I was on a lvl 2 orc shaman in the starting zone (retail version), minding my own business and I receive a warning for misconduct.
I did LITERALLY nothing to interact with any other players…chat or otherwise.
Something needs to be done to fix this problem of players reporting random players for misconduct if they dont like the color of the player character’s hair, or the character clicking on a quest item before them or any other behaviour that is not actually social interaction.
You dont get warnings for nothing It could just as easily be from a another toon you were playing. Blizzard does take action if people are falsely reporting but weve had blues that would say other wise.
The warning is simply a courtesy that multiple people reported you in a short amount of time. It is not a judgement that what you were doing was or was not allowed.
Players do get in trouble if they continuously abuse the report system. But it does not happen immediately. There needs to be a pattern.
Players are allowed to use the report system, and let Blizzard sort it out. There is no requirement that every report must be 100% correct.
Warning are nothing, they are what they are, a warning. Now if you got squelched, silenced or suspended, that is another issue.
Just a thought, where you killing the targeting dummies on the ship for xp? I got warning for doing that, but nothing came of it.
Prior to this warning I was sitting on my mount in Dalaran on my DK in Wrath Classic doing guild stuff while watching a YT video (again, zero social interaction besides guild chat)… 30 minutes before logging onto retail.
Would that include adverting runs in a very short period of time.
My biggest concern here is what behaviour has triggered the warning?? As stated in my post i was doing absolutely nothing besides picking up a quest and killing mobs to complete the quest…
Usually if you are doing something wrong and you get a warning, usually in about 10 minuite you get a squelch or time out. I usually don’t sweat the random warnings. If you are confidant that you are doing nothing wrong, nothing is gonna happen to you.
I was doing the starter quests in the orc starting zone…that was all. Did not whisper/chat to any players, did not even /say anything.
Then don’t fret about it. I wouldn’t.
No I was not using Trade Chat or LFG channel at all. ZERO global social interactions
Fair enough some people do there guild advertising and think its not spamming but there posting way to frequently and getting reported for it thats why i asked.
For what it’s worth? When other people have come here in similar straits, I am pretty sure I have seen our SFAs remark where they cant even see what behavior is being reported. It’s not something the staff sees until it progresses past the warning stage and flags your account or actions for GM review. If you’re not doing anything wrong, then I wouldn’t worry about it.
At worst, supposed mass reporting will only generate an automatic squelch, which will last only until a GM looks over all the data. If you’re not breaking any rules, nothing will happen.
I couldn’t answer that. Based on what you have said, nothing out of the ordinary, so the reports would not lead to any action. It’s really between you and Blizzard. They can see the whole story, and that’s what they will go on.
You have to keep in mind that these warnings can come late. Just know that receiving a warning isn’t the end of the world, or your account is going to go extinct. It just simply means that you need to be watching your p’s and q’s while playing. This can include, swearing at others, sexual content, disrespect, spamming, etc.
This just happened to me as well in AV (players saying they will report you for doing an objective the crowd doesn’t want you to do). False reporting, especially in BGs is out of control. I do not trust the reporting system in this game. The fact that players can abuse it and clearly are not worried about the consequences of abusing it is very concerning to me. Whats even worse is when it happened to me I was in the middle of fighting in the AV and by the time I had a chance to report them for falsely reporting me the option to report them from chat was gone. I do know there are players in AV who are falsely reporting players for simply fighting Balinda in AV. They’re calling it “sabotaging the game by prioritizing XP” or something like that someone said in my AV. I hardly feel comfortable playing the game anymore. Like I said, I don’t trust the reporting system and there needs to be serious changes to it. The false reporting needs to stop in this game.
To clarify, I had players say they would report me for engaging Balinda in AV which in my opinion is a form of false reporting.
Honestly unless u actualy get silenced or squelched the warning is just that you have nothing to worry about and IF u get actioned apeal either the logs back u up or there may have been previous reports that they look at that are worth actioning over.
See, here is the thing. People can report anyone for anything. Now, weaponizing reports is a different thing entirely, but for the sake of this conversation, we’re focusing on what you are calling false reporting.
Were you suspended? Or was the temporary squelch kicked on, or were you fully punished with a 7 day silence? This kind of information is key.
If you were silenced for 7 days or outright suspended - then there wasn’t anything false reported. A real live GM looked over the data of the reports and found you in violation of the rules. If it was a temporary squelch? Then it is pending GM review. The cincher here is that you can be reported for anything. But nothing is going to happen to you unless you were breaking the rules.
Now, the temporary squelch, yes. That can kick in if enough people report you for chat violations. But anything else as punishment isn’t false reporting or abuse of the system.
[EDIT] It’s getting late and these different threads about false reports and mass reports are bleeding together on me. So I do apologize. I realized afterwards that this thread is just about receiving warnings, not actual sanctions.
Since Blizzard doesn’t tell you who is reporting you, are you just going by what others in the game are saying? Also, the most a player can don in-game in a BG, is report you AFK. That’s it. At most, it will remove you from the BG. In order to receive any other account actions, it requires a GM to look at the logs and determine if anything wrong actually happened.
Who is “they”? Other players? Blizzard? Who is calling it that? I’ve never heard that term before.
Again, the most that can happen from in-game reports or “mass-reports” would be removal from the BG. Nothing more until a GM looks into the account action.
Unfortunately, with the exception of maybe 4-5 cases that I’ve seen over many years posting here…literally 10+ years and thousands upon thousands of posts…only in about 4-5 cases have I seen a Blue come back and confirm that a mistake was made when an actual account action was taken.
Meaning, all the “I didn’t deserve that account silence…I didn’t say anything wrong!” posts, twice I’ve seen them say, and I’m paraphrasing, “yeah, looks like they made a mistake” or with account actions, “looks like something was missed here…”.
It’s rare, but it happens.
This generally speaking, really isn’t a thing. Reports lead to a GM looking at the logs. If nothing is found, no action is taken.
Here is the problem with this. I don’t want anyone reporting me for ANYTHING unless it is legitimate. I consider any report, whether it brings an account action or not, a false report that is done out of spite or for any reason other than for what they reported the player for. I know players are abusing the reporting in the game because I see them publicly admit it in the chats in AV. When they say they are going to report you for literally going over to Balinda in AV, that is false reporting. What happened to me happened about an hour ago and nothing has come of it. I don’t think it will. That isn’t the point. The point is players are doing it and it deters me from playing the game and especially participating in chat. The fact that players don’t fear the consequence of false reporting does concern me.