I don’t even get into the conversation.
I see someone talking politics(does not matter which side, as I am an equal-opportunity reporter), it’s a RCR. (which, btw, also hides them from my chat box without taking up a slot on my ignore list.)
I think the whole point A lot of people are missing is because they are replying with how they feel, instead of the actual terms of service. If it’s a TOS violation then by all means report. But if you want to report because somebody is annoying you or it’s somebody you don’t agree with or it’s something that you don’t agree with that they said, then you should be punished for trying to censor them. If it’s not against terms of service Let it Fly, but if it is against terms of service then it does warrant an infraction.
It’s not against the TOS, but 99% of the political comments you see are more of personal attacks than talking about politics.
Go to literally any forum, and just look up why people support trump, or support bernie, and look at how extremely common it is to talking about “the libtards” or the racists on the right.
Very few people seem to be able to talk about politics and keep it as an adult conversation. It almost always turns into personal attacks, and odds are, that’s why someone is mentioning Trump in trade channel, to get that negative reaction from his opposition, by definition, trolling.
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Which I find quite funny to be honest, but you don’t report the person who didn’t commit to terms of service violation. You report the people who commit the terms of service violation replying to that person or other persons. Unless it is obvious that he’s trolling, you really don’t want to start censoring people you don’t agree with.
It’s about the intention. There’s a clear difference between saying why you think trump is doing a good job, and yelling TRUMP 2020 BUILD THE WALL
That’s why I put in the qualifier unless you know it’s obvious trolling. That I can agree with, and do agree with.
Except it won’t. This is a trial account. And linking Thunderfury IS spam. But everyone can choose who they do and do not report.
Punish abuse and you deter abuse.
No person has ever stated that BG abuse of it was acceptable or encouraged. Sliding it in your short list as if it is, is the strawman.
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Not enforceable. Too much work for an already stretched GM team. Reporting needs to have a reasonable deterrent to prevent frivolous things being reported.
I’m glad we have Griefer here with his expert knowledge of Blizzard’s CS capabilities.
So you agree then that you should punish all the people abusing the right click reporting? Then I’m not sure on why you intend to argue with me if you agree with me. And sliding it in my shortlist? You mean using it as an example as to why we shouldn’t have it in the first place? If using examples is a strawman, then any examples that any person gives ever are strawman arguments. Again, your logic is flawed.
Should’ve been obvious, but you’re welcome.
First of all, “trolling and harassment” are highly subjective and nebulous topics, so enforcing rules that punish players “abusing” RCR is almost impossible except in the very most obvious cases.
Second, it doesn’t even need to be a concerted effort (IE, “abuse”). If you say something controversial (“I like retail WoW better than Classic” or something as innocuous-yet-contextually-inflammatory like that) in general chat in a reasonably populated area like the Barrens, there’s a very good chance that a bunch of random people will respond by reporting you and you’ll get squelched. That’ll make it impossible to ask for help, get groups, etc. until a GM reviews it. Sure, they obviously won’t impose a penalty on you-- you didn’t break any rules, after all. But you still would’ve been squelched for the last [hours, days, whatever] until a GM reviewed your case. That’s tantamount to a punishment in and of itself.
Simply unacceptable in a game like Classic.
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I hope abuse does get swift action. But I have yet to see a shred of evidence that blizzard has taken action against abusers of RCR.
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And report those using trade for the buying and selling of goods and/or services if they post more than once every 5 minutes as “SPAMMING”.
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I have long suspected that higher tiers of “trust” have reports that carry more weight.
Right-click report = Good. Temp ignore when you’re trying to filter out 500 level 1 gnomes who are all spamming at the same.
Auto-squelch = Bad. This is not okay. Getting someone muted helps no one and opens the feature up to abuse.
I’d wager that RCR is out of the beta because no one on the CSR team really needs to be monitoring the Beta for behavior
Or you need to leave your personal attacks off the forums.
But to answer your question, it clearly takes too many, because too many other people are still running rampant with no negative effects of their comments.
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It actually helps each and every person in chat channels communicate more effectively.
What they’re not grasping is that while they’re spamming the chat channels, it’s not so much that they’re forcing someone to read their comments, but it makes people unable to utilize the chat. Yeah, I can ignore someone that’s spamming chuck norris, but everyone who didn’t type /ignore will miss whatever I type into that chat channel.
So it’s not that I have to read chuck norris facts, it’s that my LFM UBRS message is immediately scrolled off of everyone else’s chat window. This spam literally shuts down every chat channel.
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