I have one thing to say, Hey blizzard I’m holding up one finger guess which one!
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Haha ya same
What happened?
If you get kicked out of a match, that means you were flagged as AFK and did not participate before you were kicked. That’s a very rare thing to happen accidentally. I can count on one hand the number of times it has ever happened to me personally in my history of playing this game, and in none of those cases was I actually kicked.
And I’m someone who defends bases a lot.
you’re number one!! 
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Nope, sometimes sheer volume of reports can insta lob somebody. 
Flagged AFK is a thing, though.
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Well I guess I never said something so offensive to get reported by enough people then.
same.
shot in the dark but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lsn2tT5yTc
I talk pretty regularly in chat during BGs. Never got reported that I know of. Not actionable anyway. I would be interested to see this conversation though to see what was actually said.
They have an article!
Here:
There are 2 debuffs for AFK reports. The first is idle debuff:
If ya still afk after 1 min, then inactive debuff:
If you AFK a ton which some players do esp when grinding honor at the start of the season, then:
Pretty sure you’re wrong about the AFK volume report kick, Kennie. But if you ask here:
I’d be very curious if they said there was. I don’t think there is though.
Edit: I mention the above because account actions (until AI is implemented) are slow, usually weeks+. So the OP was not kicked for anything said in the current BG according to all the info currently available.
You only need 5 or 6 consecutive reports for AFK to instant kick someone from a BG. Many sync premade communities do it all the time to kick people who weren’t following a certain strategy
For example, RUIN would do this to individuals on their team who capped Refinery or Quarry, and it would instant kick that player.
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I’ve heard that too Troolys. But, I have not been able to find any actual evidence of it though other than anecdotal.
You know what, after this BG (is lost, doh!..we’re getting our booties handed to us in this Ashran), I’ll post a thread in Customer Support and see if I can ferret some Blue responses insight to it.
Edit: Okay I went ahead and asked there. Maybe some quality answers can be gotten.
Edit edit: I don’t think I am actually going to get a solid answer. So we’re right back to believe what ya want. But, they do have an article which I linked above.
If you want evidence do it yourself. I can tell you from my personal testing, it works. You need 5-6 consecutive AFK reports and it’ll instantly boot the player.
Edit for clarification on testing:
Make a full party with some friends and queue for an epic BG. Find some unfortunate bloke or someone who’s genuinely AFK to test it on. Have every one of you in your party report the dude AFK, and you’ll see the guy gets instantly kicked.
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I started thread asking for some clarification to the rules re: AFK. It’s in Customer Support.
There was some details there. But in the end it ended up being lawyery and too technical for me to want to end up debating.
Like one would have to be a repeat AFK offender across multiple BGs, be not in combat, be reported by X number of people over Y amount of time, not get into combat for 1 minute and then, boom, they kicked. So kinda instant kick? Maybe?
Anyway, yeah, it’s kinda like the mass report chat myth thingy. People can believe what they believe, I’m just gonna let it be. Blizz already made their post, it’s linked above, and I’ll never be kicked, well, not in 20 years yet, so it is what it is.
I’m telling you, 100% certainty, it works like I’ve described.
I would record a video of me and 4 other friends mass reporting some poor unfortunate soul to get them kicked, but then that might fall under griefing. Seriously, try it yourself.
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I am not saying you are wrong because I agree with you that testing it would involve manipulating the report system and that has been specifically covered by Blues as a no-no. So one cannot safely test it.
The article is all I can find and while it is rather specific, there is back and forth re: it in the post I made.
Maybe there is some legacy code that allows the system the article mentions to be bypassed.
In the end the clarity I sought was kinda murky. Heh.
Troolys is correct. Seen this in action in epic battlegrounds many, many times over the years.
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I have never seen anyone actually confirm that this actually happens, and it’s never happened to me.
Unless or until we get a blue post clarifying the issue, or someone who has recorded actual reproducible testing (by abusing the report system which is itself an offense so unlikely), all we have is the word of people who say “trust me bro it totally happens.”
Which is, unfortunately, not up to the level of evidence I require to personally believe it’s a thing.
I mean if you believe that 5 people can report someone afk and they are instantly kicked because people say it happens, then you should also believe all the other weird conspiracy theories that are thrown around all over the place that people also say happens.
I am not disputing the claim or saying it’s untrue. I honestly do not know, but I am not willing to believe it just because random people say it happens especially when the few articles and blue posts that DO talk about it lack any mention of an instant kick from being reported. They all mention there is some sort of timer, but repeat offenders get kicked faster.
I know I’ve had the inactive warning probably about 5 times in all my time playing the game, and at no point was I ever actually removed from a battleground. Ever. (I don’t count disconnects as those have nothing to do with the report system).
So I think it’s up to everyone to believe what they want, but for me there’s no evidence to believe this is a thing that happens just because people say it does. People say a lot of stuff that is not true. Show me evidence. Show me a blue post or article that says you are instantly kicked from a battleground if you’re reported as AFK. A quote from anyone with authority and knowledge on the subject. But a “it totally happened to me/my friend/my brother’s girlfriend’s dogwalker’s son’s next door neighbor!”
Edit: Also just because it happened 5 years ago doesn’t mean it happens now.
I hear ya Snowcrest.
I’ve been in many 1000s of BG myself over the years. I don’t remember seeing this and certainly have never experienced it. Granted over the last couple of years I’ve had /i and /w off mostly. Not always with /i, but mostly…ya kinda get a feel what is happening after a decade or two. So maybe something like that has happened and I have been blissfully unaware.
Anyway, it’s not that big of a thing. My understanding was based on what I have seen in game and what Blizz wrote. Maybe there is some wonky coding/system in there, but I have never seen it.
I am not saying you are wrong, only that all I have seen personally seen is exactly what was covered in the article. I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first time or the last I am sure.
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That also tracks with how long I’ve seen it take actual AFK people to be removed from the match after we all reported them as AFK. Seemed to take a minute or two. It certainly wasn’t instant.