Hello i have recieved a chat ban due to a name i had that was found “bad” now i can see why you may think that but until you look up the name its a country club sorry for the confusion and im ok with the name change but the chat ban? how long will this last it doesnt say
Your welcome to put in a apeal usualy theres not a penalty unless thisnt ur first account action .
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it definitely was i just started playing 2 months ago with 0 issues what so ever and they just jumped and its affecting m+ push lol cant search groups i dont know where to put in an appeal
You would’ve recieved a email telling you how.
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I believe this article has a link to help you submit an appeal.
While you wait, I would encourage you to check out the Code of Conduct and review that. In general, anything political is going to be considered disruptive.
Lastly, roleplaying servers have additional rules relating to names that must be followed if you are on such a server.
Typical social penalties start as a one week silence, then become a one week suspension, increasing in length until becoming permanent.
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If you have not received an email, check the spam/junk folders.
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No confusion – you picked a name you knew was bad, and tried to use a country club as an excuse that it was somehow okay. You have that backwards. If a name has a bad connotation, no amount of tortured logic would make it okay. If a GM changes a name proactively, as appears to have happened here, they’re doing you a favor rather than mistakenly penalizing you in the wrong social category of tickets.
Follow that to appeal the chat penalty, and understand an appeal is not a place to argue anything but a black-and–white determination of whether you violated policy.
Silences typically last a week.
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Inappropriate names fall under the umbrella of social/chat/language violations. The penalty for your first infraction is a 7-day silence (or chat suspension if you prefer). It’s not a ban; bans are permanent, and suspensions have an end date. The penalty for your second social infraction is a 7-day suspension. Each penalty doubles from there, until it eventually does result in your account being banned outright.
There is no decay; past penalties never fall off your ‘record’. There is no ‘time off for good behavior’, so to speak. Even if your next penalty is five years from now, it will be a 7-day suspension.
That just means you managed to go two months without another player reporting your inappropriate name.
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If it is the name of a well known place connected to politicians then that would be why. You can not use names of know people or places.
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I think you may be mistaken. As I understand it, the first penalty for a social violation (which includes names deemed to be inappropriate) is the 7 day chat restriction.
How do you know with such certainty what was in his head? It may have been a completely inappropriate name that any of us may have reported, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to make unsubstantiated claims regarding what someone else was thinking.
I believe this is exactly correct.
I only know of 3 scenarios where a forced name change does not trigger a penalty:
1- Self-reported names can be offered a name change (if deemed inappropriate) without penalty, assuming there’s not a long history of inappropriate names. This is at the discretion of the GM reviewing the case.
2- Server transfers or character restorations where another player already has that name in use.
3- If the player name is one that Blizzard decides needs to be restricted (this is exceedingly rare). For example, a future expansion may have a significant NPC for which the writers want to use that name.
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Not when they tell us:
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A silence would not be the result of an inappropriate name. Choosing the name of a country club (there’s only one that I can imagine would land you a name change) would result in account actions starting with a forced name change. If you chose to use it again or had other names that were equally as inappropriate for on online fantasy role playing game, the next step would be a 7-day suspension.
That said, if the OP had that name, it’s not difficult to imagine that there was likely some inappropriate chat that landed them a silence.
The OP has the appropriate links to appeal that account action if they wish to.
Hopefully, moving forward, the OP will make some better choices in-game when it comes to chat and a poorly chosen name. Perhaps they could use an online name generator to help them select a fantasy name more appropriate for WoW.
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Not what he said, and he had that excuse chambered and ready in the original post, before anyone could challenge it.
Suggesting, strongly, he’s trying to ruleslawyer.
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I have little doubt the OP didn’t know choosing such a name would be risky. It’s like choosing a name after a bodily function that also corresponds to a cartoon character and pretending that you think it makes it okay 
Not that anyone would do that, but I’m using it as a completely unrelated and random example.
My advice though…ignore the one that wants to derail threads and argue with everyone.
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You could be right. You’re probably right. But you don’t really know what was in his head at the time he created the character name. And more importantly, it’s irrelevant. The finger wagging accomplishes exactly nothing and merely escalates tension. The Blizzard rep reviewing the report determined it was inappropriate. And that determination is entirely within that rep’s discretion based on naming policy. The player can certainly appeal, but his claim that it’s just a country club won’t be part of the consideration. The rep review the appeal will simply determine if the naming policy was applied correctly.
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Well, that didn’t take long.
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I thought they did that to some extent for in-game violations, but that might have been the technicality involving the change in the penalty system a while back. I know there is a penalty decay on the forums or I would never have made it to trust level 3, but I thought there was one that applied to the game itself.
I’m trying to resist the temptation but my inner highschooler still lingers…
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I find HS folks very very good at ignoring when they want to. Teenagers are masters of it. Do we ever totally grow out of that?
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Not really a decay, exactly. If your forum account is penalized, you’re restricted to TL0 for six months. At the end of the six months, the restriction is lifted and you achieve whichever trust level you qualify for at that time. That means it’s possible to maintain the requirements for TL3 and jump from TL0 to TL3 immediately.
The in-game penalty record I believe has only ever been reset whenever they’ve altered the penalty structure. Previous iterations may have had a decay, I don’t really remember. My in-game infractions can be counted on one hand with fingers to spare.
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My understanding of the Social Penalty history is:
- Every action on your account is there still. Blizz keeps a permanent record for real. They also know if you have been reported. That is in there! Even if it was not actioned.
- Not every past action counts in the penalty escalation tree. There was ONE reset and that was after the Silence system released in 2016. Penalties before then did not decay, and penalties after that do not decay.
- Due to privacy and data retention law changes in recent years, the logs backing some of the penalties can only be kept for X amount of time. Blizzard can’t retain the chat logs for a chat penalty forever. The penalty record and GM notes are there, but not the log files. I think this is based on EU laws.
Forums are a bit different than the in-game penalty escalation system although they do get longer with each one applied. I think there IS some decay though on forum penalties. Mods also have discretion on what to apply based on severity of infraction.
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