Is Something Being Done About the False Flaggers of These Forums?

[Alael-madoran (Alael)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

I have noticed that many players on these forums will report any opposing view to their own, and false flag another players opinion to have them silenced on these forums. This is similar to how players are falsely reporting players in game to have them silenced as well. Is there any repercussions to falsely reporting another player?

Blizzard posted this a while back on flagging abuse and how they handle it:

Mass flagging abuse

When a single post or individual receives a lot of reports, it goes to our Moderation team for review while hiding the post once a certain threshold is reached. While the intent here is to hide stuff that the community feels is against the Code of Conduct, you are correct in that some individuals try to weaponize the reporting system. We can and do take action against people who abuse our reporting systems, but I wanted to go into a bit more depth on how we do it and how we hope to improve. Cur…