I can’t seem to whisper peoples battlenet accounts that are BNet friends, why is this? oh and can anyone tell me exactly “why” I was silenced? as abusive chat isnt descriptive. as far as I know I was silenced for pointing out that atheism has a higher kill count than religion (which is true and statistically verifiable) so I am thinking don’t talk about the truth? not too sure what I did wrong. I know I have used profanity but that is allowed afaik as the chat filter option exists and I have never tried to go around the chat filter.
so yeah afaik silence is supposed to affect public channels only, I can’t whisper my IRL friend thru your service, I have to use discord.
The profanity filter is not an invitation to use it. It’s as a failsafe if anything else. When you agree to the ToS, you agree to act with some sense of decency and decorum. You participated in topics that should not be brought into WoW. Your forum mates decided it was offensive and didn’t belong, so you have been sanctioned after enough people reported you and a GM decided you broke the rules.
A big thing to remember is that it could have been from last week, it could have been something from a month ago. There is no definitive way of knowing it.
That said, there are no GMs here who can do anything for you. If you believe the ruling to be in error, use the appeal link listed above. This particular forum is a player helping player forum, not a place to discuss, debate and try to get a punishment overturned.
A silence will affect all chat, in game and across the blizzard chat services.
During the appeal, it should point out the details of what caused this.
The filters are for users to block certain foul language, but not everything that is inappropriate to the game chat is blocked, especially if someone is using purposely misspelled words, or try to mask the words with symbols. As pointed out also, politics and religion are often points of contention, and better left out of the game.
It’s a punishment. The idea is it’s bad enough that it will stifle any urge to keep repeating unsavory behavior. And just for safety’s sake, be aware that from here on your punishments will double. One day will become two. Two will become four. So far as we know there really isn’t a limit to how long you can be silenced or suspended, so please keep that in mind next time you want to start nattering on about this or anything similar in the future.
Just so you know, talking about religion or non-religion in game is quite a taboo subject. It is guaranteed to rile people up on all sides. Same goes for politics.
Just submit an appeal and keep your opinions on the subject to yourself.
You got silenced because your chat was reported, a GM reviewed it, and decided it was worthy of a silence. Discriminatory talks towards the beliefs of others and profanity seem to be front and centre to your account, and in my experience, people here tend to heavily gentrify their behaviour. I think you know exactly why you were silenced, and the penalty is indeed working correctly.
You can submit an appeal to try and get it overturned, which means you’ll get a second opinion from a different person on the support team. But since you’ve admitted to rule breaking, I don’t think that’ll happen.
Remember that the penalty doubles every time, so hopefully you’ll learn your lesson sooner rather than later.
no I do not tbh. people were making fun of religion in chat, and I pointed out that contrary to their beliefs, that atheism is responsible for more deaths.
I understand if profanity that is commonly used in wow is against ToS and I guess I will start reporting every single instance of it in chat.
Please do! I know I like to try and help keep my public chat channels on the servers I play on clean and do my part to report spam and any language I feel crosses the line. I may not report every single swear word I see, but when folks take it too far, you can be sure that I’m right-click-reporting.
The chat filter can make it easier to report chat as generally any chat that is filtered is against the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct also covers using those symbols outright, as well as misspellings and abbreviations.