Don’t care, I was addressing a specific point the OP made that was demonstrably false.
Yet you throw in stuff like this. I’m betting arena carries take far more work and effort and skill to do than professions.
While still addressing the point of USING A PROFESSION TO MAKE MONEY.
Saying "you can’t make money with a profession is absolute NONSENSE, and anyone saying that HASN’T DONE THE WORK TO FIND THAT OUT.
Reading comprehension is a thing. Learn it.
And trade chat didn’t initially exist just to be a place for people to advertise carries either, but here we are 
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imo what they NEED to do is create a specific LFG system that looks similar to a request board. only, its the person looking to get boosted that needs to make the post. then boosters have to apply for the job. the person looking for the boost determines which applicant gets the job. it could be a live group finder so both parties have to be online.
this would keep people advertising it out of chats. avoid false flags. and require that people already looking for a service be the ones to begin the process.
the request board tab, could also be used for people looking for guild signatures. a tank or heals to help dungeon ques go faster. maybe even have requests for old matts if spamming trade chat isnt working.
No but it did exist as a channel to sell goods and services for gold. Which is what boosting was. I won’t argue with you that the spam was far too much, but at the end of the day no rules were being broken until Blizzard had to change the rules.
But the services being offered back in the day were professions, access to rare patterns, transmute cooldowns and such, i miss the days in WoW where paying for people to take you somewhere or give you gear was something that people would be embarrassed to talk about publicly lol
In a thread about someone being falsely reported and punished for selling something.
Bringing up professions in the first place was just a troll comment, and it got a sarcastic response from OP.
You should try your own advice. Look at the entire thread, don’t take single post out of context.
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I didn’t. I took it in the exact context in which it was posted.
Maybe stop white knighting so hard and try keeping up with the conversation.
Edit: Also, I’m done with you. Ignored and muted. Goodbye.
You didn’t.
Staying on topic is white knighting.
time to report these cheaters spamming the trade chat!
Yeah, I totally heard it from a friend of a friend who saw it on Facebook.
Please, if only.
This is a great post covering the “but there is a filter” thing. It is there because some people can’t follow rules they agreed to, not to give you free license to break the rules.
The filter is not there for you to be able to say whatever you wish. It is an added layer of protection to allow parents of minors to block such language from their children while playing. It is also available for others who simply don’t want to see it, which is entirely within their right.
The ignore option also doesn’t allow you to say whatever you wish. It is there to help folks mitigate their social interactions. If you want to use inappropriate language, subject matter, or otherwise be toxic, that is entirely up to you. You may do so in the privacy of your own home, or other places that may tolerate it, but you’ll want to refrain from typing it out.
You want them to go tickets that say “help”? The whole point of the right click report is that it captures the actual chat logs so a GM can review. It means they don’t have to hope the reporter included the name, server, chat channel, time stamp, and nature of the offense. The report captures it all.
You should really read some of the posts on CS…
This whole thread https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/targetted-harassment-with-report-feature-black-mail-pvp-ranking/1174421
And the follow up one
The player claimed persecution, but it really really was not and they were very much doing things against the code of conduct.
You can get reported all someone wants, if you don’t break the rules you won’t get punished with an actual silence or suspension. Even then if a GM makes a mistake you can appeal.
SQUELCH is automatic and had been in game for a LONG time to deal with gold spammers and such. If an account gets a lot of unique reports in a short time it will get squelched pending GM investigation.
In that case - the “reported” streamer got squelched just like anyone with a lot of reports. BUT did not get Silenced. Instead he got Suspended for abusing the report system.
Don’t mix up a Squelch with a Silence. The Silence penalty is a black mark on your account and doubles each time it is applied.
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Good. To hell with boosting.