Yes im paranoid because if the guy that handles Reports is having a bad day can give a ban for anything they want because they rarely overturn bans. I didnt even bother with my “Suck Him” ban because if thats how things are going to be like fine I get it but not a warning? not 1 day? not 3 days? not 5 days? a Week. for saying that. Think about that.
This was my first verbal ban…7 days.
If you get a ban that you feel like wasn’t justified, that’s what the appeal process is for. Then if “that one guy was having a bad day”, someone new looks at it to see if the ban or silence was justified.
If the appeal gets the same result, then maybe, just maybe, the thing you said is something that Blizzard has decided shouldn’t get said in the game, and your enforced downtime will be a learning experience if somehow you genuinely didn’t think it was objectionable.
I can’t see into the history of your account, but most people don’t catch a seven day ban from the jump from what I’ve seen. Usually that means that they found a lot of other things worth objecting to in your chat history once they took a look and a history of other account reports and actions. Oddly, that’s been the case with every single person that I’ve seen over the years who complained in the Customer Support forum that they got an unjust ban for chat.
The entertainment value of the blues helping people remember those kinds of things is a pretty amusing perk of hanging out there.
Then we need to invent our own cuss words. As a community that wont violate the TOS
What is profanity? I mean if a supreme court justice cant even define a woman…who here has the right to say what a profaine word is? After all i may identify as a person who finds the word “darn” as offensive and profaine.
Whos to say? I am word malleable. I want representation.
Blizzard. Their game their rules.
But then they are wordist. And wordaphobes. I should be able to say what i want without discrmination and censoring.
well you’re clearly not that worried because you’ve repeated the phrase you claim you got banned for like 4 more times in this thread
you are able to. just not in a venue they own.
You can say what you want you just aren’t free of the consequences of saying what you want. No one is stopping you from cursing like a sailor in chat just be prepared to live with Blizzard silencing you for doing it.
But the government goes after little shops that refuse to make cakes for gay couples based on their religous beliefs. Those stores are privately owned too.
Why the hypocrisy?
Then thats discriminatory.
No, it isn’t. A private company has every right to set the rules of conduct and enforce them hoe the see fit. If you choose to not follow those rules you agreed to when you started playing the game that’s on you, not Blizzard.
No you can’t. They have at least one word filtered, one used only by the most elite of pro gamers.
Their refusal to expand it and make it easier to identify people who slip through the cracks of their presently vague rules is a mark of laziness on their part, but that’s hardly something new.
Ummm. Private bakeries are being prosecuted for not serving gay couples based on their religous beliefs.
So “A private company has every right to set the rules of conduct and enforce them hoe the see fit…” is automatically an untrue statement.
Except you are not being discriminated against because you got in trouble for using “colorful” language. Now, if Blizzard suspended your account because you live in Ohio and they don’t allow Ohioans to play their games then you’d have a case for being discriminated against.
Use at your own risk.
And yet this happens to me on the forums on a continuous basis. So no, I do not trust this. I do not trust Blizzard CM’s to err due to accident when everything I’ve seen points to malice.
Furthermore, I find it a little humorous that you ascribe ‘hyperventilating’ and ‘pearl clutching’ to the people who simply aren’t on board with this latest iteration of corporate bracelet jingling. I don’t work for Activision Blizzard, I don’t feel like I should be at the mercy of their HR person.
And for the love of Pete (because Pete’s a really nice guy), could we stop with the frog-boiling “20 years later, rules haven’t changed” nonsense? You are so mistaken on that point it’s not even worth the time to correct you. Go read the EULA. It explicitly says that it can be changed with little or no warning, and has been several times over the lifetime of the game. The last IIRC being the banning of cross server groups doing paid carries.
Assume what you will. My comment wasn’t anti-anyone
I agree look at this post made on this before
Jaevin was removed and the SO_ Rollo was not.
Are we to believe that Blizzard will be fair even-handed I don’t believe so!
Very well said. I have probably another ban incoming for a comment I made in this very thread. Constant bans for sharing my thoughts and ideas that are unequivocally not bigoted, hateful etc.