Fixed that for you.
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Its because the reason comes from a place of hubris or spite. Moral authority, or masked vengeance. Either way, its essentially chat vigilantes running around with a homemade “Azeroth Police Force” with tasers that Blizz handed to them.
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You said it, if a GM gets involved. Until then, don’t try to kill it for everybody and just ignore.
Chuck Norris isn’t the problem, spamming is. Maybe that’s your point, but leave Chuck out of it.
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Harassment, “griefing,” abusive behavior or chat, conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others, deliberate inactivity or disconnecting, and/or any other activity which violates Blizzard’s Code of Conduct or In-Game Policies. This is from the TOS word for word. Its left to interpretation
I find it really hard to understand how you don’t understand that this IS abusing the system. If I say “Well, to me I hate it when people talk about pvp in general chat so I am going to report them” that is no different than what you are saying. It’s abuse. Period.
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You’l rue the day you met me trebek
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Chuck Norris jokes are spam too.
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conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others,
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Is this clear?
/sigh. That’s subjective.
I think you have something personal against Chuck Norris.
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See my example above. Anything can be considered hindering of gamplay. If I only want to see people selling stuff in trade and I hate it when people say “LFM DM PST” and I report that would be technically falling under that ‘rule’. But it is part of the game and me reporting them would be abusing that system knowingly trying to mute them for doing nothing wrong.
The funny part about this is you said ‘Today people are old enough to not do that’, yet you are admitting over and over again you will and you do just the thing you say people wont do.
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Literally none of that includes “joke I don’t like”
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Conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the game experience of others. I am not saying jokes I do not like. I am referencing the spamming of them. So yes, That does include what I am referencing. Also, you should not be using the word literally in that sentence.
The problem is, that isn’t a police force that’s Fascism, > police state > despotism, these wants idea’s lead to nothing short of barbarism. I’m not an educated or even a smart well meaning person, but even i can see this foolishness.
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Those problems are easily fixable, and since the last known cited example was from a previous incarnation of the squelch system, it’s possible they have already been fixed. If they haven’t already, they can make it so accounts owned by the same person can’t report the same person and or punish people who try to. There can be an alert system as well if more than two reports come from people in the same guild.
I think you need to really read this part of the rule here. This would be greifing on purpose. So what you are saying doesn’t even fall under that rule.
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There can be? Well there isn’t. People still to this day are getting squelched over mass reports from the exact scenarios I am talking about.
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If you have evidence of that, I’d like to see it. Like I said, your example was from the old system. If there isn’t a newer case, i assume the issue has been solved.
You can ignore them; they are not DDoS’n your router or calling your house or doing actual things too you.
You’re so delicate and at the same time want the power to distribute justice as you see fit.
Guess what; justice is not yours to wield; that’s why we have GM’s who are not part of the debate that can look at the situation from an unbias point of view and then take action accordingly.
If you dislike something some one is saying ignore them.
If you see some one who’s actually violating the terms of service like promoting or actin on racism; report them and then ignore them.
The GM will take action and it will be correct.
YOU are the exact reason why lynch mobs are a bad idea and why we have real law enforcement to deal with crimes because it just so happens that the guy the mob thinks did it some times turns out to be not the one who actually did the crime.
Worse, in a situation with racism; the racist bigots would lynch those who they dislike; this was mob rule and exactly the same as the auto squelch.
Just to point out how un-just the system actually is, if this system was in place 60 years ago you would get squelched just for being a minority, and then squelched any time you talked about geting dunked on in chat; simply because your skin was the wrong color.
These are the kinds of reasons why you cannot put the power of enforcement into the hands of the mob.
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Filling my chat window with chuck norris jokes so I can not see the rest of the chat does disrupt. Again, continual posting of the same thing repeatedly disrupts. Let me try a third way. Copying and pasting from the internet a bunch of jokes to fill a general chat window disrupts.
You have displayed that your understanding of spam is flawed already.
Sorry, I don’t have faith in your ability to interpret the ToS accurately and without emotional influence.
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