Right Click Report - Not Going Away

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Not up on my Ion history, is there a connection there?

I just remember GS from EvE online being notorious for trolly shenanigans, similar in tone to intentionally mass reporting to silence people.

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Well, for one thing, it is fun, and there are plenty of people who enjoy it, and remember Trade Chat or Barrens Chat as one of the more memorable parts of the old game.

For another, Trade Chat is where the people are. So that is where the banter happens. Because it is something happening spontaneously. Same as how world PvP isn’t planned, for the most part. It just happens.

Banter in Trade is no different from a PvPer moving through Elwynn Forest ganking quest mobs for fun and then dodging other 60s who come to try and stop it. It is no different from kiting Doomlord Kazzak to Stormwind. It is no different from the Corrupted Blood Plague. It is no different from Tarren Mill and Southshore. It is no different from getting a bunch of people together to raid Stormwind for kicks.

Do those things cause inconveniences for people? Of course! No one could say otherwise. However, they are part of what made the game special. Having banter restricted to only ‘Altrageous-approved banter areas’ would be as chilling to the game as disabling PvP everywhere except battlegrounds.

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Elitist Jerks were a splitter from (what became) Goon Squad. They were goons, but elite goons.

Also interesting fact: Sean Smith (killed in the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi) was a goon. (Vilerat)

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:joy: That is just awesome.

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While Wayback keeps throwing an error, this part is taken from the source.

http://web.archive.org/web/20081218020335/http://us.blizzard.com:80/support/article.xml?articleId=20458

2008 is the earliest they saved a usable copy.

Out of Character (OOC) Discussion and Use of General Chat

Detailed below is the language policy enforced on the Role-Play servers. Use of the /ignore command is also highly encouraged.
  • The General Chat Channel should only be used for finding Storylines (SLs), finding Party Groups, and various other discussions pertaining to the Base Storyline (BSL), game-related topics, and continuity.
  • The General Chat Channel should NOT be used for any "Off-topic," Non-Storyline, or non game-related discussions.
  • Absolutely no out of character (OOC) or non-fantasy related dialogue should take place in the /Say, /Yell, or Party chat channels.
  • Guild Chat will not be policed for any fantasy related violations.
  • All normal harassment rules (which can be found at [defunct link]) still apply.
Examples of appropriate conversation in the General Chat Channel:
  • "Would anyone like to join a Rogue Specific SL?"
  • "What happened to the Well of Eternity?"
Examples of inappropriate conversation in the General Chat Channel:
  • "Did you see that new movie?"
  • "My sister just bought a new car."

RCR actually provides a far more effective way to curb OOC chat in Classic than GMs ever could.

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Great. I already said that’s fine.

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The specific information is relevant to the discussion for RCR, beyond your own response.

RCR will be a boon for the RP community to be able to silence people who are breaking the rules of an RP or RP-PVP realm in order to ensure that the chat is used for what it’s supposed to be used for.

While I don’t doubt that a few numbskulls will report people joking around, as long as its relatively in character and not offensive, there shouldn’t be any issues with most chat that doesn’t devolve into racial slurs, gender attacks etc.

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1203

That is shame. It wont aid in recreating the vanilla experience.

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“The vanilla experience” of keeping public channels closed because they were so polluted with garbage, rendering them useless for day to day game play communication? That “experience”?

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Wasn’t my experience. So…

:cactus:

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Right Click Report is complete garbage. I got a silence for making a group for Mythic+ that had “No Ragnaros, Quel’thalas, Azralon or Goldrinn” in the description.

It can be abused by anyone who gets salty about anything, whether it’s against the rules or not. Classic WoW is even worse because if you can’t talk you can’t coordinate to make groups.

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I suspect you are providing a fraction of what actually occurred.

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That’s the entire story of what occurred. The entire story. There was nothing else said or done or exchanged with anyone. I got the silence overturned. Nice try though

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how often did you spam it, what channel did you spam it in?

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I didn’t spam it. I made a LFG post that had that in the description lmao. One LFG post. It was written in no channels.

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/sarcasm on

But, what about all those people claiming that RCR will not be abused?

Surely, they can’t possibly be wrong and any evidence to the contrary must be fake and made up.

What about those claims that those who abuse the RCR will be harshly punished?

Surely Blizzard advised you that those who falsely reported had been noted, although they could not go into specifics regarding any action go taken against them.

/sarcasm off

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Understand that many would be skeptical of such a claim, given the frequency of supposed innocents being squelched results in a good debunking by CS.

What do you mean it was posted in no channels?

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I mean that it was posted in no channels. LFG isn’t a channel it’s a group finder tool. I made a group for Mythic + Underrrot that had in the description no players from those servers. That’s all that occured. There is nothing else to the story, sorry. Be skeptical all you want, that’s what happened.

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Yep and you can get reported for setting bad descriptions. It sounds like people didn’t particularly care for your bad description and reported you.

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How is that description a reportable offense?

:cactus:

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