Of course they wont. If they let the “t” squad make those troll threads and give them flag protection then you can be certain this “streamlined” system coming in will be heavily abused with a bias blizzard.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that if someone were to look at the posts that you were banned for, generally most people would agree that they were objectionable. I’ve had posts of mine on the forums that were removed that were reasoned, polite, common sense and well sourced, but they didn’t contribute in a way that Blizzard felt was productive. But here’s the thing - I didn’t ever catch an account action for it. The posts were just 404’d.
If you personally are catching bans and account actions and genuinely can’t tell where the line is between a reasonable discussion and being offensive then you may be on the right track by saying that you shouldn’t say anything at all.
But you are playing on their servers, posting on their forums. And to do that, you agreed to follow a Code of Conduct and a Terms of Service that said that you would conduct yourself in a specific way while using their property.
If you don’t want to follow their rules, there’s a remedy for that. They can either keep slapping progressively longer bans on your account until you learn what behavior is and isn’t acceptable in their game and their forums, or you can see yourself to the door on your own. Those are the options.
It’s crazy because as a pre-vanilla player, I don’t recall there ever being a time when you could insult, swear at, toss slurs at and harass people in the game without risking catching an account action of some kind if you got reported. Just like it is now. But okay, yeah, at some point they changed their rules to disallow key passthrough software and that obviously means that there was a glorious heyday in the past where people were fine to toss around whatever language they pleased at anyone they pleased.
It’s entirely possible that people reported other people less “back in the old days” (since their actions against people always were reactive instead of proactive) even when they were up to some pretty offensive nonsense because the culture of gaming used to be “that’s just how it is and you just have to put up with it”, but the sooner that kind of outdated culture dies the better IMO.
Sorry that gaming got to be so omnipresent and widespread in modern life that it doesn’t serve as a “safe space” for undersocialized people to be grotty and terrible to each other anymore without consequence, maybe try retreating to even darker and more obscure corners of the internet if you can’t manage to spend your time in an online fantasy roleplaying game about dragons and Orcs subjecting people to behavior that you specifically agreed to not do when you signed up.
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I’d reckon it will be the exact same as it’s always been. Iirc, we’ve never been allowed to use profanity in the area/global chats and the only difference now is ontop of the player based reports for finding those that break CoC, you now have a company trying to completely rework their image and are probably gonna be less lax about it.
They already removed the smaller punishments on chat suspensions and you now start out at like a week or something compared to the earlier version.
Their stance on this has been the same since the very beginnning. Apparently just because there is a filter, doesn’t mean it’s alright to test it. It is simply there as a buffer to keep those that wish not to be surprised by it from seeing it. Even masked language or attempts to mispell the words are all violations and have always been.
Doesn’t matter if a person turns the filter off and still reports people using profanity, the person using the profanity is still in violation. Honestly havent found a single game where it’s alright to throw out any language you want as online interactions must be policed in mmo’s as it’s a private company and letting people say and do whatever they want would reflect poorly on said company. I’m kinda still shocked why these questions arise as it hasn’t been a new thing in over 2 decades.
As someone who was actioned many times when I was younger in vanilla, I can confirm it has never been alright. Same went for Anarachy Online, Ultima Online, EQ etc, etc.
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If it’s genuinely a mystery to you that you’re catching unwarranted actions after using an insulting phrase to describe a group of people, then maybe you should avoid getting involved in discussions in a venue that doesn’t want those insults on their forums. There are, no doubt, nearly infinite places out there where you can vent your opinions about who deserves to ‘win’ what into an supportive echo chamber where that kind of discussion is on-topic and relevant.
Generally, though, insulting people and then doing a criss-cross-no-take-backsies declaration that what you said wasn’t offensive so people aren’t allowed to consider it to be offensive doesn’t work very long past the Kindergarten stage.
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Did you just cover up a swear word? 
