Streamer had chat mass report me: now account is silenced

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In a rated pvp blitz match I had a player call me out, claiming, ‘we lost because this person (me) made this decision (I left a teamfight where we outnumbered the enemy team, and weren’t making progress on killing either of the healers while we were losing nodes around the map.)’

This was a bgb match with multiple points of failure, and I disagreed with this players reasoning for specifically calling me out in chat attempting to pin the loss squarely on me.

I responded with a series of counter attacks, in summary it was something along the lines of, ‘youre an unaware removed moron, don’t call me out like that’: in terms of toxicity in a pvp environment it was extremely mild.

Anywho, I started receiving tells, about 3 - 4 in total from random people claiming:

"Better watch who you’re talking to like that. That player is a r1 twitch streamer, and his whole chat just mass reported you’.

Lo behold, the next day or two something happened which has NEVER happened before in all my years of playing this game, going back to vanilla: my account has been silenced for a week.

My question is how is it alright that twitch streamers can have their chats mass report their fellow players, and administrative action is actually taken because of it? I’ve had exponentially worse comments said to me in the past and I know no action was taken on behalf of blizzard against them as consequence, apparently because I didn’t have a chat full of fanboys mass reporting them in my favor.

It just doesn’t seem right that I can’t even mention this players name on the forums because blizzard has a problem with that, meanwhile this player can broadcast my name on a third party website, have their chat mass report me (while they mock me as they are doing it), and in response my account is silenced for a week because of it…

I urge blizzard to take a look at my chat logs to verify my story.

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it isn’t alright, its called brigading and you can get account actioned for it, but you have to prove it.

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You weren’t silenced because you were mass reported, but because you called him an ‘effing moron,’ as you admitted. Even if you said it in self-defense, you can still be silenced. Just because someone is toxic towards you doesn’t mean you can be toxic in return, that’s how it works.

I’ve been reported many times and have received several in-game warning notices this year alone (it’s at least 4), but I haven’t been silenced yet (I know I didn’t say anything silence-worthy). The last time I was silenced, years ago, it was warranted - not because I was mass reported.

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They did, and they didn’t like what you said. Hence your silence.

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The last time I said “much worse things” got me a 2 days silence, and I stopped saying “much worse things” since then.
That’s a you problem.

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not getting caught and punished doesn’t mean its not enforced.

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Not getting caught? I’ve made worse comments than that on THIS FORUM and I’ve never been silenced.

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so, the rules are basically no swearing/negative talk at people, if you swear and blizzard sees it, you can get in trouble. however, blizzard isn’t looking, so the only way for blizzard to see you swear is if someone reports it. this means you can swear like a sailor as long as nobody reports it, but the minute someone does, blizz will come looking, and much like parents, they aren’t interested in justice, they are interested in peace and quiet, so the person causing all the noise is who gets punished regardless of who was actually right or wrong.

now, you have to also realize that a lot of people think you can just abuse reporting, basically they never got corrected by their fellow students for telling on their fellow students in preschool/kindergarten. normally what happens when someone falsely reports a fellow student is that they get hit in the face, but when that lesson never happens they grow up thinking they can just abuse report options whenever.

when those situations collide, you get the situation you were in, where someone views the report system as their personal power and their ego drives them to flex their power over you.

yep, you?

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its against the TOS and depending on how you interpret california’s cyberbullying law, may be illegal.

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where am i berating you?

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hey man it is what it is and it has been so since the dawn of time

you stand up to your bully and punch him square in the face you both get suspended

the reward isn’t them getting suspended, it’s you standing up for yourself

the lesson here is:
nerf wrarios

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but also avoid punching too many people in the face, you dont want to be the punch-in-the-face guy

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You could open a ticket, explain what happened and Blizzard might check the chat logs of this supposed streamer to see if they did tell everyone to report you. That’s an actionable offense I believe, even more so than saying a bad word

However, even if they do action this person, it probably won’t result in your silence being lifted

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???

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Unfortunately thats how they roll, and the powers that be cater to streamers.

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This morning in Solo Shuffle, the DH was being toxic towards players, they were firing back at him. I never say a peep, because its bait, they are in discord together, was one of those queue sync premades, a rigged match. They wanna bait you to fire back so they can all report ya. Stay silent, get that extra win in while they rage about it lol.

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You should post this in customer support. They’ll be able to help you out more than we can here.

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You just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the reporting system works. It doesn’t matter if the entire bg or stream is against you or whatever, it’s just what you did. (You wouldn’t have had any issues if you hadn’t have been naughty lol.)

If it’s as you posted it’s not “mild” per their rules, it’s extremely cut and dry. You said something bad, you got punished for that.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else did for your own issues, just what you did. It doesn’t matter if they were mean to you, but it does matter what you did back. They look at things you did separately from what they did; it’s quite possible that not even the same people saw the different log sets. It’s like road rage, if someone cuts you off while not signling, and then you accelerate and decide to brake check and he rear ends, you would be held accountable for your actions.

While I can actually understand the emotions of I am a loyal customer and was a “victim” of meanies; blizzard could care less; indifference and no positives from personal justice in their game.

Not sure how or what you could do to get the streamer in trouble for soliciting whatever and I suspect it would be fundamentally complicated due to how they don’t really care that much to look at things that are not “this or that”.

Censor what you do or face the consequences. It’s not always seemingly fun or even fair but it’s how blizzard does their very easy to manipulate communication guidelines; nice and cheap and easy and hard to lawyer.

Last thing, if you knew it was the above scenario, then you should have immediately never put yourself in a vulnerable position since blizzard would only respond reactively. (And they had multiple sources of what YOU did apparently so fat chance it would fall under the radar.)

Be careful out there :slight_smile:

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OP’s brain:

-Messaging a non-streamer something against the TOS:
Perfectly acceptable
-Messaging a streamer something against the TOS:
Perfectly acceptable

Reality:

-Messaging a non-streamer something against the TOS:
Can get you banned/silenced
-Messaging a streamer something against the TOS:
Can get you banned/silenced

If anyone reviews your chat log they’ll just read what you said and be like why would we review any further? Was it unfair it was mass reported because there was an unexpected amount of viewers seeing it? Sure. Was it still against TOS? Yep

If you didn’t say something against the TOS and you got mass reported, that’s a completely different story.

That being said, there’s a reason actual streamers hide their chat

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Not sure if you just wanted us to know what you allegedly did, but geez, he recovered from his concussion and just continued partying after your haymaker victory :slight_smile: ?