of course they should. the question is, do they?
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All of this wouldnât be as big an issue, but the appeals process takes as long as the auto punishment.
I donât think much for people who sell boosts but I also feel bad for anyone that gets falsely reported
Doubtful. If they did we wouldnât see false reporting to the degree that people do it. Squelching has apparently been in the game for 11 years.
I thought it was a legion pre-patch feature
NOTHING should effect a player if another player reports you unless it is verified by Blizz staff, this game has too many 10 year old griefers who just want to make others miserable, and giggle behind their keyboards . For some players, its all they do.
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Its quite likely that reporting will happen more often after the release of the new information on boosting. Its a bit like reporting bots; even if its only some single druid farming up some herbs across a single zone, some players will report it as a bot on the assumption that it is one, or just to report it maliciously.
While guilds can still advertise carries, it would probably be wise to have a couple of different characters do the announcements and change the wording so it canât be considered spam under the current definitions. But people should be aware that Blizzard actively advised that such things should be done in Trade, so reporting someone for doing what Blizzard tells them to do is obviously wrong.
âIndividuals and guilds selling items and services for gold is allowed but can only be advertised in-game through the Trade chat channel.â
(Interesting observation: would doing that in the General chat channel therefore be wrong???)
There was a forum post about it as far back as 2011. I believe the legion pre-patch feature was just them making reporting people much easier through right click reporting.
2/19/11
The issue is this one will stick due to the raw amount of people who think ALL boosting has been banned. Just like the people who still believe multiboxing was banned. It still to this day only takes me about 5 minutes to start getting messaged about reporting me for multiboxing if I login more than one toon.
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If what youâre doing annoys so many people that you flag the auto-silence⊠maybe stop doing it.
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Oh yes, I know. Even now Im seeing people in city chat saying âboosting has been bannedâ which it obviously hasnât.
remember when multiboxing was a thing, it was not banned but still people mass report them and banned them, same will happen with boosting, now multiboxing isnt a thing any more.
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Remember when we were told that banning multiboxing would get rid of bots. Yeah I remember that too. Completely fictional, but itâs what people believed.
well at least some booster will feel the hammer!
This would require Blizzard to hire GMâs and stop automating something that shouldnât be automated. Which might happen when MS takes over but isnât happening now
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Here is what the prepatch feature says. Blizzard chooses their words very carefully, and deceptively in the post. They say that an account will not be silenced until after a gm has investigated. However nothing about a squelch is ever mentioned. As far as most players are concerned these are basically the same thing since either way you can no longer talk in chat.
âwell at least some unsuspecting player/guild playing within the new rules will feel the hammerâ - There fixed that for you.
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thatâs probably where I got the idea that it was a legion feature.
Squelch is really old. It was the primary way to deal with gold spammers. If there are a log of unique (diff Bnet account) reports in a short time it auto squelched them pending GM review. Blizzard did not talk about it very often and almost nobody who was not a gold spammer ran into it. It came up on the CS forums on rare occasions when a prolific trade chat crafter got hit with itâŠ
At that time, chat penalties were to Suspend people from the game totally.
In 2016 they added a new penalty and system. They added Silence instead of Suspending people, esp for first offenses. That removed people who misused chat from being able to use social features. Punishment fitting the offense so to speak. Each Silence applied to the account means the next doubles in duration. People can go from 1 day to weeks pretty fast if they donât stop it.
However, even THAT did not work and Blizz has now made some additional changes.
- Warnings in game if you are being reported a lot
- Notification if your report resulted in action
- Suspensions have always been in the tool box, but they are using them again for repeat chat offenses.
Yeah, Iâm betting most people didnât even know about squelching until then. Probably also has to do with how a squelch would have happened before the change in Legion. Multiple people would have had to fill out a report form back in 2011 to get someone squelched, so it most likely rarely happened. However since they made it a simple two clicks and done it happens a lot more now. Most players would not be willing to waste their time over something so trivial, but now its no longer a waste of time.
This is why I donât think the new rule is going to be enforced consistently or fairly. Blizzard, especially since they started automating the report system, are notoriously bad at handling player issues like this.