So that is your measuring stick of being an adult? LOL Let’s see. You have 685 likes, and I have 1.2K As if it matters…
This is not about Blizzard policing chat. This is about giving logical community members a tool to keep gold sellers and those who purposefully want to disrupt things a way to feel like they are not completely helpless.
It’s also a way for Blizzard to have a system in place seeing that they lost a good chunk of their CM staff.
All you are bringing to the conversation is anger and vile… I don’t know why you are so threatened by the system.
Spoken like someone that’s never been part of a group of people targeted for harassment, spit on, hated, forced to remain unmarried, had words weaponized against them, bullied, tortured, abused and murdered…just for existing.
But please tell me more how people like me need to get a thicker skin. I survived Jr high, High School, college and the real world as a gay. I got my right to marry who I choose 4 years ago. Far from ancient history. And I’m white, so I had it easier than many.
Remind me how I got through all that without offing myself, without a thick skin? Because sweetie, I had to have the thickest skin just to survive.
Now, please, tell me how important it is to you that when you’re playing a video game other people can call me a f–got.
This “gamers just wanna say bad words” meme is getting real stale. The argument is that RCR can be easily abused; most people aren’t arguing for anything you suggest.
As I recall, that incident eventually was proven that the player deserved it and was disconnected as a result of a real punishment for real horrible things they said, and it was not due to false reports.
I may be remembering a different incident, but frankly, that’s what’s happened every single time that I’m aware of, I think it’s reasonable to guess that that’s what happened here.
No, that does not count. You claim we skim over it when the burden of proof is on you and one isolated report is not sufficient considering the volume of players that play the game.
There is not SUFFICIENT data, or reliable reports, to support your fear.
No one wants to live there. But common sense is desperately needed.
This is an absurd post, and you know it. Do you really think people are advocating for being able to use racial slurs? It’s simply that the process in Vanilla was better than what exists now…which is mob rule. Get enough people to report and you can silence someone for anything. As long as there’s an ignore function…that’s what I do. Ignore and move on with my life. I don’t subscribe to this current day notion where if someone says something you don’t like they must be silenced into oblivion. That’s a very immature and childish attitude.
I’m not even against right click report. It’s just the auto-squelch. Get rid of that and I’m fine. At least then it takes a Blizzard employee to deploy punishment. What I see from people supporting the auto-squelch just want to control and censor everything. It’s the type of people who get offended when someone says Merry Christmas. It’s actually scary how prevalent it’s becoming in our society. We need to grow up and accept people think and believe different things and that’s OKAY. That’s good, in fact. Diversity is a good thing. And if you can’t handle what someone is saying…/ignore and move on. It really is that simple.
Pretty much every group in the history of the planet has had bad things happen to them. Even the oh so privileged white folks have been subjugated, forced into slavery and murdered on an industrial scale.
As far as being gay is concerned. Yes you got what you were fighting for. But don’t start pushing authoritarian crap and start telling other people what they can and can’t say, nor, perhaps more importantly, what other people have the right to read or not read. You’ll end up pushing people too far and you’ll get backlash. Nobody wants that. Believe me.
The argument is simple. If someone calls YOU a bad name, then YOU ignore them. Your skin can’t be as thick as you say if you require their punishment on top of that.
I’ll say it again. Expanding the size of ignore lists considerably is better than using RCR. In both instances you don’t have to read what they say anymore. There’s only one instance that removes other people’s right to listen. You choose to remove other people’s right to listen with RCR. Now unless you feel deep down that you would like somebody other than yourself to decide who YOU are allowed to listen to, then you can’t possibly make the argument that you are fine with YOU deciding what another person is allowed to listen to.
Yes. I have literally seen people advocating that.
If you can’t keep your mouth shut, then accept your punishment. There is ZERO reliable evidence that false reports cause a problem. Your problem is that you think it’s ok for people to say horrible things, and that they shouldn’t be punished for it.
It’s not ****ing ok to say some things. Don’t say them. If you do say them, accept the consequences.
I can read perfectly fine. All I presented was an example when the reality was this was a scourge of RBG’s during 8.0. If the community can’t handle groups of 20 interacting, wait till they get 2.5k people routinely interacting daily.
You are NOT reading. You launched right to claiming my statement was kin to putting my fingers in my ears while I am telling you how statistics work,
You are trying to drum up fear based on no evidence.
Even in your second part of your reply, you are using speculation and fear-mongering that the community cant handles it. . Handle what?
You have NOT proven adequate evidence beside hearsay that this is actually a problem.
You make some BIG assumptions that everyone is out to get you or others. But the evidence does not support that. Now if you can show the evidence that is a different story. . Its not about the right or wrong of free speech, its about using lacking data and fear to drive a point while ignoring any good a system offers to players as a whole and the company.
More simple to leave rcr as it is, an effective tool, despite the fear mongering by a handful of people, most of whom display a temperament on the forum that would likely make them the squelched few. No respect for others trying to legitimately communicate in game like civilized humans.
It’s not drumming up fear when it’s actually happened. Just because you say it hasn’t doesn’t mean that’s the truth. Do you honestly think everyone who’s been squelched deserved it? Do you honestly think everyone who’s been disconnected by RCR deserved it?
I don’t think there’s some “boogieman” out to get me. I don’t think I’ll ever see enough reports to even get the consequences. I’m worried about a tool that can easily be abused by people in game, and a community that is stuck in realms instead of sharded-“communities” (if you can even call it that).
So, might have to do better than an example of people abusing an in-game system, where BG’s matter more, especially in the rank 10-14 range?