If you actually played back pre cata you would now that people got away with quite a bit in terms of language. Blizzard would just send you mail telling you to shape up or you might get a suspension. If you sat in chat spamming curse words then yes you would get suspended. I cracked some jokes in /s out front of org on a heavily populated area and got suspended. I didn’t use any fowl language, just a crude joke.
If a crude joke is too much for people than they shouldn’t be on the internet.
. I cracked some jokes in /s out front of org on a heavily populated area and got suspended. I didn’t use any fowl language, just a crude joke.
Then Id suggest you exercise some restraint in future. BTW your post is why the new system was brought in.
If a crude joke is too much for people than they shouldn’t be on the internet.
If you cant behave and cant follow the rules laid down, expect to be silenced.
Is the joke one you would tell in a workplace? If the answer is no, then dont tell it ingame.
Thunder
He should be glad in a way…other MMOs dont do squelches…they just boot you out the door at warp nine.
No appeals no discussions, you just get shown the door.
That’s interesting. I didn’t particularly think it was a bug. But, I did think it was just a fact of how the system worked that they may not have wanted. As, total guess here, I assumed the system has to alter permissions on the account and in order for those to be applied your account needs to “reset”(relog).
Oh boy, you should hear about Stealth and Vanish… Those two abilities have had ongoing bugs since the dawn of WoW. haha
yeah. The devs said the system is SUPPOSED to dump you from the chat server and not interfere with the game. If you have ever been disconnected with the voice client, the system hangs a big. It’s all related
Ah. I have not used their voice service, unfortunately. ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
Well, maybe they can figure that out because that can be very intrusive!
It’s weird. I don’t use it either. But since it launches with the game, you really don’t have a choice. It’s happens at random intervals
I know yoi specified the right click report system, but loot trading says “HI”.
They are using two different rulesets for lootv trading. This is due to how easy it would be to abuse loot trading, particularly in 5 man dungeons.
They could easily use two different rulesets for right click report due to how easy it would be to abuse that system in classic and the far more detrimental effect that abuse would have on the victims.
I’m not saying that those who violate the TOS/EULA should not be punished. I fully support punishing those that violate the TOS/EULA. I simply believe that ANY AND ALL punishment (including a squelch) should be administered only by Blizzard and only after a manual review.
That remains to be seen. After all, Blizzard did change the loot trading rule set for Classic due to concerns regarding the potential for abuse of that system.
If they usually “get right on reviewing those squelches”, then they should have no problem “getting right on reviewing flags” if the right click report system simply generated a flag for manual review instead of a squelch, right?
Your method will not be effective in dealing with spammers and goldsellers. That is what the squelch was initially designed for. And I do see a resurgence of that behavior in Classic.
Another poster addressed this with a suggestion that could be included with the suggestion I proposed.
Add another option to the right click report menu for “selling illegal services” and the the auto squelch only to that option. Abuse of that option and the subsequent squelch should be fairly easy to detect.
If Johnny is squelched for “selling illegal services” and Blizzard does not see anything in chat yo indicate that Johnny was advertising for gold selling or other illegal services, then lift the squelch and punish the abusers.
They can detect abuse quite easily now with the current system.
It’s potential for abuse is obvious. This isn’t a doomsday scenario I never called it that.
Why not? Blizzard has a Relevant Games: section for their policies. They can just as easily make a WoW Classic icon and make a modified policy for Classic. I’ve seen you post this doomsday scenario before. It doesn’t hold any water.
That’s fine if the system actually works like that. However the turn around for the silence punishment is mere minutes after a mass report which is indicative of an automated system. Especially when the reported chat message is a completely innocuous message to test the system.
I don’t have a license to swear, but Garrosh does. 
Besides I’m not talking about swearing. You seem to think I’m advocating a lawless system in a public chat room which I am not. What I’m against is the automatic disconnect, which is a fact, and the automatically applied silence.
In addition I’d change how the squelch system currently works and have it only temporarily squelch you from the specifically reported chat channel. It shouldn’t prevent you from using most forms of player communication like it does now.
Which have been confirmed a bug…
It’s not a bug. It’s a feature. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
ah…so I see. Doesn’t fit your agenda.
Where’s the bug report on that then?
Have a look…
Check @WarcraftDevs twitter too.
I would not be too sure of that given the subjective nature of reports. How does Blizzard prove that Billy and his friends were actually abusing the system and not submitting reports in good faith for what they thought was a violation but actually was not a violation?