Well it does matter and of course you are going to think I made it up. And of course Blizzard are never going to tell us how it exactly works. I can only work on what information I can find by googling it and reading the forums here, not my fault you don’t believe me.
Except I do this all the time, I sit in the main base or close to an area where there are rares I want while watching general chat and, you know, having a chat with people.
No one seems to be asking you either to try and stop the addons now are they? And there are 2 total likes across all your posts here, what is your point?
Whether I use these addons or not, whether I have been silenced or not, or even if people posting about rares are even using addons, I can see the benefit of these messages for some people and find it extremely stupid that people are getting banned for doing the whole community thing and trying to assist other people.
Even if we are going to agree as a community to start policing these announcements how are we going to go about that? Let’s say Arachnoid spawned in the alternate timeline, do I make one announcement and that is it, leave it at that? Or since there are like 3 people in the area at any given time do I make further calls to allow those to make the item needed and make their way over? What about someone who just zoned in after the announcement was made, is it fair that they don’t get to be advised that there is a rare up that drops a mount and the chance to go over and kill it?