This reminded me of the ugly dude from star wars cantina who was harassing Luke. “I have the death penalty in 12 systems.” lol
As to giving people game bans for reprehensible posts, that will cause a lot of us to simply not post here. Not because we’re looking to say something bad or break the rules, but because the stakes of having our entire multi-decade game account nuked from orbit over a forum post are simply too high.
No.
First between people flagging and the automated moderation rules I think it’s not gonna be easily visible for that long.
Second and I often smirk at topics that are subjective or judgment calls , which this one certainly is… WHOS judgement? Who’s standard of reprehensible do we go by?
Everyone has different tolerances . What you call revolting someone may go “yeah that’s wrong but not that crazy”
Lastly bans for playing game because someone’s feel feels get hurt? No. Just no. Grow a pair or ignore the forums.
The only exception is if for some crazy individual they violate actual laws not blizzard rules mind you but actual state or federal laws.
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This forum already has a relatively minimal population posting here. Not sure if ‘your’ or ‘their’ absence is likely to be a problem ultimately if the inclination is to run their mouths off.
I can assure you I personally have no intention of running my mouth off in the sense of being intentionally toxic or disruptive.
Some do, and they can be handled with forum moderation. There is no need to hold game accounts hostage to enforce rules here.
The punishment needs to fit the crime, and getting rowdy on the forums is a tiny fraction of how harmful stuff like botting or other things are in the actual game for which you would get a perma for.
The only exception for me is criminal activity, which is serious enough to warrant a ban from all Blizz platforms.
Oh good. What changed?
I got to talking to actual developers. It’s helped my perspective. I’m involved in a few indies, even though I did get scammed by a couple along the way.
Not only that, the stuff I wanted did end up added to the game in the intervening time. And of course, a coupe of individuals who were bullying me are no longer here, though even if they were I could ignore them easily enough today.
You talked to actual developers, yes. It didn’t go well, last I saw. What’s changed?
I actually just got a DM from one of them while typing this about their UI for their very much not public project. You’re only seeing the two that went extremely poorly, but none of the other stuff because there’s little incentive to advertise it at present.
End of the day, we’re getting very far afield from the topic here, and bordering on ad-hominem. I will let my conduct on these forums be the standard I am judged by, and simply ignore unrelated drama from here on out.
As is always the case when talking about moderation/rules enforcement, it’s the platform owner’s judgement that matters. In this case, that’s blizzard.
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LOL now the flagging trolls are trying to say my username is inappropriate? Someone’s sweating about getting banned in game for vile posts on the forums idea aren’t they.
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I’d just ignore them. They are just proving themselves to everyone that they have nothing better to do except to cause drama.
I don’t see how, but it does illustrate how opening the door to game account punishments for forum issue might go poorly.
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Couldn’t put it any better myself. 
Tis a shame OP STILL remains willfully ignorant to this to THIS DAY given their latest topic.
Based on what?
" Vile " would be kinda subjective.
But anyways, if you go rogue on the forums, forum rules apply.
Go rogue in game, game rules apply.
It was rhetorical. Of course it is. It was to imply “it’s not yours “
They do have the option of permabanning someone based on something they said in the forums that was “truly reprehensible”. But the issue is, what does that term really mean? There are a lot of forumgoers who think anyone who has ever had any criticism of anything in the game should be eliminated from the playerbase.
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How it’s enforced, if at all, is on the actual person, not the company itself.
There are experienced, competent mods and there are rookie, incompetent mods. However, when someone gets actioned by the latter, people like to say “Blizzard believed you were wrong” when that’s not completely correct. One mod bans you because you told someone “I do not agree” (which is not rare) while another will ignore that flag as frivolous.
Forumgoers and people in-game. There are things that pretty much anyone would consider offensive like derogatory name calling, etc and there are things that most would feel you’d have to be overly sensitive to find wrong.
This is a sad part of having rules that are overly ambiguous.
Eh I’m not that vindictive over words said by people.
From the last generation that spent more time outside then on video games.
Stronger stuff and more stable I guess.
Anyway I’m gonna recollect over the days spent in the ditch of Arkansas digging out crawfish with my friends and little brother by hand and getting so many cuts from glass in the dirt. Or climbing persimmon trees for cicadas.
It’s a wonder I never got tetanus or something from that or hurt… Sometimes tree burn from sliding down though.
Lol ah good times.
Words to me are like those. They are inconvenient and might sting but only for a moment. It’s temporary to the fun and thrill of life.
No time to dwell on the bad, life’s too short to waste in hate or anger.