Right Click Reporting is out of the beta. No official word yet

[Cormith-wyrmrest-accord]

Yeah, it’s still dependent on the players, who make the reports.

No. No player has the capacity to squelch another player. The squelch is set the number of reports surpassing a threshold and Blizzard’s system identifying a potential problem.

No player makes the decision to apply a squelch. Blizzard does.

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

Wut?

The squelch is set the number of reports surpassing a threshold and Blizzard’s system identifying a potential problem.

Who makes the reports?

Players make the reports…which means they made a decision to report someone, and if enough are made, the squelch is applied. So yes, players have the ability to force a squelch on someone.

A “Silence” is applied by a GM when they investigate the reports. Those are a bit more harsh than a squelch.

[Fesz-cenarius]

Yeah, it’s still dependent on the players, who make the reports.

No. No player has the capacity to squelch another player. The squelch is set the number of reports surpassing a threshold and Blizzard’s system identifying a potential problem.

No player makes the decision to apply a squelch. Blizzard does.

No individual player can squelch another solely by themselves. That does preclude the possibility/probability of Johnny and his cronies colluding to squelch that player, however.

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

It’s a little suspicious how you can troll as much as you do (or, at the very least, be as inflammatory as you are) with no repercussions. It’s also a little suspicious how quickly a disproportionate number of people responding to you in kind get buried/banned. A coincidence, I’m sure. Just interesting.

Anyway, I think it’d be an interesting experiment for you to go into Barrens general chat saying the things that you say with the attitude that you have. I’m betting you’d get auto-squelched within a half hour.

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

That 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time that anyone reaches that point, it was because of something that they did to cause that many people to feel the need to report them.

Which region of your behind did that number come from?

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

Who makes the reports?

Players make the reports…which means they made a decision to report someone, and if enough are made, the squelch is applied. So yes, players have the ability to force a squelch on someone.

A “Silence” is applied by a GM when they investigate the reports. Those are a bit more harsh than a squelch.

All correct. Silences are punitive in nature, can only be applied by a GM, start at 24 hours and double in duration for each successive silence levied against the offending account.

A squelch is, according to Blizzard, a measure implemented to “keep situations from escalating.” They’re functionally the same as a silence, but “only” last until a GM can review the reports made against you. I say “only” because there is theoretically no limit to how long it could take a GM to get to your case.

Classic is a different beast from retail. It needs to be treated accordingly. Auto-squelching is unacceptable in a game like this.

[Danimals-eonar]

And that’s exactly what we are getting… they have removed click to report.

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

That is still under debate.

[Danimals-eonar]

I thought that based on the latest beta build and as the OP suggests, it has been removed? I’m not in the beta to confirm.

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

All reporting functions are disabled, on the beta and on the PTRs. Which is normal SOP according to Bluespacecow. The ONLY way to be sure is to wait til launch on the 27th of August.

[Celessi-turalyon]

It’s a little suspicious how you can troll as much as you do (or, at the very least, be as inflammatory as you are) with no repercussions. It’s also a little suspicious how quickly a disproportionate number of people responding to you in kind get buried/banned. A coincidence, I’m sure. Just interesting.

Anyway, I think it’d be an interesting experiment for you to go into Barrens general chat saying the things that you say with the attitude that you have. I’m betting you’d get auto-squelched within a half hour.

Not agreeing with him doesn’t make him trolling.

Also, don’t overlook how many people are willing to flag people for making the personal attacks that the other guy’s been making.

[Studmuffyn-veknilash (Studmuffyn)]

it was never active in Beta, is never connected in any Beta, most likely this is just another case of some people running away with a narrative that gets picked up and repeated without actually any real truth to it.

[Barkamus-elune (Barkamus)]

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[Vaizel-aegwynn]

No player has the capacity to take those sorts of actions against another player.

Categorically false. A guild could, in theory, have all of their members report me at once for some clandestine reason and I would be squelched immediately. Since squelches are functionally identical to a silence, it’s an immense penalty being leveraged not by a GM, but by players themselves.

Now, sure, they may or may not get banned for doing this. But what does that matter to me? I would’ve spent the last several hours/days squelched for no reason other than because some players had the capacity to make it happen.

[Celessi-turalyon]

No player has the capacity to take those sorts of actions against another player.

Categorically false. A guild could, in theory, have all of their members report me at once for some clandestine reason and I would be squelched immediately. Since squelches are functionally identical to a silence, it’s an immense penalty being leveraged not by a GM, but by players themselves.

Now, sure, they may or may not get banned for doing this. But what does that matter to me? I would’ve spent the last several hours/days squelched for no reason other than because some players had the capacity to make it happen.

But the key point that’s being left out: What did you do to cause an entire guild to want to report you? They’re not out there targeting random people. And most people aren’t going to risk the punishments that come when a GM looks into that.

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

Not agreeing with him doesn’t make him trolling.

Never said it did. Him trolling (or otherwise just being inflammatory) makes him a troll.

Also, don’t overlook how many people are willing to flag people for making the personal attacks that the other guy’s been making.

I’m not privy to that information. Are you?

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

@Vaizel-aegwynn

Since squelches are functionally identical to a silence

Not really. A squelch just shuts down your chat channels temporarily, silence does a lot more.

New Silence Penalty Coming to World of Warcraft - WoW

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

But the key point that’s being left out: What did you do to cause an entire guild to want to report you?

What does it matter if I’m not breaking the ToU?

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

Not really. A squelch just shuts down your chat channels temporarily, silence does a lot more.

“Just”

Fair enough though.

[Bricklethumb-anvilmar]

My solution to trade chat is to leave it.