And just to make you jealous, I met Jewel twice. She was born where I live and has a house there. I met her once in downtown Vancouver, and then again in White Rock at the beach near where she lives. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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Forum moderators do need to do something about this because non troll post from me to start community discussion are getting flagged.
There is zero penalty for abusing the automated report system.
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That’s awesome! ![:smiley:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
Goodness. This one got flagged too?
/facepalm
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Blizzard simply needs to ban the false reporters from the forums. I think false reporting is more offensive than a bad word or overly-heated responses.
Censoring opinions you disagree with is nasty and cowardly.
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They said they would in the last PSA thread about flagging not being downvotes ( they closed that one permanently for being mass flagged ironically ), but here we are again.
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And that would just loop back to the original problem of the ridiculously vague CoC. What warrants a false report?
sadly this was a known issue goign to happen before it launched.
it happens on the OW forums too.
they cant stop it as the system is automated ![:expressionless:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/expressionless.png?v=6" ":expressionless:")
Or Blizzard could just say screw people’s hurt feelings and bring back down votes. I mean what is the point in having “likes” but not “dislikes”…
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We can’t allow hurt feelings, its 2019, the current year! /s
Well, yes, I agree that the CoC is too vague. However, any CM with a shred of sense can tell that many of these reports have no basis whatsoever. It isn’t even a close call on some of them.
A vague CoC never stopped CMs from banning people before, lol. I got banned for using a term regularly used on television shows broadcast during family hour. Not a curse word, just a phrase. So CMs have traditionally gone a bit overboard to keep things civil. And flagging a post isn’t civil if it is not explicitly against the vague CoC.
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Assuming that every single forum mod won’t be influenced by personal bias. Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc. have repeatedly shown that mods are quite often not capable of this and in fact do selectively moderate based on things like political bias. No, not all of them. But enough to draw the attention of government bodies across the globe.
Doesn’t make it a good thing now tho.
Exactly. The power of discretion leaves a very wide margin of error.
Define civil in a non subjective way…
That is a subjective standard because the CoC itself is subjective. That is exactly the problem.
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I partly blame the wishy washy way the forums are moderated. If person A & B says something worthy of a mute, ban, etc. but doesn’t get in trouble yet person C says the same thing but does get in trouble it starts to create a resentful environment. I totally get why people will flag a post out of protest for how unevenly the moderation is here.
That and they never should have gotten rid of the ‘downvote’. It was a simple and easy way to say “I disagree” without getting into an argument and/or circumventing the rules.
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Ya, its pretty clear that these forums are an absolute train wreck. Fitting they coincide with BFA.
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Sensationalism at its finest.
He called the jerks who were doing jerk things on his Twitter a bad name. Were you on his Twitter being a jerk?
He certainly wasn’t “calling us all” a bad name.
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Correlation between the announcement and the timing of his post suggests otherwise, but hey, that’s “sensationalism” I guess.
The CoC are clear as mud on purpose. That purpose is to be able to justify banning and suspending people for ANY reason whatsoever.
A certain country who Blizzard is a huge fan of, recently started censoring men’s earrings on TV because…well because nothing. Just because they can. That’s how I see the Blizzard CoC.
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He said stuff people didn’t like so they went to his Twitter and unloaded on him. There’s the correlation with timing. How does that mean the whole community of WoW? He even described the trolls he was referring to, which separates them from the rest of us.
Lets not derail with a semantical debate about who he was and wasn’t referring to. It’ll just get the thread locked.
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Wuz decided to make the silly claim, I am just making sure the facts are in order.