People explaining to you how the policies work, especially for breaches to the In-Game Code of Conduct work, are not acting strict. They are explaining to you how things work.
You have agree’d to the same rules as everyone else here, when signing up to Blizzard to use the platform. You do not get any special pardons because you can’t follow the rules. You’re the one who was caught breaching the rules, you have had action taken accordingly and appropriately when other players have reported you. If you can’t accept any responsibility for your own actions, then that is a you problem, not a Blizzard/other players problem.
If you come to my house and misbehave after you know my rules I would ban you not just suspend you from coming to my house. My house is a private residence. This game belongs to Blizzard, their house their rules. Where you get this, “freedom of expression” in a privately owned venue is beyond me.
I expect you read the rules, of course you did you had to in order to play the game. You are in control of what you type into the game. No one else is responsible for your actions. Try typing nice things and yelling what you want to type at the screen.
They do not suppress you because of thought crimes, but misbehaviour against other players. Namely, you’re trying to find excuses to abuse others, like a maniac.
Pleas stop trying to make exuses for your actions - GMs goes off their logs, what they see in relation to the reports. If you’re dropping F-bombs and slurs in chat, they’re going to action someone. If they don’t see anything related chat actions, AKA, you was being reasonable, not cusing or belittling others, nothing will happen.
They don’t. You’re not getting it. They make a determination based on their logs and if you violated the rules.
YOU started this thread admitting YOU violated the rules. How are you even arguing about this still?
Show me the law that provides you with a legal right and freedom to enjoy this game. Hint: There isn’t one. You can make up stuff all you want, but it won’t make it real.
You have a responsibility to follow the rules you agreed to. You failed in that responsibility (as you admitted in your initial post).
The GMs only consideration is if an infraction happened. In this case, yes - yes it did. Over 4 reports on 4 different days. Profanity isn’t allowed, not explicitly, not masked, or as in this case - not abbreviated.
The penalty itself upon review and approval of an infraction is determined by the system - and the system looks simply at how many like infractions there have been in the past. Socials don’t drop or age off.
I see you have an appeal currently open. I’d be very surprised if this one gets overturned looking at this chat.
It doesn’t work like this, as you have been told. You broke the rules, so you were punished. This is stuff you should’ve learned before you even started kindergarten.
It’s not, as you have been told. You broke the rules, so you were punished.
No one is telling you to change your opinion. They are telling you to change your in-game actions, so you don’t break any more rules, and thus get punished further.
Ultimately, that’s up to you. Continue breaking the rules, and Blizzard will continue punishing you. Don’t like it? There’s the door. Bye.
They looked at it just fine. You broke the rules, so you were punished.
It’s their game, their rules. Don’t like it? There’s the door. Bye.
Players can report any behavior they feel violates the Code of Conduct or EULA. Blizzard would rather have someone “falsely” report an issue they believe violates the rules than have players hesitate to report something out of fear of being penalized for making a “false” report.
You, I, and every other World of Warcraft player have agreed to follow the Code of Conduct. We are all expected to adhere to these rules.
I’ve been playing off and on for many years, and during that time, I’ve had my fair share of disagreements with other players and different play styles. I have no doubt that I’ve been reported by other players over the years, yet I’ve never had an account action taken against me.
This is true for many other players as well.
Take this suspension as an opportunity to reflect on your actions and consider how you interact with others in the game.
Yes players can report you for anything, however all reports are reviewed, reports that don’t violate any rules are thrown out and ignored, they do not add up. There is no counter looking at the total number of reports over the life of an account that includes invalid reports., all that matters is the number of actions against an account where a person was found to have violated the rules. The exception to this is a silence, which could occur if there is a large number of chat reports in a very short time, this will be reviewed by a GM though and then actioned or voided, based on the actual text activity in the chat logs they receive.
As for what likely occurred against you, rour not always getting upset does not matter at all. If you decided to be toxic, or use inappropriate communication on Blizzard chat, if anyone reports you, then you likely will be actioned on. It’s very simple, the rules are clear, and GMs will see your actual text int eh chat. You don’t get to argue and make excuses. They have your chat logs, the decisions will be based on that.
