Self censoring to not say something insane or stupid is not the same thing as self censoring to try to not offend people.
Some people are here just to say , yeh classic won’t be the same as vanilla because nowadays we have people that want to play police on the internet and these people should be allowed to do so.
lowlifes
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I’m rather curious now. Do players on opposing teams in RBGs talk in chat channels to each other? Because the only way to right-click > report for a language violation which leads to a squelch is if they said something.
There are right-click report options if you can target them and do this on the profile image, but none of those are language options that I recall. Reporting name, or cheating, or whatever the other option there is, are not chat violations and don’t go to squelches.
So something seems off about this whole sequence. Who is actually doing the reporting, how are they doing it, and what is the actual account action occurring?
(There’s one other thing, which people tend to forget/ignore. Non-squelch account actions aren’t immediate. If someone is mouthing off in Trade or General, gets reported, and then gets into an instance situation - the account action when a GM reviews is going to happen when a decision is made even if it is mid an RBG. There’s multiple cases I see in CS where the person assumed they got an action over what they said seconds before the boot - and it was actually earlier in that or another gaming session, and the action caught up with them.)
I played a total of 10 levels, and the entire time I was there I did not see a single soul nor was I anywhere near a capital trade channel. I am no longer playing.
So no, I can confidently say that since this avatar began posting I am not currently playing the game.
Do I need to use more specific words so you cannot lawyer them into a different meaning?
The player in the video that was “reported” DCed immediately after being reported. There is no real proof in the video to my knowledge that the person DCed was DCed because they were reported or it was just a random thing.
IMAGINE: It’s the once in a lifetime of each server event! The entire server participates in collecting the resources to open up the Gates of Anh’qiraj for the first time! The prize for being the first to ring the gong, is the highly coveted title of SCARAB LORD and the black qiraj ground mount (usable anywhere in the game). Everyone gathers for the event. The soon to be winner, steps up to ring the gong and is summarily DC’ed as a result of countless right click reports. the server melts down to the ground and the game self-destructs.
![:crazy_face:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/crazy_face.png?v=6" ":crazy_face:")
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We don’t. Because Blizzard does not disclose punishments levied against account. If you play this game for more than say 5 minutes, you should know this.
Which is no excuse for cussing, swearing, racist/homophpbic/bigoted language etc.
You want a blank check to be a jerk and Blizzard is not going to give it to you. We all agreed to follow the rules when we play. Not selectively.
I said confirmed. Just because YOU saw it does not mean it is confirmed.
And as I keep telling you, we will NEVER KNOW IT.
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One of the first things my parents ever taught me was to always hit anyone back who hits you, but you don’t see me right click reporting anyone who throws their virtual hands at me in a chatroom… Knowing that not everything is an attack against you or not everything requires retaliation is also an important child taught lesson.
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LoL what? You do not take into consideration whether you will offend someone before you open your pie hole?
Holy Moly.
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No, because you being offended is your problem. Offense is always taken, not given. And I’m not going to apologize for your hurt feelings.
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As far as I can tell, it’s because they changed it in Legion. The Blog post announcing it showed all the new stuff with the system and I think that new stuff is what people don’t like.
I could be wrong, but I think pre-Legion, there wasn’t a button to report a player for language and stuff. It was only spam. So, people didn’t really use it much(outside of reporting spammers) and would use the actual “submit report” to report players for language or their name(or something else, I don’t know).
That’s just my guess. I really have no idea. I had no real interactions with the reporting system before. Outside if reporting afkers in BGs. I used that before and when I was grinding in Legion+, continued to use it. 
Hahahahaha, OK. We are not talking about me, we are talking about how you conduct yourself and communicate in PUBLIC.
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Did they show the person reporting them? What I’m asking is who reported and using which option.
NOTHING that I’ve seen or heard says that I could log into WOW, pick someone on the opposite faction, report them, and immediately have them DC. (Assuming I had game time, which I don’t.)
Is there a reason you only played for a total of 10 levels?
It couldn’t possibly be because characters under level 10 cannot post on the forums and you are intentionally trying to circumvent a forum vacation could it?
Would doing so not be a violation, in and of itself? Would that not be cause for further reports and action?
This is a strange argument.
- Why is there a need to have idle conversations in trade? Why can’t you do it elsewhere?
- If you don’t talk trash in public channels, you won’t get reported.
If reporting gets abused in BG’s for example, that’s something Blizzard could easily look at and fix in isolation but the chat thing is a bit ridiculous. You’re arguing for the right to not be reported by other players for deliberately saying things in public channels that you personally have decided isn’t offensive enough to be reported. Why should everyone else have to find a way around that when there are multiple avenues for doing what you want to do without bothering anyone else. Make your own channel, whisper, party, discord, etc. so your audience are people that chose to listen. Problem solved.
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The video doesn’t show. You hear the team talking about reporting someone over voice chat as the BG starts. A few moments after the teams engage each other, person DCs. Can’t really say it wasn’t something random, but if it was part of some system blizzard added that people can abuse it’s a bad look.
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Then why try to paint it as some huge number?
Why not just admit that it could very well be a number which is extremely easy to abuse, such as 5 or 10 reports?
Because you keep characterizing it as a low number. Blizzard already knows a low number can be abused. So quit spreading misinformation.
my my my! it’s okay prufinnor. you’re cute and furry and like nice people. me too (well i’m not cute and furry but i like nice people). thing is, part of the description of nice is you give people the freedom to make mistakes. loosen up a bit. you’re too tense.
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