Unfortunately I’m going to have to fill about 3 or 4 of these a day. And it may just blacklist the character and not the player.
Hopefully Blizz can see this is a massive problem and take some proactive steps against it…
I am debating moving servers now. “Report and move on” does little when a massive chunk of server cannot control themselves
People didn’t normalize this 8 years ago before i went on hiatus.
That’s why i don’t let my child play this game yet
One time, I was walking around in the horse costume with a friend during halloween. A group of vulpera came up to us, told us that we were a good horse and should wait back at the stables for master. I quickly logged out after that. I wish I was joking.
Explicit messages that are in public channels can be reported, yes.
It is a shame that these sort of persons get lumped in with the wholesome, respectful, real role players who just enjoy the people and places of WoW and the story or lore.
Yeah I knew this, I was just trying to remember if a layer of protection was still there or not
Partially. It doesn’t catch everything and people get creative. lol
I used to be very creative skirting this particular set of rules, I’m better now
When I was a moderator like two decades ago… I had to learn L33t Sp34k for all of this kind of stuff. 
I wish i could say that this was an occasional predatory creep just like irl can throw at you
But it’s not.
I will be filling out 3-4 reports a day at this rate until i blacklist dozens of people im sure.
Yes. What you’re describing violates the CoC and the TOS they agreed to when they started playing WoW and most ERP’ers have the common sense to not put the lewd stuff in chat and instead save it for a third party chatting app for this exact reason. Blizzard doesn’t generally regulate private conversations between people but if they’re putting it in /say and other public channels all bets are off.
Thank you!
Cool story. That doesn’t mean that online interactions are rated. Because they aren’t.
You can just get the badboy addon and filter words out you dont want. People use it for spam, you can use it for an advanced word filter too. This is like relying on the police to find your stuff instead of putting a lock on your door so robbers don’t walk in.
Turn on the language filter and use the addon to further reduce it if you need.
The thing is, most folks don’t report in-game, some of them even sink as low as the folks they try to “expose” or even lower and just end up causing server wide drama that ends up turning half a server into terrible people. Or worst case scenario they go as far as to violate actual IRL laws.
Keep in mind that Blizzard will ONLY action someone from a report if you don’t say or do anything BACK, however where most folks mess up is they want to lip off or get vindictive where a simple ignore and then /report is the only effective option.
If you own a forum, a feed, or a community and do not moderate, censor, or take action against distribution of pornographic materials, narratives etc to people, ESPECIALLY children…
You most certainly are liable.
The fact that SIX adults together in unison were finding a problem with me asking them not to talk about explicit in /say to point I had to file numerous reports and blacklist
And then later in the day, run into it again, is filthy.
And more needs to be done proactively against it, as apparently it was mentioned before by many people here.
I guarantee people would be a lot happier if their first instinct was to ignore the things they dislike rather than going “the thing I dislike needs to not exist,” at least when things are as minor as someone saying something on the internet.
Social media companies are not responsible for what their users post. So it’s kind of a grey area in general when it comes to moderation. It’s more of the company’s values more than a legal requirement.
See: Twitter. No guidelines, owned by an idiot. Bluesky, heavy moderation to keep the platform safe and enjoyable, not owned by an idiot.
im confused as to why you didnt just report it and move on and instead decided to come here and make a thread about it in gd as opposed to customer support forums that would better be able to handle this. and then proceed to spent the next hour or so protesting how much you despite it instead of…filing a ticket for it or something.
Oh they did. Moonguard server has/had a long LONG history of such notoriety. Plus advances in RP addons, usually meant to be innocuous and innocent, have grown since 8 years ago too.
Actions are done to the account, not the single character.
That’s an option you can take 100%.
However report and move on is the answer, anything else risks you catching actions that the initial offender should have caught. Do not engage, report and move on. The reports DO get investigated.