I usually don’t do this because I tend to stick to someone’s word in the thread they post, but I opted to look at your post history.
To say you are ‘a bit argumentative’ is a vast understatement. The ‘hide my name’ thread comes to mind recently. Most of your posts are going in guns fully blazing and mowing down folks under the guise of harassment.
Not to armchair mental health specialist here but if 90%+ of your posts are going after other folks, maybe it’s time to take a step back and take a bit of a break from online interactions.
Now as for your topic at hand, just because accounts are linked does not give GMs nor Blizzard the right to manage their account. Twitter/X already has support staff and a way to report content. You’re also able to block those you’d like to not hear from again. You already have the tools you need for the very thing you’re asking.
That’s too many sweet drinks! Do I have to mix all three of them?
I normally don’t chime in on these kind of topics, but this rediculus. First off welcome to an MMORPG, where anything can happen. Now blizz has taken it upon themselves to make it a PG community and put rules in place to enforce that. However they rely on us to report toxic behaviour. Now quite frankly I don’t care about a persons gender choice, but I don’t want to see that while I’m playing. Blizz has even intentionally not put that in the game with its NPC’s because it is not needed to advance the story. Please keep it out of game and talk about it in the appropriate places, an MMO or its forums is not the place.
You got to understand it from Blizzard’s point of view though, well, moderation. There isn’t just the World of Warcraft forums, if I recall correctly, I could also be entirely wrong on this one, someone may want to chime in on this part, but the moderation also has to deal with every other forums too that are owned by Blizzard. They are humans after all, and can’t be everywhere at once or on 24 hours a day monitoring certain people’s post. Plus, the moderation does have policies to follow too.
They trust the players to do the right thing and report any post that could be in the wrong, and yes, it does only take 1 report for moderation to review. However, keep in mind, if people engage back to the trolling, it can sometimes make it harder for moderation.
To a point, the forum we are posting on right now is blizz owned. However they are not obligated to moderate it, they choose to. It helps maintain the PG community they are aiming for. The mods still need our reports though, there simply is no way they can read every post on every thread to do it all themselves.
Now on Twitter or like pro boards blizz can’t do anything about it.
Discussion of transgender people and issues isn’t automatically R-rated, just like discussion of cisgender people and issues isn’t automatically PG-rated. And transphobia is against Blizzard’s rules.
I’m sure there are plenty of people that don’t want to see evidence of nationalities/ethnic identities/religions/etc that they disapprove of while playing, but Blizzard doesn’t cater to them either.
This is not accurate, just FYI. They have included a transgender NPC in Shadowlands (Pelagos), and Dracthyr options are “Body 1” and “Body 2”. These were promoted as more-inclusive options.
If and when that happens, the relevant posts can be reported and the mods will take care of it. Including, for instance, when people deliberately make such threads toxic in order to shut down discussion of issues they’re uncomfortable with.
Regardless of the genre, a lot of companies don’t want to drive away players by catering to bigotry. If nothing else, it’s bad for business. Hence, rules against people bringing their racism/homophobia/transphobia/etc into the game.
This is not under Blizzard’s control. There is also no rules about behavior on other platforms in relation to a WoW or Battlenet account. The rules are for within Blizzard’s games and forums, and nowhere else.
Blizzard does not share details of other people’s accounts, nor should they. It’s none of your business.
People do not get actioned for mentioning transphobia. They get actioned for inappropriate posts/chat, or trolling, or causing arguments. Or any other violations of the rules.
No, it actually can’t. Blizzard has no control on other platforms. If you think someone is acting inappropriately on other platforms, you can report them respectfully to the moderation of those platforms. (Example, Twitter would have an option where you can report the post.)
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Yes, when it happens in the game or on any of their platforms.
Except, Blizzard can’t do that. If something happens outside of a platform that is not owned by Blizzard, they can’t take action on their platforms towards the post that takes place outside of their platforms.
They do when it comes to even streamers, so clearly they can. It’s very easy to see it and connect it to their WoW account and action their WoW.
You called multiple people that, then continued after being told to stop with clear intentional misgendering, only then was anyone mentioning it. You were the first to flip out over it and go full insult mode; and now you’re over on twitter calling people slurs over their forum posts.
Amusing, but misgendering, calling people ‘trolls’, and everything else apparently isn’t.
Reporting things only works if the forum staff both look into, and take care of problems. Which at this point they do not a lot of the time.
This trainwreck thread really needs to be closed. Any actual questions have been answered and now it’s just litigating the same disruptive and off-topic arguments it started out being about.