Things right click reporting will get you muted for:

[Mergons-terenas]

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

I do think the OP is over-reacting.

So do I.

[Slendy-sargeras]

Right click reporting enough disconnects the person from the game

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

Which has been told by the devs it’s not intended. It’s a bug.

[Roranora-smolderthorn]

I am going to treat it like any other Blizzard game and be extremely toxic and remove myself from any chat channels and have 0 teamwork.

[Fesz-cenarius]

Which has been told by the devs it’s not intended. It’s a bug.

As I said before, whether it is a bug or not is irrelevant if the disconnect occurs anyway.

A predictable unintended result is extremely unusable.

Or, are you going to try to just handwave that glaring fact away?

[Fesz-cenarius]

I am going to treat it like any other Blizzard game and be extremely toxic and remove myself from any chat channels and have 0 teamwork.

You sound like another poster on these forums.

I ask (only half humorously, BTW) do you believe that all those other players in an MMO are nothing but obstacles in your way?

[Slendy-sargeras]

People abuse right click reporting to disconnect people on retail. That garbage can stay there

[Zisifar-argent-dawn]

Which has been told by the devs it’s not intended. It’s a bug.

You say this but I remain unconvinced. If you’re talking about the people reporting getting disconnected, that is a bug. We’re talking about the reported player getting disconnected before the account silence is applied.

[Mcnibbles-turalyon]

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.

Am I missing any?

VC issue: Everyone reporting needs to be in the same area the report has to be the same infraction and again assume the random ADULT strangers are just gonna be like wow lets just do it because this guy is. It may work with popular streamers but you the random joe will be hard pressed to find 6+ more people to just blindly follow your lead.

World Boss: again have to be in the same zone so you find one in Zone A but said person is in City B telling everyone wont work. This may get abused if there a whole guld in zone A and the person talking is in Zone A and the guild mass reports but again your running the risk of putting the guild inot report abuse.

Presents of any kind: ya this could be abused

Guild recruitment: ya possibly but again it would have to be mass quick succession meaning 3 people could report now, then 30 minutes later another 3 wont work all 6 would have to do it in a short time span.

Devilsaurs: again needs to be same zone and in short time span of each other also since unlike retail I will assume you wont be able to right click the opposite fraction like you can in retail in pvp.

Chuck Norris jokes: being that it usually not one person saying them it be hard for a group of people to just pick one person.

Barrens: again I know people believe people are sheep but most have a mind of their own just because you don’t. Unless your gonna announce in public chat that your trying to get someone reported just because which will probably result in you being reported doesn’t mean a handful of other peole will just blindly be like ya sure.

If report mute was a only 1 report thing ya these could be heavily abused but being the report needs to be a group of people, all around the same time and for the same reason it makes it bit less simple.

However it will be abused in classic and not because of the system but because as these forums taught anything it sounds like people are gonna go out of there way to prove abuse. People are gonna exploit the system just to prove their point.

[Davrille-moon-guard]

Serious question for some of you here.

When it is proven that the right click reporting is automated (that’s really what people are worried about, not reducing the number of clicks to file a report), would you report… let’s say… a hunter for rolling on and winning Dal Rends prior to the DM rollout if there are rogues and fury warriors in the group?

No. I’m not raiding or pvping in Classic; I’m going to be the World’s Worst Druid poking around doing quests, the odd dungeon (maybe) and trying to fulfill my Impossible Dream of being The Bag Lady of Darnassus. Loot won’t be that important to me.

And I’m far, far from a saint.

[Davrille-moon-guard]

This is what they will be referred to from this day forth!

I’m definitely gonna use it.

Mm, now I’m thinking of that Monty Python skit: “Nice paratroopers you got here. Shame if someone set fire to 'em!”

[Switzy-stormreaver (Switzy)]

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.

With what GMs? They just fired 800 people, much of them support staff, just before releasing a full MMO. Are their other games so depopulated that they can lay off so many people and still have enough to handle reports from their most social game ever?

[Padrepwn-kiljaeden (Padrepwn)]

Between the auto squelch mafias and the real money traders blizz may be way under staffed to handle any of it, Or their system works better than any of us know, or it’s all baloney. /shrug

[Latest-bloodhoof (Latest)]

According to many dishonest posters who do nothing but fear monger all day long, you’ll also be constantly squelched for mining Thorium.

Um its not dishonest, its called not being a naive onsie wearing soy milk drinker who thinks the world is good and full of goodness.

Humans are mostly selfish and act selfishly.

May will most certainly and have already been abusing the report system.

Classic should go back to classic when it was developed by devs who drink real milk and slept in their under wear like a normal person. Back when if you wanted to report something it took effort so it filtered out the nonsense, and if you didnt like what someone said you were expected to mute

[Ziryus-doomhammer (Ziryus)]

Let’s not forget the fear mongers think you will be squelched just for logging in.

[Mergons-terenas]

right klick report all gnomes!

[Twiinkedd-moon-guard]

How about how you will get silenced for speaking your opinion that RCR will not get abused?

[Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders (Thundertotem)]

I’d rather punt them.

[Zisifar-argent-dawn]

Let’s not forget the fear mongers think you will be squelched just for logging in.

The system is weaponizable though because of the automated parts of it. The scale of abuse is immeasurable since we obviously don’t have Blizzard logs. Honestly there’s been resentment on the automated aspects of the RCR system since it’s implementation. It’s not just a Classic issue. We just have our best chance at finding a better solution with Classic soon to be released.