Making it legal in game and easily accessable by all players is the problem though.
Yes it has always been a thing but it wasn’t a problem because only really rich players and people willing to get banned for buying gold could do it. Now that there is no worry of breaking rules and it is much faster than just playing the game, it has gone up by 5000%.
There is a reason that boost culture only came around in force after the wow token was introduced.
Serious question. How often are you posting. If I see someone posting something 3x per minute I report for spam and I’m sure others do the same
This whole…initiative lets call it, seems completely half baked - the in game reporting system is a joke, and auto silences are in place. If they want to remove the middlemen / make it so that only in game players involved in the carries can actually advertise them without breaking ToS, then they should have adequate staff to handle the monitoring of trade chat if that’s the tool they want sellers to use.
Or, put something in place for the sellers to advertise on so that the chat feature isn’t being spammed / become unusable. Like…LFG that already exists…
-Calls out in the background.-
Mass report them more!
Remember when people were reporting people for not inviting them to their fallen charger group and people were getting squelched for it? Good system, great job Blizzard
Once every 10ish mins or after a m+ I’ll post once.
That’s literally not true. People have been paying for boosts with gold since vanilla. I remember paying Mages for SM cath runs 16+ years ago lol
It’s always been around and always will be.
ITT (and several others), people make it quite clear they report others just because they don’t like something.
This idiotic squelching that’s penalizing innocent players is a result of a system that allows others to be the judge, jury and executioner.
Honestly the easiest way to fix it is for blizz to silence/ban people for false reports. Innocent or not at this point people who report non violations should suffer repercussions.
They can get it overturned by a GM if they disagree.
okay thats fine. I feel like that its reactionary and that people feel empowered and the witch hunt begins. I remember in Cataclysm guilds selling carries and the moose runs in WoD. This isnt new. The community spam good riddance but guilds should be able to make their gold without fear of mob mentality.
It really is. We have posts in the forums which give you a prime example of the mob mentality at work:
This is precisely why I made the “something needs to be done about squelching” topic, because /2 is ran by a mob at this point.
Yah I honestly haven’t even seen any legit spam in trade but lots of reports still. People just trolling with reports for the most part.
I do think the level 10s advertising should be reported but anyone on their main advertising once every so often is probably legit.
Agreed, if it’s plainly obvious that the toon is not going to be participating in the activity, or they’re actually spamming, or they’re just posting in the wrong channel, then report away.
Legit players playing by the rules don’t deserve the mob punishments they’ve been getting.
This is like the whole multiboxing software / hardware mirror input ban except 10x more impactful to the community due to the sheer amount of boosters to boostees compared to people that were boxing / still are boxing (be it in the new rules).
I’m glad the big boosting conglomerates (wow I actually spelled that without the auto correct) are gone due to the blatant RMT that was going on and hopefully everything will help smaller guilds and groups but if they are caught RMTing the gold that they are actioned appropriately.
I would like to see the GM force expanded upon so if there are squelches applied that it doesn’t run out in the 24 hour period that if someone is doing something inappropriate it’s dealt with quick so the player can get back to doing what they are doing along with dealing with people that do abuse the report system.