just a few people, huh? to monitor posts in at least a handful of languages across dozens and dozens of servers 24 hours a day?
I like a good whoopie cushion jokeâŚ
I have forgotten what itâs like to even have my /2 Trade Channel turned on.
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I think people say and do the things they do just to get reactions out of people, thatâs why I donât take anything serious 
None of those things give people permission to break the rules they agreed to though. They are great tools, certainly. However if people decide to break the rules and get reported they can still get actioned.
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If I was the company and somebody was reporting a ton of posts every hour Iâd have the system alert a CM and, if they were false flags, suspend that persons reporting privileges for a time or give them an ingame silence.
Itâs like the people using the flag system on the forums because they donât like what somebody says and not because it breaks tos. Just give them a forum suspension instead.
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Iâve been in several trade chats on busy servers and people are mostly chatting. On one dead server for the first time I saw conversation, probably a coincidence.
People are only using it because itâs hip to be typing in trade right now.
Give it less than a week and people will be over it.
Itâs like telling a kid not to touch something.
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What about the people that are getting actioned by posting once âWTS âŚâ and then mass reported and automatically silenced for some duration of time?
Trade chat should literally be used for trading in game items or services - period. All this talk about politics belongs elsewhere. If you deny this, you are part of the problemâŚ
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This is what trade chat was meant to be, not really but itâs what it has always been since vanilla. Its was always used for politics and flaming not trade. I thought everyone knew this since everyone in this forum has been playing since alpha.
Then whyâs it called âTradeâ chat?
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Ask blizzard itâs been flaming and politics since like week 2 of the game.
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I think regular types of conversation bleeds into trade chat because that where people see the people talking and answer or address them there.
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Sort of like my trash accumulation theory: any place someone dumps one bag of junk someone else shows up to add to it. Which is why you get illegal dumpsites that pop up in out of the way areas, one dweeb dumps a couch off on the side of the road and 2 weeks later it takes the city 3 dump trucks to haul it all away.
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Short version , people follow , they will talk to and where they see Other people talking.
Appeal. You can get auto squelched for lots of distinct reports in a short time. However, a single message selling a mount or something wonât get you an actual GM applied Silence. If it does, they messed up and you appeal.
Politics donât belong in game, in my opinion. It is usually divisive and used to troll and disrupt.
Blizzardâs stance on Trade is that it is a suggested use, but not mandated. We can talk about whatever we want within the game rules. As the only cross location chat it tends to be the most populated and have the most discussion.
People talking about their favorite snacks or the football scores is not against the current rules.
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Sure, if someone was abusing it that should be looked into.
Iâm reporting in good faith and not that many. But if youâre a low level alt spamming general and trade chat on CD with your sales pitch, youâre getting reported without hesitation.
A lot of others are reporting because they donât know the full policy and are just fed up with the boost spam.
Sellers need to learn to âread the roomâ and maybe take a week off.
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Lmao.
Please, continue on the forums more with your racism and stereotypesâŚ
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I notice that there arenât a lot of them that actually can do this⌠If you donât wanna get shot in a warzone, keep your head down.
I invoke Godwins LawâŚ