Um, this is entirely inaccurate. There is a few posters who does troll the forums or sock puppet. Reason why Blizzard doesn’t fully go into details with all this, because they have certain policies that restricts them from disclosing such information.
While some people know of some people who do troll and sock puppet the forums, Blizzard knows more on who does and who doesn’t. And CS staff such as Vrak or Orylia, can’t disclose that sort of information on who does or doesn’t.
vrak already said that sock puppets n alt hopping werent that bad, even when tsquad was up he said it wasn’t just one person, it was multiple people and he was notorious.
so yeah, people really think we have a rampant amount of trolls and its strange lmao.
People just view anyone that disagrees or is passive aggressive with them as trolls. They have this idea that the forums will magically start agreeing with their posts and they will become more favorable if only we had btags.
I don’t think that’s the case. I think sock-puppeting is not common and neither is trolling really. The worst of the trolls are actually dealt with pretty quickly as well.
March 2nd they mention most instances are incorrect as to reiterate of what they’ve said before, most of the time people calling others someone else are incorrect.
May 22nd they stated they keep an eye out for sockpuppeting and action it. They stated it isn’t very common, and in many of the cases they look into the people accusing others of beings alts of x or y character have almost always been wrong.
And this should absolutely include joining a thread on a topic you don’t like, but is a perfectly acceptable topic, with the intent of getting the thread deleted because you don’t like what it’s asking for.