Hey all, I had a question that my kid asked me today that I was kinda perplexed by. Xhe’s been playing WoW since xhe was a child, and that new ‘Social Contract’ pops up so xhe was reading through that contract and asked me:
“Mom can I start using my pronouns in-game now?”
Which broke my heart because xhe’s had a bad experience in the past of explaining to folks xer preferred pronouns and them reporting xer and trying to harass xer.
I told xer that the Social Contract should be able to cover it, but when xhe read through the whole thing and wasn’t able to find anything xhe was fairly confused and I was confused as well which brings me to the point of this post:
Are preferred pronouns covered within the Social Contract to where xhe won’t get banned for explaining it to folks in-game or using it in-game?
The SC basically says be friendly to people and have decency. No, it has nothing to do with pronouns or anything of this kind. Just don’t be toxic and insult people, keep negative thoughts in head, etc.
If you child puts them on ignore they cannot whisper to harass. By reporting them the system can squelch or even temp ban them for their actions. Unfortunately there is no guaranteed way to fully prevent stupid behavior from ignorant idiots.
Press X to doubt. I’ve seen your threads about this…you can’t stop posting about this, very easy to tell your attempting troll threads subtly within the rules. No one goes following other players around and insulting them, people have better things to do in their time then follow a player around randomly. The only reason this would be even real, if this even is, is that your child is going around saying “Call me [pronou]” at which point, your inviting people to bully you and should stop.
I don’t think it’s ever been bannable to use or explain your pronouns in-game. But for me, it’s never come up - people just call the characters by their class, or their name if they’re lucky.
I usually get “hey hunt,” “hunter,” or occassionally “idiot hunter”
It’s nothing to do with empathizing, if this is truly real, the solution is obvious…stop putting a target on your back and don’t say anything ingame. No one cares. Like Jace Hall’s song lyric - “And while people like to discriminate, hate, and be mean, in my world we fight together to beat the Lich King. Doesn’t matter if your black, white, ugly, or fat”. But I don’t believe you have such a child who’s doing all of this…your just posting to troll or for attention.
And the answer I’d give is: Don’t talk about real life unless its a close friend or partner or guildies you trust. No one on wow cares or wants to know about random people’s pronouns, jobs, what they are doing in the moment, etc. From the way you made it sound, your child goes around explaining:
Are preferred pronouns covered within the Social Contract to where xhe won’t get banned for explaining it to folks in-game or using it in-game?
And it goes right back to my above point…no need to explain anything to anyone. Keep RL and WoW separate unless you truly trust someone so with that info.
Right but then xhe feels excluded, others speak “normally” about themselves and all xhe does is mention a xer or a xim pronoun and all of a sudden it becomes “Don’t speak. Don’t talk. You’re different, you will get reported. Expect it and it’s your fault for being different.”
Just stay silent then, it’s not gonna get any better if you keep bringing the heat on you. There’s no win win and the social contract isn’t going to help realisticly, blizz does not have a ton of GMs ready to investigate every incoming report like FFXIV does. They’d rather fire 800 employees then do that. Enough reports and something will be picked up against you and you’ll get suspended yourself, is that worth the trouble of announcing pronouns?
They had a successful profit that year so they might as well call it firing. Easier to fire high salary employees and hire new employees on minimal wage instead I suppose…nothing surprises me from blizz anymore. “Laid off” is just an excuse to fire you for no specific reason and make it so you can’t sue them easily.
