Posts getting taken down don’t automatically equal a suspension from the forums.
And yeah, forum blocks are not account-wide. You’ll have to block every alt of the offender on every forum character of yours.
Suspensions are account-wide, but people get away with ban evasion constantly.
Maybe they will change that sometime. That raises the question that if someone ignores someone on the forum and the ignored person switching to an alt to have their posts seen, is that considered bypassing an ignore or block evading?
And I am kinda surprised that the thread that was taken down wasn’t enough to get a temp ban from the forums.
Honestly, they really need to before dropping another beta/alpha for wow at least.
People making light of mental illness in any form always draws my ire and tells me exactly what kind of person’s behind the screen.
People turning their noses up at accessibility feedback and derailing such topics with stuff like “you’re just asking for the game to be easier because you’re bad” etc, is just disgusting. Beta/alpha forums were General Discussion 2 with the way comments like that were lingering. And then to still have alpha/beta access on top of that? Unacceptable.
They should also make it so that blocking someone automatically mutes threads they make, on all characters.
as a side note, they also should expand the in-game ignore list cap. it’s only 50 people which is not enough.
This is nuts. If a person does something that warrants a suspension or whatever, they should not be able to jump ship to another account to bypass that. That defeats the whole purpose?
It’s hard to enforce though. If you got suspended, but you live at home - how do they know for sure that one of your family members’ accounts isn’t a false account you created to use as a backup if they just go by ISP or any of that? If you’ve got five different accounts under the same name, that’s one thing obviously, but it’s hard to prove otherwise, even if there is different billing information.
I agree, that I wish there was a way to be able to make sure that all accounts belonging to that person should be sanctioned in tandem, but realistically it’d be hard to enforce.
I’m not a tech guru but I find it difficult to believe they can’t enforce a full ban on someone. You’re probably right but if that’s the case it’s just another thing Blizz needs to be more proactive about.
On the tech side, you’d probably have to be a repeat offender/cheater to get a blanket ip ban. I know that’s not a great option but it’s probably for the better that they give that kind of second chance for people that aren’t doing that under the same ip.
And the truth of it is that its a lot more common these days for people that unhinged and making this their “life’s work” to use ways to get around ip bans. I know blizz doesn’t necessarily forbid some of those ways, but it’s one of the reasons why online abuse in other communities gets incredibly out of hand. coughtwitchcough
You can hardware ban individuals as well as using geolocation (“geo IP”) to circumvent techniques you folks are discussing. They have done this in the past and continue to do so. Unfortunately you have to have some serious offenses for this to be enforced. The RMT (real money trading) boosters were smacked with this. This is very very hard to get around if you don’t know what you’re doing. NordVPN won’t save you either.
All PC parts are stamped by their manufacturer and identified in machine code in the bare metal. If you’ve heard the term MAC Address then you know what this is.
Companies also work with ISPs to identify bad actors for a variety of reasons. Like many of you, I am not smart enough to read through the legalese in their TOS. It is not out of the question to assume that if you do something bad enough to be banned multiple times, your ISP could be notified and additional parameters can be set in place to prevent inbound/outbound communications.
Source: 92% through an undergraduate cybersec program.
I will say that outside of the first paragraph, this is assumption. I have no idea how the ban process works nor what flags they use to mark accounts. Their whataboutism defense of what “is and isn’t RP” is lame, and just another example of the anti-consumer business practices by Blizzard.
Late reply, but keep opening tickets. Until a GM actually reads your message nothing will be done. I used to deal with harassers this way for a long time, it may take many tickets before you get actual results. But when people are harassing you to the point that you don’t want to log in or stop playing, they should care.
Unfortunately in today’s world this is actually pretty hard to do against someone who knows what they’re doing and how to avoid it.
And that’s even if they go through with any action which let’s face it blizzard is lacking in that department.