So why lie about it?
I already responded to that.
Thought you was against circle arguments?
are you?
your whole argument is absolutely nonsensical.
if it worked as you claimed, players would be screaming about it constantly.
first one mentions wintrading⌠nothing about a silence.
second one ⌠iâm really not understanding how itâs possible to report the opposing team for language?
Yeah, good one. Nice rebuttal. Made some strong arguments there.
We watched this episode last week. 
Youâre right, here I am, going round and round.
So, they would automate silences, without shame or subterfuge⌠but they would lie about it anyway? That makes absolutely zero sense.
Completely irrelevant.
They do have shame.
That doesnât mean they do not do it.
How is that irrelevant? lmao.
They are wasting the GMs time by creating âfalse flaggingâ situations to prove a point.
The GM being aware of this âexperimentâ is irrelevant. Its wasting their time regardless if the GM is aware of the situation.
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But if the GM is unaware of the experiment then the people wasting the GMs time would be the players who falsely reported the person for no reason.
GMâs are completely irrelevant to begin with though.
The situation was not handled by a GM.
Why would they be ashamed? They have every right to moderate their game and their forums in any way they see fit. So if they decided to automate chat moderation and punishment, there would be absolutely nothing for them to feel ashamed about.
So again, why would they lie about it? Why would they not just say âyeah, if your post gets reported enough, it will automatically be moderated, and a punishment will be handed downâ ?
If i get in my discord and tell a bunch of my friends to report me to prove a point about the reporting system, then yes. We are all wasting their time.
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just checked⌠and it is possible⌠but iâm not sure why⌠surely if someone is able to report an opposing player for language, the issue wouldnât be the language, it would be cross faction communication⌠which seems a big weird, but itâs probably because all the report functions are generalized across the board.
lol ok.
well⌠you continue to get your âfactsâ from streamers if that makes you feel goodâŚ
just donât listen to models when it comes to vaccinating your kids.
You just said itâs irrelevant if Blizzard knows that or not, and now youâre using it to justify your argument. You donât have that luxury, you have to rationalize why the reported person is at fault if the GM has no idea that they asked to be reported.
The facts are literally spelled out for you.
They said word for word âafter investigationâ. People have been silenced prior to investigation.
Why they lie is irrelevant. They did lie is the only takeaway.
Arguing with you is like arguing with a soundboard.
At least the other people in this thread arguing with me are making sense and bringing up relevant talking points. You contributed nothing.
iâm still trying to understand how someone could think the entire thing is automated, yet the playerbase are happy to accept this, and not go out of their way to cause as much grief as possible.
i mean⌠itâs not as if the playerbase are an angry and spiteful crew⌠automation of that level totally wouldnât be abused! 
People have been squelched prior to investigation. People are silenced after an investigation.
Functionally very similar, and yet not the same thing. A squelch is automatic, a silence is applied by a GM.
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Way to go posting about someone else without actually saying it to their face.
I bet you feel powerful, donât you? You sure showed this person.
I said it was irrelevant in the context of âwasting Blizzardâs timeâ. Your reply to it being stated that it was wasting their time is that Blizzard didnât know.
I am saying that is irrelevant. If anything that is exactly why its wasting their time.
If a person is using the reporting system wrongly (for an experiment) and it causes any work what so ever by Blizzard because of the person using the system wronglyâŚthen its wasting their time.
It doesnât matter if the GM is aware of the situation. (The situation beingâŚintentionally false flagging).
Asmongold received an email explicitly saying he had been silenced, not squelched.
Squelching lasts for 3 hours. The silence he received was a full 24 hours, coincidentally the length of the new silence feature.
The automated email also linked Asmongold to the account silence article. Which is an article that explains the silence feature.
Now if you actually go back and read that article today it says this:
The number of abusive chat reports necessary to penalize your account remains the same
Which would in fact imply automation.
That article also explains how future reports will continue to expand in severity of duration, which was not part of the squelch system, further implying that what happened to Asmongold was indeed the new silence system.
And youâre using that to justify the automated action taken against that person, which I am saying is incorrect because Blizzard has no idea that thatâs the situation.
No I am not. All I said is that Blizzard knowing (or not knowing) about the experiment has no bearing on it âwasting Blizzardâs timeâ.