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

[Manzo-argent-dawn (Manzo)]

My solution to trade chat is to leave it.

I prefer to report spammers, myself. Ignoring them all, even temporarily is a pro-active solution.

[Celessi-turalyon]

My solution to trade chat is to leave it.

So your solution is for me to not have the trade channel to reach out to other people to sell stuff? Still not addressing the real problem where it’s not about me having to read your messages, but about you making me unable to send messages.

No, it’s better to just get rid of the children who have to spam it.

[Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord]

A touch shortsighted, since it is both temporary, and unnecessary when everyone can temp ignore that person until actual Customer Service can assess the situation.

and RCR allows the same ignore while having the additional benefit of a squelch if enough people are annoyed. Once a GM reviews the squelched player’s actions they can decide to further silence the individual. How on earth do you consider that to be “short-sighted”?

The issue has become that right click reporting has been abused to silence critics or people that a group doesn’t like.

[citation needed]

Automation is a necessity, but auto-squelch after x amount of reports has been abused to silence people who don’t actually deserve to be muted.

[citation needed]

[Celessi-turalyon]

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

Obviously enough people that his post gets flagged and hidden within less than a minute.

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

Meh, I just tune out channels and only pay attention when I need them. I treat them as white noise. If I report, it’s for gold sellers or botters/exploiters.

[Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord]

Blizzard is more likely to believe that the mob was correct in reporting you, than actually read into the posts and find your message that broke their rules.

RCR puts all the relevant information in a nice package with a bow on it for the GM. They do not need to go searching for the infraction.

[Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord]

RCR is it being addressed. I personally wish we had had this back in the day, as it would have nipped the idiocy of clogging up public channels in the bud.

[Prufinnor-wyrmrest-accord]

It is me, I am the mod, posting on an alt trial account, because ~reasons~

[Fesz-cenarius]

Because you are circumventing a forum vacation in violation of the TOS, perhaps?

[Venusinfurs-daggerspine]

If you want to chat with only people who are like minded, use /g. /leave trade is a wonderful command I discovered years ago you antisocial bugger

[Stabystabs-zuljin]

People not educating themselves on what words are hurtful to a marginalized group of people is not a valid excuse for using said words.

Chuck Norris spam all you want. You call me anything slur that’s related to my sexuality, whether you know that about me or not, or whether it’s aimed directly at me or not, and you’re gone. Same goes for any slur against marginalized groups.

I will go out of my way to get people banned for making others feel less than because of slurs.

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

Obviously enough people that his post gets flagged and hidden within less than a minute.

Yeah. Almost instantly, really. Mid-day. In a thread with only a handful of active participants. You’re right, though. I’m sure there’s a horde of lurkers in a niche thread in a niche forum just chomping at the bit to report things in the middle of a work day.

[Starz-boulderfist]

Awesome, now we can’t do anything about the murloc or chuck norris spam since we’re apparently still 13 years olds living with our parents, like what we saw on the stress test

Yep you’re part of the problem… why is people joking a problem to you?

[Vaizel-aegwynn]

People not educating themselves on what words are hurtful to a marginalized group of people is not a valid excuse for using said words.

Chuck Norris spam all you want. You call me anything slur that’s related to my sexuality, whether you know that about me or not, or whether it’s aimed directly at me or not, and you’re gone. Same goes for any slur against marginalized groups.

I will go out of my way to get people banned for making others feel less than because of slurs.

Great, champ. You should. 100%. That’s not what we’re talking about though. By “we”, I’m talking about those of us who are against RCR.

[Manzo-argent-dawn (Manzo)]

and RCR allows the same ignore while having the additional benefit of a squelch if enough people are annoyed. Once a GM reviews the squelched player’s actions they can decide to further silence the individual. How on earth do you consider that to be “short-sighted”?

It’s short-sighted when it’s weaponized against people. This is a social game, and there are cliques and guilds who can and will use any tool to their disposal against their critics or people they don’t agree with.

What part of “potential for abuse” do you not understand about this? Do you not think that mob mentality is real? It occurs in-game frequently.

[Manzo-argent-dawn (Manzo)]

RCR puts all the relevant information in a nice package with a bow on it for the GM. They do not need to go searching for the infraction.

Nor did I say they need to go searching, but they are human and prone to not actually reading the information, even if it’s all in a nice pretty package for them.

GMs are human, they are tasked with reading through a lot of reports, less than in Vanilla, but still quite a lot. Do you really think they thoroughly read every packet of messages? Or do you think they are more prone to just agreeing with the mob and enforcing action?

[Alliana-frostmane (Alliana)]

It’s short-sighted when it’s weaponized against people.

Easily weaponized. Other thread seems to have disappeared, there was one discussing how to abuse this to silence guilds.

[Starz-boulderfist]

Yea good for you man. Virtue signaling a little bit? That’s not at all what we’re talking about when we are talking about abuse of right click reporting.

[Defac-aegwynn (Defac)]

Great, champ. You should. 100%. That’s not what we’re talking about though. By “we”, I’m talking about those of us who are against RCR

Just to be clear, there are absolutely 100% people who have explicitly stated to me in this thread and others that they don’t like RCR because the might not be able to say the n word as much as they want to, and point blank refused to say racism was bad.

So yeah, I understand that there are rational people who have concerns about the potential this system has for abuse and how it could potentially impact access to the game for innocent people. Those arguments are worth discussing.

But on that same side of that argument are people who absolutely just don’t want to be told they might experience consequences for being racist.

Rcr as a system is intended to limit disruptive communication and play. I’m okay with a system that lets the community immediately push out people who want to all caps spam the n word and other epithets in the barrens general chat. The system isn’t perfect, and maybe there’s room to make it better. But don’t pretend that some people don’t like it for any reason other than they want the be deplorable racists with no consequences.

[Sturmfaust-khazgoroth]

Standing in a shop and having a screaming match with your mate while people are trying to buy and sell things is fairly antisocial behavior is it not?
By the same token, if you don’t want to get reported, try not using Trade for non-trade purposes. I’ve linked a blue post earlier in this thread where Blizzard has stated that chat use that disrupts the ability of other players to use channels for their intended purposes can be reported and punished as spam.

Why can’t you use General, or guild, or party, or your own channel for these discussions?