No you can’t decide what people type but ya can guide it. Public chat channels have always had guidelines Trade chat is for trading. General is for chatting.
Players ignore this and do what they want cause /reasons.
Blizz seems to think otherwise. You’d think these false flag cases woukd be taken to CS as well but nah GD and classic discussion getting riled up will get better results. Lol
The fact it’s written in the CoC and people are still trying to challenge it is really laughable.
D)they can also just report you cause you’re blocking their Thunderfury spam with your latest hot topic debate. Lol
You should read the CoC you agreed to. Js. It’s been in there for a long time. Blizz has been actioning against it for a long time. At this point ya might as well except it and do all of your swearing in discord like i do. Lol
Maybe, but what if for some reason you end up in a discussion and have to pull out facts like that? Say the ones about men being more likely to commit suicide. Do you want to get reported because some people didn’t like facts?
Yes I was kinda shocked to see player reports help determine what is acceptable behavior. Blizz is allowing players to decide.
Yes on one hand that does suck because while they also acknowledged it could lead to actions for abusing the report system. We don’t have one person coming forward saying I’ve been punished for abusing the system. Which is in itself a violation so it kinda is a one hand washes the other situation. I can see that.
What we need is word from blizz but expect next communication to gloss right over this with some other distracting announcement:Beta!
Then they can abuse the crap out if it on the test realm to prove it’s being abused. Lol
Lol. Ganking has never been bannable. Let em flag for it. Maybe blizz is allowing people to flag whatever so they can establish patterns?
They do like to drop that ban hammer in waves to maximize impact. They are the king min/maxers.
They are twinked out raid bosses with a short CD bubble. Lol
I watched a few videos yesterday of guilds using the report feature to temp ban a well known healer in a rated BG, and one where a guild (as a joke) reported one of their members.
Classic WOW is fundamentally different than BfA, in that communication is required for so much in the game that you run the risk of that mechanic being exploited if it’s fully automated.
People that intentionally say inflammatory things do so for a response. Putting them on ignore denies their ability to affect you, while not creating a system that is exploitable.
The right thing to do is to leverage the /ignore and /report feature. Have GMs look into situations where a single person gets ‘x’ number reports and use common sense to determine if this is an example of people abusing the /report system or if the person legitimately deserves some greater punishment.
If you really can’t afford the customer service to weed these things out, then just empower people to avoid toxic speech by using /ignore.
while this is true, the problem is people these days are so easily upset that i could say something innocuous and it gets twisted.
i mean, look at the whole covington kid situation as to how people can put a spin on anything.
do you really want players deciding whats out of line?
i would much rather have blizzard actually laying down guidelines then leaving it up to others feelings.
But players aren’t the ones that should be determining if a violation has occurred and punishing people. The game survived for years with players only being able to alert Blizzard to something they thought was a violation and then Blizzard deciding the merits of the case and what, if any, action needed to be taken. There is absolutely no reason to switch from that to player mob rules determining what should be punished.
He’s making a really important point here. ActivisionBlizzard isn’t going to be punishing false reports outside of the extremes because as far as ActivisionBlizzard knows you really were offended. If they started punishing those who hand out reports they would be punishing the victim. People who think they are legitimately right would get punished. Maybe that’s a good thing but ActivisionBlizzard isn’t going to risk losing those paying customers.
Yet they’re apparently perfectly happy to lose customers who happen to be on the other side of the fence being punished for non-actionable (according to the ToS/CoC) behavior just because some mob decides they don’t like them…
Yes. They apparently are. And the pro right-click squelchers will defend that. Obviously if you’re reported you did something wrong is what they say. Better to lose 1 toxic player than 5 regular ones is what they say.
How ironic it is when the 5 regular ones are the toxic players and you are the one getting auto squelched.
Behavior that intentionally detracts from others’ enjoyment (such as griefing, throwing, feeding, etc.) is unacceptable. We expect our players to treat each other with respect and promote an enjoyable environment. Acceptable behavior is determined by player reports and Blizzard’s decision, and violating these guidelines will result in account and gameplay restrictions.
While we encourage you to report players that are behaving in a disrespectful manner, falsely reporting another player with the sole intent of restricting their gameplay is also unacceptable and will result in penalties to your account.
If you’re unsure if your actions violate this code of conduct, reconsider them. We reserve the right to restrict offending accounts as much as necessary to keep Blizzard games a fun experience for all players.
It has now survived years with it as well. Across multiple games too.
But that’s the exact principles the black list works off of. Lol
There’s no way you’re gonna tell me that the harassment of the dreaded black list for the rest of your play time with that avatar is less of a headache than a temporary squelch.
Once you are tried in the court of public opinion you are done. Facts be damned. Yea I’ll take my squelch’s at least then a 3rd party will review it instead of the server’s mob mentality and harassing players at every turn cause Billy’s guild black listed you over some false BS. Lol
Both systems have the same issue. One just doesn’t let you talk.
Wish you guys the best in this cause I won’t have this issue in classic. Same as I haven’t had it on live. For years!
Only reason it’s an issue on the classic forums is to silence differing opinions and shut down discussions. Oh and to prove its abused. Huh huh huh.
Flag away. I have a template made for the ticket. Lol