going on. The existence of the addon isn’t stopping anyone from using features of the game like queuing up for a dungeon or battleground just like sites like Yelp don’t actually put up caution tape around a “bad” restaurant IRL…it’s information which people interested enough can seek out and use while those who don’t care don’t have to.
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I think I would be more accepting of add-ons like this if the information was objective and allowed players to defend themselves.
This addon allows subjective reports that are not viewable by the players they are against (unless they have the addon). And who knows how the appeals process actually works since the developer gets to decide.
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What’s the add on called?
good lord. this is another one.
the lengths people will go to to smear others without recourse is insane.
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It is policing - you’re literally subjectively punishing players based on perceived wrongs and slapping marks on them for it. The problem is what one player finds wrong another may not.
Imagine this - you rile someone up, and YOU are the aggressor, but, you only clip the part of the conversation where the other person leaves and/or responds to your aggression. Now YOU put a negative mark on THEM. People WILL abuse this. This WILL be used for harassment against people you simply run across that you just don’t like. It needs to be addressed and broken by Blizzard. Player-created-social-policing is extremely toxic.
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WoW is already the most toxic mmorpg out there right now we can stop one upping our self’s with new ways to be toxic we got the gold already.
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Sure that would be dandy, but I wager that will never happen.
I imagine it will be overall very negative because people neutral to someone’s performance isn’t going to go out of their way to “rank” someone and IRL data shows us too that less people will go out of their way to tell managers of superior service.
While not 100% accurate, I definitely would like to have a heads up if some 1500+ IO person attracts a ton of comments about being a rabid donkeyhat before I invite them. I’d MUCH rather take someone “lower” who has no history than some tryhard elite whose PO’d enough people to the point they wrote bad comments. No guarantee, of course, the “lower” person also isn’t a toxic donkeyhat but I’m willing to take my chances in that situation.
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Wait, are people getting up in arms about an add-on that nobody uses? Also haven’t RP add-ons basically done this for years?
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I’m not surprised an add-on like that would be used with ill intent, to be honest.
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The add-on is less than 24 hours old and already has a couple of hundred downloads. Plus, the developer is actively advertising it…
No reason not to try to stop it before it does become a huge issue.
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