There is no Automated system outside of the squelch and its temporary. All actions even the squelch are looked at by GMs or the Hacks team. That said they all use template emails, and no they are not going to give you details on what you did.
Account actions have a schedule, where each action found against you will slowly increase the penalty until your account gets closed. However for things like hacking/botting depending on the evidence and impact of the issue, penalties can be much harsher, and more likely to get an account banned.
What’s right about someone with no control over themselves infringing on another player’s enjoyment of the game? I don’t pay for a sub to be harassed by another player or have to see their tantrums.
You’re doing a lot of talking about “player’s rights,” but you only seem to be worried about someone’s ability to skirt the rules - and not the rights of the greater population of players. We don’t want to see that mess. We want to enjoy the game, not deal with someone who cannot control themselves.
If you must vent, vent verbally. If you can’t control your fingers dancing over your keyboard, then that’s a whole other you issue that you need to work on. If you don’t, then you’re going to learn the hard way about how far your “player’s rights” is going to get you as the sanctions continue to stack.
The whole point is for the penalties to be strict and stricter with each use, to discourage the behavior that’s against the rules in the first place. If the duration of the suspension upsets you, let’s hope it’s enough that you don’t repeat it.
Blizzard has been cracking down on this! Gm’s like in many courts have their hands tied. The penalty depends on what you did plus the account history in regards to breaking the code of conduct and TOS. Given you got ten days there has to be more history plus could be that the FSA mentioned you got reported doing this over 4 days, So at least 4 times. My guess is that could be why it might have gone past a silence.
I hear about people getting suspended or banned on accounts a lot, and if it isn’t for cheating then I have to imagine whatever was said must have been pretty bad.
I’ve only ever had one infraction on my account and it was all the way back in BFA like 8-9 years ago. I was in an island expedition and I forget the exact circumstances but 2 people were clearly trolling me and trying to make me mad.
But instead of just ignoring it I raged at them and said some pretty awful things. Well, my account got silenced for 3 days I believe. Even at the time I thought that was more than fair. I was out of line.
So, for people to get banned or even suspended and it isn’t for cheating then I have to imagine some pretty crazy bad things were said.
So someone getting suspended for chat just means they had previously been silenced, and the silence proved to be ineffective at getting them to stop breaking the rules.
If anything the mature language filter is a helpful set of training wheels if someone is really having issues tempering their language. If it blocks out a word, then you know not to say it, and it’s unlikely someone will report you for it the first time. Or heck, find a dead spot in the middle of nowhere and /say things and see what gets blocked.
Nah they don’t, especially as it’s pretty standard moderation approach and rule set. And the monthly fee also comes with you agreeing to terms that tell you not to do certain things that nobody ever reads when they should.
That’s a problem for the player, to be frank. If you don’t want to abide by the rules in order to play the game… then don’t agree to abide by them and act shocked Pikachu when you’re handed repercussions by breaking the rules you agreed to.
You cannot step foot into the game world without first agreeing to those rules. If you think that they aren’t going to take steps to ensure the integrity is as good as can be, maybe this isn’t the game for you (general you, not cardinal).
I loved the show, but there’s no possible chance that I’d set one pinky toe in LoL. Why? Because of the toxic community. And I liked Heroes of the Storm, but I’d only play it solo with bots.
When people would discuss the show, sometimes people would say “I love these characters and this world, should I try LoL?” And EVERYONE would immediately tell them no. Everyone knows that the players in LoL are particularly awful to each other, and while they have moderation tools where they tried to focus on “positive” reinforcement and offloading decisions about offenses to the community to decide instead of staff, it doesn’t seem to make much of a dent.
Everyone knows it’s the toxic game where toxic people are toxic to each other, and that reputation is so strong that even a megahit TV show can’t move the needle much on their player numbers.
If WoW allowed their community to be an unfettered grotty sweaty sock stuffed in the bottom of a gym bag it would drive off way more players and potential players than actually enforcing their rules does.
No its a excuse players like to use to get away with being toxic masked profanity always been reportable and actionable players need to man up and stop trying to get around the rules.