so the cuts happened in 2012, whats your point?
It was always in classic.
There is an official LookingForGroup channel. There is also a general channel. Furthermore you as a user can create infinite channels.
Sorry, but hard nope. It is on you to abide by what you agreed to when you began playing.
The auto-squelch has been in the game since May of 2007. The staff cuts were in 2012.
Were they prepping for their staff pruning 5 years in advance?
I’m with him here. I NEVER believe a player crying on the forums until evidence is posted. This reeks of the same BS from CSGO forums or subreddits where players lay out sob stories about how they were falsely banned for cheating and they ALWAYS were proven wrong. Or how the one player from Fallout 76 was banned for “playing too much” when in reality he had like 20 times more items than was physically possible even if you played max efficiency 24 hours a day.
That being said. I have never reported anyone in any game outside of hating some kid’s guts in a CSGO match and hoping a yolo report somehow turns out to be right.
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i guess they were. it was an obvious cost cutting move,
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If you aren’t simply trolling, well you have no idea what you are talking about, auto-squelch was added eons after original warcraft. There was fantastic uproar and anger as well as support. In general, it was added both because Blizzard was de-staffing support (originally, humans did everything, humans with salaries, not so much now) and to help the new generation of people who had an enhanced expectation that “someone in charge do something” when they saw people spin really truly crazy junk in chat about whatever.
LFG is there and it was pretty much never used, if one is not joined to it by default it’s useless and people know it. Let me say that again, it’s USELESS and people know it. This (I mean using /2 trade) is generally now how groups were formed. Unless Blizzard runs some script and auto-joins everyone to LFG and changes it so that people are automatically joined to it at character creation, it will forever remain useless.
And yes, leave the channel if it bothers you. That is and was the time honored way to deal with it.
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Yet another reason for a WotLK server!
Ignore lists are capped.
I am not trolling. I am being accurate and nice. It was always in classic. Words are important.
I recall no such thing. Care to cite some of that? Most people have no idea when squelch and silence actually were put in game, much less were uproariously angry.
On Grobbulous it is hella used. So much so that trade is a lot easier to read.
And it is time that idiocy stopped, especially since an official one-stop-shop for LFG already exists.
Be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. A place for everything and everything in it’s proper place. Is organization really that painful for you lot? The lot that suggests that others create separate tabs to hide what they do not want to see (despite the fact that it would also hide what they are viewing the channel for).
OOOOOOOooooooor, if RCR bothers you, don’t disrupt public channels with idiocy and instead use those channels for their intended function. If that is too much of a bother, then eat the RCRs coming your way.
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She’s responding because others keep calling her out.
I’m betting 90% of the posters in this thread are the babies that use trade and lookingforgroup as attention-getting devices, or soap boxes.
Make your own channels. Call it Globalnews or something.
Don’t cry about being reported for misusing a channel or spamming. Your whining is just as bad as hers. Worse, actually, because she is less annoying.
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Come on, when people complain in forums they always tell the truth.
For example, I got banned for 24 hours because some tank reported me for not thanking him for tanking.
Yes, that’s now a thing. There’s a long thread on it here. Always thank your tank.
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Control. This is what people really wanted Classic for, to regain CONTROL over their fellow players. Bunch of sad sacks really.
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Lookingforgroup is pretty hotly used on the servers I’ve played on.
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Funny how you know how to stop the “spam” you’re not interested in and choose to report them anyway. And if you’re not buying, why wouldn’t you choose ignore?
“If I don’t wanna see it, no one should!”
Go read Fahrenheit 451
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Why are so many people nowadays super into silencing others?
Remember when we valued allowing people to express themselves, even if we don’t like what they are saying?
It used to be that somebody who spent a lot of energy trying to silence somebody else was seen as a fascist and a bad person. Now it feels like people are virtue-signaling by expressing the need to silence others.
Pretty disgusting behavior. Childish.
I feel youer pain I was Silenced I only got 24 hours and that was just for looking for a group
Again, there is a very low limit to the ignore list. Servers are more populated now.
Isn’t it just as easy to make a new channel for various spammers? That way nobody is getting reported, and nobody has to hear the bs.
It seems like quite a few folks seek out the busiest channel to spew their nonsense in.
Either you (and many other people here) weren’t there and don’t know, or you were there and you are spinning miss-truths, at this point, I don’t care which. It’s an unproductive conversation. This is all old news and it’s been hashed over again and again, the first time when auto-squelch was added. And then again and again and again. If Blizz doesn’t care that their systems are being gamed (and I don’t think they really have much interest in it) then there’s not much point to any of this.
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All i can say for myself is that i report people who spam like 3 times in rapid succession. Or people who spam their services in lfg chat. That is not what lfg chat is for.
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Good grief. 