These new forums are... well okay maybe not so bad

Wyrmrest Accord
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I always hated that meme anyway. Couldn’t spice it up once in a while with other races’ catchphrases?

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I know I did it a few times with “For Gnomeregan” or “Victory for Milladee” and some such.

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VICTORY FOR MILLADEE.

Also, as I use the forums more and more, I grow used to the changes and honestly I rather like most of it so far. I’m a bit uncertain about the trust system and some of its affects, but I’m willing to hold judgement until i see how it goes.

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I am really liking them.

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i hate the scrolling
i hate the layout
i hate how nothing is defined
this truly is a step back

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Victory for Sylvanas.

They’ll never stop me from this.

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it is p trash

format is confusing, cant ignore people, too much clutter

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You can ignore people, you just have to go to your profile and mute them from there

xhttps://imgur.com/9SEGUG4

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That is not an actual ignore.

The dude who designed the forum software is wholly against an ignore function. Someone was detailing it somewhere earlier. Blizzard is allegedly working on something but…

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What else would need to be included for it to be an actual ignore?

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Also, what kind of goon could be against an ignore function? I don’t know how you can ever have had a conversation with another human being and think that’s a good idea.

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Finally my likes have been harvested and it is time to feast.

Too bad I am far too lazy to infinitely scroll up to give due diligence to all the excellent fun posts.

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This is his reasoning for it.
https colon slash slash meta dot discourse dot org/t/ability-to-block-mute-ignore-another-user/6001/16

At the risk of a little controversy, the STEM fields are largely dominated by men, straight men, heterosexual, cisgender, often white (though there is a healthy Asian and Indian population as well). It’s very much a boy’s club.

It is possible that the developer is simply in a position of privilege, or in a medium where extreme behavior isn’t as common, such that he has not been in a situation where he has dealt with some of the weird behaviors we’ve seen. So to him in his frame of view it’s unnecessary.

I do think that him not considering other situations is a bad show and that Blizzard proceeding to use his software without getting an ignore feature for themselves is a bad show on Blizzard’s part.

Places like the OW forms may have less harassment problems because there are so many people having a bad experience isn’t that big a deal because you will never see that person again. World of Warcraft isn’t like that.

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Well, having read that clown’s opinion I am now convinced that I was correct and that the issue is that he has never interacted with another human being.

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I’d say that’s valid. There are people who are militant followers of his belief.

“Give flagging a chance.” “Have a civil discussion.”

You know. I could start a thread asking about how to make LGBTQIA safe spaces in game and it would be trolled to oblivion and we all know that Blizzard doesn’t have the stones to throw the jerks out.

This is part of why I focus more on Wyrmrest Discord than the forums. At least there we can throw out people when they spew enough gross.

I would like your post but I can’t. So I’ll just fan at you. :peacock:

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I mean one of his actual arguments was that ignore functions put the burden on the victim by making them click the ignore button. So the solution is to make them responsible for other people’s bad behavior by putting the onus on them to report and pursue reports with moderators? That’s bassackward and crappy even if you presume the mod team isn’t like Blizzards and doesn’t care/won’t do anything.

How is someone this dumb actually designing software?

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Reading through the rest of the thread is a trip. Someone mentioned the seeing abuser in a space being abuse even when they aren’t breaking the rules.

The school admin talking about female students who have been assaulted or escaped from abusive relationships with other students having to constantly see the opinions of those who have assaulted them being not cool, and how those female students demand account deletion. It’s like… Yikes. So yikes I’m not gonna peacock this post because it’s inappropriate after the real talk.

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It puts the burden on the user.

This part gets me. Blocking a person is a burden on the victim, but having to flag them multiple times and suffer their abuse isn’t?

What he’s saying might make sense if you could only have one single line of defense against bad behavior and having mute as an option meant you couldn’t have others, but having only one line of defense would be absolutely moronic.

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If only I’d scrolled. But yes, exactly.

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There are certain types of abuse detailed in post 37 that describe situations where a flag wouldn’t even work.

At one point in the thread, the dude says,

“So these are all theoretical concerns, based on hypothetical situations that somehow we have yet to observe in the real world. I find that very… Odd.”

Like. Yikes. I’ve dealt with some of those situations described.

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