I was once banned on the US forums for being a foreigner. If you want to not be harassed, I’d recommend rerolling on EU.
Dont link some mvp post that barely defines what they are. Theres so many loopholes there. Ha
I’d love to link the Blue posts explaining but they’re in the nether with the old forums. Most of the links I had saved to explain this aren’t archived on the web, unfortunately.
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I am willing to believe the system does work in the way you describe.
But it is still completely unacceptable to have your chat privileges temporarily revoked at any time for any reason or no-reason at all by a group of players that is large enough.
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Well, that’s just a difference in opinion. At least you were able to change your mind on how the systems work. Again, the automatic chat mute has been in game for 13 years and you’re just now protesting it. Think about that for a good moment.
Here’s something I do have archived from 2007:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070528080211/http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/squelch.html
Finally, once a number of reports for an individual account have been sent to us, that account will be temporarily prevented from broadcasting any further text to anyone. The duration of this “squelch” is long enough for the game master team to investigate and take more severe action against the account if necessary.
Silence penalty announcement:
You’re assuming that I am just “now” complaining about it and have not been against it for a decade.
I simply cannot understand how anyone could be in favor of a system that puts the privileges of another person’s account into the hands of any sufficiently large group. That is just begging for abuse…and it is happening. There is no level punishment that came from a maliciously false source that is low enough to be deemed “acceptable.”
It doesn’t save a GM any time either since they’re reviewing every report anyways.
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I think that anyone abusing the system should be penalized. If you only penalized the person starting the offense, players would simply discuss in discord who they want squelched, then do it without any word of it in game.
If you’re being complicit in an act that’s detrimental to other players, and exploiting systems to your personal benefit, you should be penalized.
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welcome to our day and age!
They’ve implemented mass report = ban on all their games, and on each game it’s been abused.
On Overwatch, their moderation staff refuses to actually investigate these reports and just keeps the action as is. Warcraft’s customer service representatives have always been great to deal with, I hope they’re not going the route of Overwatch.
Yet you whine about spell batching. And even in a topic that has NOTHING to do with it, you like to point fingers at the #NoChanges crowd as if Blizzard somehow only and ever catered to their every whim.
Case in point. 
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Yes, because the useless “No-changers” called for a system that affects every single player in the game in a massively negative fashion.
The right-click report system affects an extremely small number of players in a negative fashion. I don’t expect someone who can’t even play a Hunter properly to have much critical thinking capability.
So you managed to say something twice that made an entire guild report you?
Perhaps you shouldn’t do that and you wouldn’t have that problem.
You missed the part where the GMs reviewed the report and it was found to explicitly be abuse of the system.
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Not trying to justify what they are doing to you, but you didn’t leave quietly, did you? And if you haven’t put these idiots on ignore, and still respond to them, you’re not doing all you can to break ties with that guild.
There’s more to this story, unless this was a guild of teenage fools with no upbringing. What really happened?
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Unless he is spamming, there is nothing he could do that would justify being mass reported for spamming. He could have burned every single bridge to a cinder, and it still would not be justification for automated systems abuse.
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Irrelevant. Guilds shouldn’t have the authority to do things like this. Reporting is for people who are spamming or violating the TOS, not for people who make guilds angry.
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There is no such thing.
The first sentence of my post…
We also know raid teams use voice coms, which is where I’m betting the sexiest and racist insults were thrown, as well as the OP and friends response.
However, I raid in Retail with a guild that lets you know going in, the conversations get pretty off color. Did the OP agree to a similar pact and not know how far it will go?
Blizzard has no access to these interactions. They only saw the results of what went down in voice coms. And it makes the OP look like an innocent victim.
I’ve been around humans a while, there’s more to this story.
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Right-Click Reporting doesn’t automatically ban anyone. All bans are manually implemented, by Blizz themselves. So, if you were truly banned, you must’ve done something horribly wrong. Especially since bans are hardly given out. Even if it was a suspension, suspensions are not automated.
The only thing that is automated and dictated by the player base, is the ability to refrain someone from engaging in public chat channels which is still not a ban nor a suspension.
I think he is using the term “ban” loosely. You can tell by what he wrote that he got squelched. He then goes on to describe how both times the squelch was over-turned and deemed to be wrongfully applied to his account.
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