On top of being technically gendered and being used in a demeaning way.
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Nobody needs your account ID. Nobody wants your account ID. Blizzard will never display that.
Your account ID is a numeric number that is assigned at Battlenet Account creation. Everything else is tied to that number. The Account ID number can not be changed.
UNDER your Account ID are the following:
Personal Information:
- Real name (can be changed with legal documents)
- Address (can be changed by user)
- Country of residence (can be changed by user in some cases, or changed with legal documents)
- Payment methods (can be added and removed by user)
- Game licenses attached to the Account ID
- Email address for login/communication (can be changed by user)
- Password (can be changed by user). Not even accessible to Blizzard staff.
- Authenticator serial number if attached. (can be changed by user)
Your actual Account ID is never ever seen and is the one thing that canât be changed. Everything else that can be changed, ties back to it.
Your public nickname you want to use - your Battletag - is not personal info or the account ID.
Public Information:
- Your chosen Battletag nickname (can be changed by user)
- Your character-server names for WoW chars (can be changed by user)
Lovely, just lovely. I was trying to ignore this thread because nothing we say here matters. It is just going to go in circles over and over. While we watch the same people display the same behaviors and present the same false information/assumptions. No matter how many times they are told how things actually work, they publicly acknowledge that.
Donât know if just trolling because they like to argue, or bored, or what.
sigh
I fall into the bored category tonight.
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I kind of feel violated that they keep calling me son. Itâs kind of making me feel uneasy.
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Yeah someone calls me son Iâm like, âyou aint dad. Dad is more insane.â
(I wish i was kidding⊠he is doing way better now though. He is back to riding his motorcycle now too.)
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Best to as Orlyia would say:
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I wonder how many rule violations someone needs in a month to be perma banned.
I donât think there is a limit actually. Because people can get permabanned for just one breach, Iâve seen people who have trolled the forums for years without one permaban.
It is all just down to moderation decision.
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You know i wish the Flag option had an âOtherâ and a âPlease explainâ.
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So yeah, I would love battletags on the forums. And like Blind said, more in depth report options.
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Having a little box is a good idea. The flags can even save with the note if the flag causes them to get a suspension so repeat behavior can be documented by the mods.
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Question, when one is out of flags, how does one report malicious and ceaseless slander over a public media? Pretty sure that cutting apart and using words out of context to insult or maliciously misinterpret someoneâs opinions sounds like it would be on the grounds of harassment.
The forum software USED to have an option for a comment. However that was the Blizzard home brew forum software. There was a different cobbled together one for each game and it was a disaster. Around 2016 they went shopping for a unified forum software solution that was mobile device friendly. Discourse is what they went with and they started rolling it out with Overwatch forums in 2017 or 2018, then all the rest eventually. With the last being done in 2019.
There were a LOT of features we missed after the change. The report comment being one of them. Some things were added back to the forums, like IGNORE! That was gone for a couple years. We did not have it at all.
Any changes to the forum features as a whole are done through their contract with the company that makes the Discourse forum software. So proposals, management reviews, funding approval, submitting to vendor, changes done, changes approved. etc etc. Add in priorities and yeahâŠ
If you have an alt that can report, then use that alt. Just do not use your alts though to flag the post over and over. So, if you havenât already flagged it on your account, then flag it.
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I have seen this a few times in this thread, however i canât say who posted it as i donât pay attention to the users and make a mental note of comments.
That is tricky⊠and is something that is hard to explain to a moderator when you canât add a note telling them that the reason you are reporting is that they person is intentionally trolling/misquoting you.
You can use another alt⊠but only report ONCE. Do not switch alts to report the same post again or they consider that abusing the reporting system.
Also, if this is happening on another platform then there is nothing Blizzard can do. If it is here, then that is what needs to be reported.
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So, 1 report per post per Person Not per account. If you have to use an alt keep it to One Flag per account.
Edited to clarify.
Yeah. Iâve flagged a number of posts, though surprisingly none here lol but Iâve never, ever been reprimanded by the mods for flagging anything. They tend to see the nuances when they actually choose to act, even if they almost never do.
I donât suggest switching Bnet accounts to inflate flagging either. They donât seem to have an issue with switching chars though as long as it is being done to report actual things you think are infractions, and only once per post per Bnet account. As long as we have each character-server treated as a separate forum account you have basically unlimited flags.
We would need a Battlenet level forum account, like the other Blizzard forums, to limit the flags to 5 per Battlenet.
Vrakthis explained this to someone else, but unless your abusing the report system, moderation will not penalize you for reporting a post, even if they think your assumption is wrong.
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