Things right click reporting will get you muted for:

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Because classic strains individual patience by stressing live, in-world competition for resources.

Because how people used general and trade was entirely different in old school vanilla, and entirely more vulnerable to abuse. You don’t see squelch mafias in retail with any consistency because sharding ensures there’s no opportunity to organize, and nothing to organize against. There’s no devilsaurs to monopolize, there’s no crafter wars, there’s nothing to make people crazy.

These things, and seeing the same people mixed up in them, creates opportunities to love and hate, and that hate gets acted on. Classic is going to take the general sickness of the internet today and bottle it on a per-server basis. That’s why I believe players should absolutely not have the power to squelch.

You are not prepared.

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What? the community is very much a factor, if a community is better than another than they would be less likely to abuse a system like this.

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edit—
and some people also lack the maturity to not just say whatever comes to their mind just because they think everyone should hear it.

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This is what they will be referred as from this day forth!
You don’t see them in retail because it’s not abused as is being portrayed.
Abuse the crap out of it in classic. Force blizz’s hand when they have literally told you not to abuse it. I will have a front row seat for that forum QQ. :popcorn:

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I’m definitely gonna use it. :beers:

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They may not like that it takes place, but it surely does.

I can understand why it does happen; because when you change the rights of a user regarding server access they need to log out for that change of rights to take place.

I doubt it’s a real bug, but a limitation of the server.

Could be something they would like to fix, but I doubt it’s high in the priority list in BFA.

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:beers: and :popcorn: we just need classic now.

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Correct (10 Characters)

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The 10 characters thing is so darn annoying.

Should just use the old forum rules

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I know brother

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Just use an emoji. :icecream:

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why?
:crazy_face:

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Because it’s catchy! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Why does emoji punt as more than 10???

:phone:

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well that explains everything.
:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I disagree.

What RCR does is save me from having to open a ticket, type in the name of the player, the realm we’re on, the date and time, the channel the chat occurred in, and some details about what I’m reporting. (And back in vanilla that meant that character had an open ticket until Blizzard GMs got to it and closed it, so if I needed to report another player I had to log out, switch to an alt, and open a ticket there hoping I remembered all the critical details.)

Right-click report without automation would still be effective - but slower. The key thing it does is flag the EXACT player and the EXACT line of chat in question.

Now, the issue with slower is that RCR is also for things like a whisper from “Bliizzardgm” telling me that I’ve been caught doing something and need to verify my account at bad.url - things that are best killed ASAP. The faster a malware bot (Bliizzargm) is squelched, the less people get the whisper and the less chance of that small subset of gullible players who go to the site, log in, only to have their account compromised and be the next one logging in and spamming the same.

It is also beneficial for outright trolling, hateful language and profanity that just about no one would be stupid enough to claim is within the rules. Back in vanilla, the combination of what a chore it was to report and only being able to submit one ticket easily, plus the long delays it sometimes took for a GM to get to it, meant that someone could get out of their raid on Friday night, troll Trade heavily, log out, and know that any penalty would wear off by the next time they logged in after Tuesday reset. It was a consequence that some of them blatantly mocked, and led to many people feeling like reporting did nothing.

That last is actually a bigger difference than some realize. In years past, there was a strong idea that reporting wasn’t worth it, nothing would be done. These days, even the gross violators KNOW reporting works.

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:slight_smile:

Edit to add: the slight smile emoji is 14 characters by itself. Every character counts. So: No. :slight_smile: is actually 17 characters. By the time you type /10 characters you could have emojied and already posted. Lol. :smile:

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Probably because an emoji is created with multiple characters.

:face _ with _ monocle:

17 characters right there, not sure if the underscores and colons count.

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This actually reminded me of something seriously catchy…

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People whom will be playing Classic, are just very different from the players in retail. The two environments will thus be wildly different. I wouldn’t go as far as to suggest it won’t be misused, but tbh, but I do think the OP is over-reacting. Blizzard will hammer abusers.

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