I recently finished the shadowmourne quest line and if you know it comes with a lot of items that sell well on the AH. To put it out there I advertised selling it in trade chat on my server (Which no one actually uses for trade). I did this for maybe a hour for 3 days and today I login and get a “Communication Warning”. I cant tell if I got it because enough players reported me or if im not supposed to use trade chat to sell items.
For some extra info I used the macro about once every 2-3 mins when I would tab back to WoW.
Trade chat is absolutely for selling items, but people nowadays get triggered by seeing the same ad pop up that often. My suggestion is once every 10 minutes or so. Or just a couple few times a day spaced apart.
God forbid you use trade chat for its intended purpose and interrupt the trashy political conversations of others in there, I know.
Most of us just slap it on the AH now, because dealing with the cesspool that is Trade chat isn’t worth it.
Communication warnings are for player reports and carry no actual punishment. A moderator has to manually review the report before any actual punishment happens.
Squelches are a punishment and they do affect your gameplay and they are automatically triggered when enough people report you within a given time frame. They graduate to silences when a GM reviews it and decides you deserve a more severe punishment. Or a suspension.
In the OPs case, they are unlikely to get silenced. But the squelch may remain.
You should be totally fine. That’s what trade chat is for. This isn’t about trade chat, but on my server (WRA) we have a guy that RPs an auctioneer every night in /say and people gather around and bid in /say. It’s the coolest thing!
I would question it,if you traded an item to someone < i mean alot,and this person reports you ,yes it is. My sis did trade away ore (not sale) and was warned my blizzard ,so yes it can get you in alot of trouble. Third warning and you’re banned. Be careful.
That doesn’t make any sense. I’ve traded tons of mats and items to friends without any gold in return and never once been warned or in trouble. There is no law that says you can’t give people a bunch of stuff.
this has never been further from the truth and has been debunked, if you are reported enough times your account will be automatically muted and an offense will be marked against you unless otherwise removed by a blizzard game master.
