Let’s brainstorm how this feature will get abused! I bet you’ll get muted for:
Referring to Deadmines as “VC”, by the people who call it “DM”. And the inverse: referring to Deadmines as “DM”, by the people who call it “VC”.
Announcing world bosses, by the guilds who want to keep it quiet.
Having a presence of any kind on your server that inspires envy or anger, and speaking in a public channel, including but not limited to statements such as: calling out world firsts, linking your Thunderfury.
Advertising your guild will be one of the fastest ways to get muted, even if you’re respectful and keep it to a minimum. There’ll be people who want to right click you for having disgraced their eyes even once.
Saying anything related to Devilsaurs.
Chuck Norris jokes, for sure. Might be even faster than guild advertisement.
Saying anything in the Barrens, ever. Short tempers and long lines to quest objectives, history has proven, are fertile grounds for misbehavior blooming.
Exactly, youll also be mass muted by randoms who coalesce to get you muted for picking a herbing node that they wanted. Or killing Echeyakee when they wanted to tame him, or perhaps catching the boat before it left the dock when they missed it.
Everyone cower before the totally not exaggerated boogeyman than is RCR. Unlike all those other things that will “totally kill classic”, this one will… “totally kill classic”.
Those examples are complete nonsense. The only time you’re going to see right-click reporting abuse is when there’s a sufficient concentration of people and salt. Some of your examples have salt, but not nearly enough people.
The abuse is going to center around the usage of general and trade.
This isn’t a problem on live servers because there are no servers, nobody’s somebody, and no one ever has to wait in line for anything.
Nothing, because I have great control of my fingers and don’t violate the chat rules in-game.
(Sure, someone out there could decide to rage-target me because I don’t think right-click reporting is a bad thing. They could hunt down the server I’m on, get a bunch of people to roll alts there, follow me around hoping to get me to say something in chat, and then all right-click report. But it’s not something I would be doing that would get me muted, and an appeal would get it lifted with no account action.)
Getting squelched has nothing to do with rules. It has to do with mob rule, which is something that live servers do not facilitate. Classic is very different, and it concentrates salt.
I repeat:
Sure, someone out there could decide to rage-target me because I don’t think right-click reporting is a bad thing.
Oh, boo hoo hoo. .
Getting squelched wouldn’t ruin my life in any way, and it would be temporary.
False. While some may be squelched by abusive reporting, it does not negate the many who get squelched for outright violations and find the squelch upheld and extended to a silence. (Someone posted in CS today that has an EIGHT-MONTH silence. Guess what? Every squelch to silence they got up to and including that last one was about the rules.)
It’s always amusing to listen to the people saying that Classic players will be absolute saints and not abuse the auto-squelch system. That is, of course, laughable. Classic encourages people to squelch. The trolls will feast.
I’m going to hazard a guess that you didn’t play vanilla, and you have no idea how a persistent community changes people - particularly, how they misbehave.
Things were cut-throat. Mental. I remember the crafting wars. The first armorsmith with the lionheart helm, bidding furiously against the second in trade chat. The spams of smith on smith, their guilds behind them, going manic for money. Now they’re going to have their buddies muting each other, trying to control who can advertise.
There’s no doubt in my mind these things will foster abuse. A persistent world puts people under the kind of pressure that retail has completely eliminated from the daily experience of players.
No doubt in my mind, none at all, that guilds will be organizing squelches against their rivals’ recruitment spams. You hardly see those, these days. They were the main way of building a guild, back then.
RCR just doesn’t fit how people played classic. You’ll see.
so the supposed superior community of Classic is somehow going to be worse than Current? No one is saying that no one would try to abuse this, they do it now, just that it would not some massive thing.
lol sure it does, if the community is supposed to be superior in Classic, why would they abuse this system more widely than the the supposed ‘worse’ community of Current WoW?
I look forward to seeing posts about how entire guilds were banned for promoting abuse of the system. “We dint do nuffin wrong”…
Go ahead risk the guild and the innocent players in the guild being banned. The forums will be quite lively. Lol.
There is less incentive to abuse the system in modern WoW. The only place where it makes sense to abuse it is RBG…
In the case of RBG it is indeed abused.
In Classic WoW things are different, the entire world is valuable, world bosses are valuable, Battle grounds are the only instanced PVP format, and the casual players as well as the rank grind players are all in the same place.
The system will get abused more frequently per capita in Classic.
The best possible solution is to eliminate the auto-squelch component, in turn you also eliminate the DC component, in turn the system does not get abused because the players doing the abusing will have no reason to abuse the system when there is no instant gratification to be had from it.
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