When Blizz anoints a council and says it will use that council as a lens to see the community- I welcome information on these people Blizzard is appointing as a reflection of the community.
Baal and Doness were not discussing things like addresses or phone numbers. They were letting the community know what the council members have said in the past, and I think it is important to know what drives their issues with WoW.
One of the reasons Blizz made this council was so they could spark discussion. And then they suspend people for the discussion their hand selected council sparks.
I mean even on twitter or facebook you donât need to start posting addresses or phone numbers to get shut down. If Blizzard lets players openly incite harrassment on their forums and then something happens they will be completely responsible.
Thats why they got all these ToSâ in place to protect against that.
If Baal and Doness were just talking on the forums with that other person then I doubt anything would have happened. Its when they tried to incite that they got shut down. Otherwise we would all be banned by now for all the things we say around here.
Getting called out on these forums and inciting a mob to harrass someone are two different things.
Thatâs how Blizzard, twitter, facebook and many other social medias see things. I am just stating the fact, if you are unhappy with it⌠I donât know make a petition?
I think even the new social behavior contract says something to the same effect ingame as well⌠so I guess you better send an extra strongly worded letter.
Okay, guys we can have this argument later, Doness may be hurt/injured, so please if you have any contact with him, please use those channels to reach out to him. Please. On discord, on Bnet anything. itâs time to put aside petty conflict and help one of our own.
Thereâs a official council that blizz handpicked people for. The intention was for these people to represent the community at large and try to get certain story/game mechanics people want in the game.
So far, some of the people they selected ended up either being racist, sexist or homophobic or some combination of all threeâŚâŚIt went about as well as you would expect after those revelations came out.
Because reading the forums and suggestions from people passionate about their game, aka usâŚ.would mean blizz would have to put some actual effort into it. Most of the people they handpicked were blizzard fanboys anywayâŚ.and racist,sexist,etc.
So yeah, the council is kind of a joke to the majority of the community now from what I gather.
So they looked for Yes Men and were surprised to learn the ones who were thumbs up about the storylines written by literal hands on misogynists were a touch problematic?
Pretty much yeah. Truthfully? Iâm not even sure if the whole council is still a thing to be honest. Last I heard, they still hadnât picked anyone for the story portion of the council and that was months ago.
People had to apply. The goal was to select people from a broad variety of play styles from a wide variety of communities. So RP folks, pet battlers, PvP, solo casual, transmog, AH, Accessibility concerns/deaf/blind, etc. They represent themselves, given they are not elected reps.
In December they went through apps and selected the first 30 or so. There was some drama when one decided to make himself the representative of the council (despite the other members saying it was a bad idea), open a Discord called the âseat of the councilâ, have it be unmoderated and make racist comments, etc. Also kind of spammy - then went on a streamerâs show and doubled down. Not on the council anymore.
The rest of the drama is focused on one person and I wonât get into it because I donât do Discords and donât know the details.
If you want to know about the 60 or so people on it you can head over to the Council forum. All discussions with the Devs of Blizz have to be there for full transparency.
Start with the Intro thread and you can see a wide variety of player types. Maybe someone will be similar to you interest wise.
The goal is to have around 100 people active and to keep rotating them as needed and/or every year.