Let's not forget right-click report

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Internet was still a new thing, people weren’t so edgy on the web back then, so it didn’t get tested on retail vanilla. I’m not sure, if GM’s would have had the time back then to be muting everyone saying something nasty. People had the option to leave channels where discussions happened that didn’t interest or aroused negative emotions in them. You could also put players on ignore list.

Back then there wasn’t such a strong consensus to be censoring all nasty talk either, maybe it’s just worse nowadays as people wish cancer and death upon their opponents on games such as rocket league.

Even so I rather like to see what people have to say and try to understand them than take the route of backbench moderating and giving players the power to globally squelch other players. Right click ignore works better for fast cure in my opinion.

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Even so I rather like to see what people have to say and try to understand them than take the route of backbench moderating and giving players the power to globally squelch other players. Right click ignore works better for fast cure in my opinion.

People have always been people, before and after the internet. I hope you’re not trying to blame the internet for the rise in ‘edginess.’

I have no interest in trying to understand a racist or a homophobic. I have zero interest in trying to understand a desperate attention seeker or a gold spammer. I have no desire to understand someone who is constantly spewing vulgarities and/or ignorance.

I already understand them. And having arrived at my understanding, I feel they’re an unwanted element and should be right click reported, squelched and even temp banned (pending review by a GM or w/e.)

My interest is in playing WoW Classic.

It’s admirable your first inclination is to understand these poor folks. Well done man.

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Right-click report is bad, m’kay, so if you do right-click report, you’re bad, m’kay, because right-click report is bad. It can hurt your body, m’kay, cause right-click report is bad, m’kaaay…

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Put “If” at the beginning and I almost feel like a blank thread with that as the title should be made in Classic Discussion every hour on the hour. :laughing:

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In the meantime just right click report all trolls who ask for changes, including right click report in classic. :sunglasses:

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Right klick reported! Don’t take away my right to right klick report everyone I don’t like for reasons…

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With RCR in retail but not in Classic, there’d be a constant flow of bored retail players rolling on classic just to troll/spam chat. There’ll be some anyway, but we don’t need to encourage them.

As far as it being abused, I’m sure Blizzard have figured out what sort of rules to have in place, like setting a fairly high bar and not squelching on the say-so of a single guild.

If people are being toxic enough in chat that enough random people feel they ought to be squelched, they probably ought to be squelched.

If that’s enough to stop some people from even playing, well, I don’t think they’ll be the people genuinely concerned about it being abused. They’ll be the people wanting to abuse a lack of moderation to spread their ugliness, and Azeroth will be a better place without them.

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LOL, oh how naive can a person get?

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Also works as a good response to anyone who doesn’t believe conspiracy theories :slight_smile:

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It really doesn’t but your response was to be expected.

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I’m glad you can appreciate irony!

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That word does not mean what you think it means.

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It does, but I’ll admit that you wouldn’t see your own comments as ironic, nor share my amusement in them. And that’s quite alright.

Anyway, this tit-for-tat is silly. Come, I’ll even let you have the last word, until such point as the the subject turns back to the good and ill of right-click-reporting.

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That was evident in your second reply but yet here you are. :roll_eyes:

You do know it is quite obvious whose alt you are circumventing a ban right?

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Hypothetically speaking just adding a GM review before the squelch would solve the “issue”. But what a lot of you don’t realize is there are a lot of people that plan on being insufferable DBAGS who won’t like even a GM review before a squelch. They have every intention on being annoying and want there to be NO repercussions for doing so.

That’s why a consensus cannot be reached on this. Otherwise this issue would have been agreed upon ages ago.

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Agreed. If someone gets a lot of reports, get a GM to look at it. Naturally, it would be a large amount…otherwise they’d need too much manpower.

Could be wrong, though; I’m not knowledgeable in how much work it’d be for Blizz…if they are even going to invest employees at all.

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Remove the ~20 player cap on the ignore list.

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Personally, I hate stupid names that people use. I like real names.

What do you mean by bad habits from pservers? The chat channels were fine fir the most part. You would get the thunder fury spam and things you see in retail chat. Of course it was less regulated too. Depends on the server i guess. Some were just like retail chat and some were just insane rambling and toxicity. Of course on pservers we were all on one server so you could get away with saying whatever because of the sheer number of players. Assuming they use decent pop caps in classic you won’t be able to be that toxic and keep a good reputation.

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People will want to be insufferable, but the best solution is still to have a GM review the reports before any action is taken against a player.

That prevents abuse while also not letting people run around doing whatever they want. Making right click also immediately put the person on ignore for you(it might already do this, not sure) also solves having to putting up with them in the immediate sense.

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any players abusing the report button, should get a 30 day ban…that will stop the abuse…lol

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