Trade chat: Whats your take?

[Mirasol-mannoroth (Mirasol)]

@Korolak-moon-guard

As said; A patrolling GM checking servers every now and then could probably help a lot.

They did try that on Moon Guard US in Elwynn, in particular. Goldshire even. That trial pretty much shut down any future ideas of assigning a GM to monitor chat.

People rushed there to “engage” with the GM and push boundaries so it got WORSE. Players there stopped reporting because they assumed the GM would see it all and stop it them selves.

So it got worse, not better.

Here is a nice example of someone getting reported and Silenced for the sorts of things you see breaking rules.

Why am I being censored I just want help this is wild

I’ve locked these threads and they will remain locked, but I wanted to cover a few things. You weren’t instantly disconnected, nor were you banned. Even if you were reported enough to receive a squelch, which it doesn’t appear you did in this situation, that doesn’t disconnect you. The account was silenced, after reports of inappropriate chat were received and reviewed. There weren’t mass reports made. You actually have a number of things that you said primarily in Trade over the last few day…

And that has some clarifications from Blizzard about just why the GMs agreed with the player reports and Silenced them. There were 3 threads that person made ranting last night about penalties. Heh. Reading the Blue response today was nice.