Had a buddy of mine silenced in-game for a week for advertising a ticket run.
I’m currently advertising the same thing and would like to avoid this. I dont think ticket runs are against TOS so whats up?
Ticket Run Explanation:
You pay Set amount for the run and get all MS loot, usually have limited slots…kara for example would be 1 caster, 1 tank, 1 heal, 1 physical dps with the other 6 slots being geared carries.
Posting the message in LFG as your advertising for a group still, or is this something to clog trade chat up with…that seems wrong to me tho?
You are completely allowed to use lfg for them as they are a group looking for memebers that is right per blizzards post on where to do it, (will note they even included general chat in there) when they added the rule restricting there posts in the lfg tool. Only the lfg tool has a restriction of no ads. Lfg is for any run looking for memebers while trade is for matters of trade they are not mutually exclusive.
Your friend likly got silenced for spam but you would have to ask him. In any channel spam is not allowed as a general rule if the message is still on screen and you Post again that’s spam so posting back to back is not good so faster chat moves more often it’s reasonable to post but even than wouldent be posting more than once every 30 secs as a general rule. Note this is cross channel so if you are eg posting to trade and lfg at same time that is spam even if only posting every min as both messages pop up on a given players screen at once alternate them every 30 secs is a good idea as hits both channels and at a reasonable rate.
People are far more likly to report runs selling something than anything else as many of these are bots or gold sellers so they do it out of spike and annoyane as so many of them due to the bots. As such you have to be carful to not spam as you will have reports on you from the first message so when looking into it if spammy at all expect action.
That being said if enough reports going to get an auto silence to wouldent spend to long each day advertising as the reports will build up no matter what you do as blizzards system auto silences after enough reports so they have a chance to look into it. This norm means they leave you silenced unless you complain regardless of why.
For my gdkps host 8 a week we have people broken up to diff channels to avoid two people posting in same channel at same time as if diff people in diff channels can’t complain as it’s not same person “spamming”. We get just as many random silences for a week that we get removed via a ticket reporting a incorrect auto silence in lfg as trade. If the silence was correct and not allowed to advertise in lfg would not be removed so easy.
It is also not permitted to do ticket runs if a large organization is hosting it this may not be you but your friend may of been part of one or advertising for one. This means any organization that spans accross more than one realm or faction. So a guild hosted run is not a large organization even no it’s a organization.