It’s almost like you were aware you’d get in trouble for it and acted accordingly. How hard was that? (Unfortunately, it’ll still get you a forum vacation if someone flags you for it. Good luck!)
And why are you calling me names, complete stranger I’ve never even talked to before? Did I “trigger” you by insulting the Cheeto-colored buffoon who was previously our president?
So, let’s just be clear, given that you’ve brought this up twice now: You WANT censorship, for no reason other than someone hurt your fee-fees. Well, you know what to do: Report me, abuse the system you claim will be abused, and prove the problem with its enforcement will be you. Simple.
No I didn’t cover up a swear word? But I do know that the woke are now in charge of Blizzard and it will cost them money in the long run.
I didn’t call you a name, I gave you a title. What pronouns do you use?
I am not triggered, I am just pointing out the pure hypocrisy.
I WANT same amount of censorship for both sides. Last I checked it was you that got your feeling hurt of a word that someone refused to use. That’s what YOU people do, just project and gaslight.
It’s pretty simple really. One group says we need more of xyz, another group says no we don’t want more of xyz. One group doesn’t get bans and the other group does. It honestly is kind of a mystery
You have to watch it, the Left get the twitter bots after Blizzard if they don’t silence all densest from the message.
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True. The whole “ministry of truth” nonsense now.
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Lmao! Dementia Joe! Lol!
Wait, dementia isnt funny. But Joe is.
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In this specific instance, it’s even more simple than that:
- You used an insult/slur about a specific group of people
- That can potentially catch you an account action
- Other people who don’t get account actions are either managing to not use slurs or offensive language or they’re not being reported
There’s not a mystery here, Scooby Doo.
I love the F word so very much sad face
I already disabled trade and general. I don’t wanna disable party chat but I might need to.
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“Doctors say I have dementia, I don’t remember asking.” - Joe Biden 2023 when they start throwing him under the bus.
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The person I was responding to in thread was bringing up real world politics and cultural shifts, so I responded in kind.
(Of course, that first person was also hyperventilating about potentially being banned for misgendering a NPC in the game.)
I don’t want or need support.
I’m not the one terrified of people reading the things I simply can’t stop my evil fingers from typing in chat.
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No ones terrified buddy. Thats not what any of this is about. But nice job completely missing the point, im sure Brian stelter is proud of you.
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I would assume you can use profanity that isn’t particularly offensive.
I can’t really give you examples here, but I think you know what I mean lol.
There’s a profanity filter in game so it would kind of be weird for them to seriously crack down on every single curse word, even words that aren’t labeled as hate speech/offensive/etc.
Oh, come on. Talk about gaslighting.
What’s it like to be scared of what you type in real time?
Again, you have brought me up at least twice, in at least two threads, days apart, and the other guy’s post wasn’t even yoinked the first time, just flagged.
Let it go, Elsa.
He was probably flagged because he declared anyone, here or otherwise, who used that word was grooming kids. He said this a couple of times, so there was no chance for his intentions to be misunderstood, and because he repeated it he gave others multiple chances to flag him.
And am I going to respond when somebody implies that I molest kids as a way to shut down a discussion? Yeah, I am.
Groups creating the same threads over and over and over about the same (non game related) topic is highly offensive and should be a permanent ban. Yet there’s no bans? I see people (myself included) getting bans for saying, no we don’t want this. That’s offensive.
Why, yes, person who hides his profile, players planning to stop communicating in-game at all or to run off to other means of communication because they’re scared of being actioned would indicate a stupid level of fear.
Unlike you guys who clearly all crib from the same notes, I don’t require pundits to tell me what to think or validate what I believe.
Its so sad you use the hidden profile argument as your retort. It sadly pathetic lol.
Fact of the matter is bub is no ones scared. They just dont feel the need to deal with trigger happy reporters false flagging because of some inane reasons.
If you truly didnt let media influence you then you wouldn’t use cnn talking points. But its whatever. You keep watching that garbage instead of thinking for yourself. No skin off my back.
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