Since the blues have the chat / report logs I’m just here to double confirm that the reason for my recent week long ban was for looking for more for 25 man Naxx in the LFG channel, and not my friend secretly reporting me when I swore?
Sorry for the confusion, Kiter, but this has nothing to do with any whispers or officer chat you may have had. The system shows you a sample of chat from the report, usually about 5 lines of it from a given period. Just because there are whisper and guild lines there, doesn’t mean that is the reason for the penalty.
As you inferred and from what I can see, the folks on your realm feel you are little overzealous with your LFM messages and spam the LFG channel."
So the text for the reason the ban was handed to me (when I go to appeal) was all just communication between a friend and I with a couple of swears, not once did the text show my looking for more message for Naxx 25, but the LFM is the reason Vrakthris gave me. So I was banned for being overzealous while trying to recruit a PUG 25 man Naxx group on the day before the reset, and not my communications containing swears with a friend?
I can definitely see some reports of inappropriate language, f-bombs, etc, but this is public chat and not reported by only a single person.
We wouldn’t provide details of which players may have reported you, Kiter, sorry. It is only because the source is from multiple users that I am providing any detail at all.
Why would anyone get disciplined for dropping “f-bombs”? You guys have a mature language filter. Shouldn’t it be on the offended party to utilize that feature? If you continue to cater to the “sensitive/woke culture”, you’re not going to have a game to ban people from pretty soon.
That analogy literally makes no sense here. We are talking about words, not small arms fire. If cursing is now a justifiable ban, good luck keep what community Blizz has left, considering a good majority of them are adults.
It is; it’s the idea of you can do something because there’s a safety net, doesn’t mean you’re exptacted to do it. Like trying to hit someone in the head with a baseball bat when they have a baseball helmet on. Just because they have it on, doesn’t mean I can hit any person wearing one.
It may have been listed in the ToS, but up until a couple years ago, it was only ever punishable if it was used in an abusive manner. Just flat out cursing, and being punished for it, is asinine.
Profanity has always been against policy. The Mature language filter isn’t and never has been a tool that allows you to use profanity, either masked or not.
It is there to serves as a temporary shield, to help parents of minors and others who do not wish to see it, to block it.
If that’s the case, then why not make the mature language filter a permanent fixture, instead of allowing people to curse and then punishing them for doing so? It seems very hypocritical of you and your team to allow something, but then slap someone’s hands and tell them they’re grounded for doing so.
It’s not hard to act civil, “inappropriate language” implies more than just a few f-bombs were dropped.
I cuss like a sailor, but there is a time and a place for it. Trade or any other global channel is not the place. Kids play this game guys…
The filter it just so that an occasional word isn’t seen by someone who doesn’t want to see them. It’s not a license to use those words. Filtered words are also reportable. The language filter can make it easier to find chat to report.
People who say that being required to be civilized are “sensitive” or “woke” are the ones who seem to object to others requiring them to act civil. For the record, I reported players in Vanilla and TBC (original) for language. It wasn’t about being “sensitive” or “woke”, it was about the fact that it has always been against the rules.
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I’ve used the filter once. I found having the words filtered more offensive than the words themselves.