I’d like to request the development team looks into a new program for wow to help clean it up, named project warden. The idea behind this is that blizzard would eventually promote people in their games, like the mvp’s on the forums, that are trusted. These individuals would be volunteers who have a deep passion for keeping wow clear of problems, cheaters/hacks, and advertisement spam.
With some modifications to the current report system we could empower these individuals with a new “flaging” options (right click > report > report type) that is “stronger” then a normal automated complaint.
These reports, or stronger versions the players can then enact a set of special abilities that are admin related.
For example,
A warden could report cheaters in the battlegrounds and have them removed instantly from the battleground. This would not remove them from the game, but from the bg itself applying the natural deserter buffs.
Player A is a warden, and Player b is a cheater. if playerA see’s playerb flying across the battlegrounds the result is a report being launched by playerA effectively removing playerB from the battleground instantly.
Situation # 2,
playerA is again a warden and see’s advertisement in lfg for RMT (real money transactions). playerA can flag that person instantly, removing their access from posting in groups for 24,48, 72 hours. If a report is launched a third time after a third offense the player will be silenced for a prolonged period (days, or weeks).
Reward System
The wow forums have “trust” levels. A similar mechanic would be ideal for the warden project. In addition to this individuals who are wardens will obtain a free subscription to wow (a similar benefit to blizzard employee’s), a free xfer, character change, or race and or faction change a month. This will be blizzards way of thanking the individuals in question.
While I’m all for making it easier to report cheaters.
I don’t feel giving players any type of real powers would make sense.
Giving rewards could be a thing, but I feel it could create weird gameplay. Basicly making people camp places that bots go just to report them xd
No thank you. For a single player to have a unilateral ability to “instantly remove” anyone from an activity is downright ridiculous. The potential for abuse is extreme.
Also, this is another completely ridiculous concept. If this “warden” is providing a Blizzard service and Blizzard is giving them compensation in return, you have a pseudo-contract with consideration and mutual assent. This is a huge can of worms that their legal team would balk at immediately.
You only advocate that because your one of the cheaters, and dont want to be punished for your exploitation of the game.
I don’t agree, and this is for them to work out. These are forums for the devs/community to talk about, it is ultimately blizzards choice to take the idea and put it in effect, they dont need your approval to do that, and to be honest cheaters like you using upi’s bot should not be able to have say in matters like this to start with.
WOOOOOAH…
Heavenly mother of assumptions right there…
As someone who has never gotten a single ban in their over a decade playing this game, I’ll think you’ll find i’m not a cheater.
It doesn’t take a cheater to disagree with your hair-brained enforcement scheme.
Given the level of assumptions and seeming immaturity I’m seeing right now from your replies, this already tells me why your idea is horrible. You could of articulated it a lot better and ignored the individual, but instead you went right in to call him a cheater.
You got proof? Burden of Proof is on you since you made the accusation.
All I see is a power hungry individual who seems to want control over others. People like that in control of someone else’s play time? Yeah no. Because the next thing you’d do is rage ban someone when they disagree.
This is a bad idea and you should feel bad just for suggesting it.
A better idea would be a finding “MVP” style candidates in game, strictly volunteer, and having their reports jump to the head of the queue for immediate review by Blizzard mods.
Not even that. On my server we had a Wiki and a Mod. He claimed to be a decent enough person, put himself up as a great roleplayer, real go-getter, nice guy etc. etc.
Yet the moment he got a mod slot he immediately started deleting every character wiki page that did not measure up in his eyes, and it was obvious he was targeting the people who he disliked or who saw him for what he really was.
Glad to hear you have proof. Unfortunately you already breached the core of Blizzard’s policy, which is that you never discuss moderation actions or single out another player. Even if Nate is Cheater McCheaterson, you aren’t allowed to do that. Because of that I have to maintain the same opinions I had at the start.
That it is a terrible idea prone to abuse and massive corruption.
At this level of mvp, support staff etc, there is a level of trust being granted to the individual. Abusing that trust often results in permabans from the game by many companies. Its not just here that this place would have such systems many other games have them, and some times if not often even with admin /bannable privs on the account.
I am not advocating for that level of control over other players, i am advocating that if someone is in a bg and is cheating those trusted players have the ability to remove them from that specific battleground. it’s simple.
Who talked about what a mod did or did not do? grasping at straws here.
If i had power over this game on that level i’d instantly remove ever 2200+ rbg player from the game, and then implement a UID system to make sure they never get back in it (with new accounts, ips etc) to the best of our ability.