New suspension system shows the serious flaws in blizz archaic system

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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I’ll fully admit I dropped a few F bombs in chat… and I’m sure there will be some trolling comment saying how you can’t do that because it’s against ToS…but come on, everyone knows that’s just trolling to report on that.

Anyways, THIS IS NEW, AND IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL

when you get suspended now – it shows you every single message you sent that players reported you for.

So on day 1 of WOTLK, I’m sure many people experienced the pain of the quest ‘Foolish Endeavors’ with Getry in Borean Tundra. Only the person who started this, could get credit and being in a group didn’t work (this has since been fixed).

So let’s review some of the things I got reported for:

(on the Getry quest, day 1)
“I def started this one” – I guess someone was really mad they were not able to click faster ?

many, many, many messages in WG, here are my absolute favorites:

(as we were driving around 12 siege out of one workshop at the same time)
‘TRAFFIC JAM’

yes…I got reported for saying ‘TRAFFIC JAM’ :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

  • ‘we are going to lose if we keep bashing east’
  • ‘WEST OR LOSE’
  • '‘oh we have 3 minutes…UGH’
  • ‘we got 1 wall?’
  • ‘the only time we ever win is if you queue 25 mins after and play against 5 ally’
  • ‘literally the entire game was spent on 1 side’
  • ‘games over’

Someone said in world ‘whats the best movie ever made?’
and I typed ‘Drillbit Taylor’ which I got reported for :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: okay that one is fair.

Funny as well, I got reported 3 separate times for saying:

  • ‘invite me’

I guess multiple people were extremely offended I was in the same quest zone as them.

Ultimately, dropping an F bomb in chat is a suspendable offense, I think that’s absolutely absurd but what are ya gonna do… I guess I’ll just say ‘TRAFFIC JAM’ in WG on my 2nd account.

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Have you tried not dropping F bombs in chat?

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I’m guessing that you would assume it’s severely habitual, but what’s hilarious is…

Total number of messages reported: 43
Number of messages with F bomb: 4

All 4 of those, were from the very first day Wrath was out :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: and I got a notice of suspension last night. the last 2 messages reported:

‘drillbit taylor’
‘traffic jam’

I honestly think it’s pretty funny, I was laughing out loud in real life reading through the messages and just cracking up thinking about someone taking the time to right click your name, and click report for saying ‘drillbit taylor’ or something else like ‘invite me’

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It seems you misunderstand exactly what the sample chat is showing you. It is only a SAMPLE.

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Maybe – but seems weird that there is often times just a single line from a given period. Like I know the zone I said Drillbit Taylor – it was yesterday, and I know I said ‘TRAFFIC JAM’ in WG… so it was different zones, different times.

I mean – I wouldn’t expect any sort of highly functioning system, so who knows.

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its a self solving problme that blizzs engineers solved perfectly.
let the community spam reports on ppl they dislike cus how are hte disliked supposed to do anything about it?
only safe way is to not say anything and that guarantees 0 need for epxensive moderation/gms

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This system was a HUGE problem in SoM – you were in the minority if you didn’t have a suspension at some point.

It’s turned into upvote / downvote on reddit you disagree with something (like Drillbit Taylor…which is obviously a joke) you ‘report’ the person as if you are downvoting on Reddit.

Yeah…maybe if I had wrote ‘this is effed’ instead of writing out the F bomb – it wouldn’t be a problem, easy appeal. But I’ll fully accept and own that.

What’s hilarious is the other stuff, and it honestly cracks me up reading these.

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Like i said, I will own that I dropped F bombs.

maybe I should have wrote ‘effing’ instead. So I’m not arguing that (although, I disagree with that).

The rest is just hilarious though!

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nobody will care that you dropped a f bomb. they care that your aggrogin them on purpose nad being annoying

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And that’s exactly what’s wrong with the system…

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I think it’s a UI issue. Buddy of mine since the latest patch said that when he goes to invite people it goes to Report. He’s audibly sighed a dozen times in discord over the last few days followed by “No, I don’t want to report, I want to invite”

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That’s annoying. But I’m sure that’s not it.

Of those 43 messages, almost all of them I know are from in WG games. Like over 30 of them.

People literally just treat everyting like a downvote on reddit.

you didn’t like that someone said ‘WEST OR LOSE’ then you report them… lol you’d never know adults played this game.

It also seems to be related to how dead your server is…the more dead your server, the more likley you are to report out of boredom (this was pretty obvious from dead servers in SoM).

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Have you considered developing an internal locus of control?

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Have you considered making a constructive comment, ever, instead of just trolling?

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Would a hug help, friend?

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No, please never offer to physically touch me ever again.

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Rejection hurts. I’ll hug you, bro.

Don’t steal my wallet.

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Help me find my locus

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I’m pretty sure it’s PEBKAC most of the time.

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Hug.

I wouldn’t steal your wallet, 8 bucks and an old prophylactic aren’t that tempting.

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