Almost a week ago I was given 2 days suspension but it never explained what part of the “offensive” post was offensive. Was it the line I quoted from an old PG rated movie? Or was it explaining why players aren’t entitled to compensation per user agreement?
It mite be or it mite be from something totaly unrelated did u recieve a email it shouldve included a snipet of what caused it.
I never got any email about it. I only got it through forum notification. And it only stated something in the post was considered offensive.
What what confused me the most was 1: the line I used from movie was also used by 7 other users and their post is still showing 6 days later which suggest it can’t be offensive and 2: quoting rules to explain why no one will get compensated on demand shouldn’t be offensive unless the rule itself was offensive.
Maybe when one of the blues come in in the morning can shed some light.
And why I never got any email. I checked the spam folder too. My ISP has another email folder that is inaccessible: “likely phishing email” so if Blizzard email ended in there, then Blizzard would have to talk with my ISP and separate the genuine Blizzard email from WOW phishing email.
You will get email with a snippet of text that earned you a game suspension but I don’t believe you get one for a forum suspension.
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Actually, you need to talk to your ISP to flag Blizzard emails.
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You do get one for a forum suspension. It sends you an email with at least one of your posts in it. I know because someone on here falsely flagged me using a ton of alts. The Mod (not an SFA) meant to remove the flags, and instead sent me on vacation. I got an email with the “offending” post in it.
Of course it got fixed and the person using alts to flag got the vacation instead! But it did teach me that yes, we get an email if we get a forum suspension.
In-game suspensions don’t automatically send an email with the text though. That comes on appeal.
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While the statement itself was accurate - and fine.
Your opening line of ummmm, being inappropriate with an elf was a bit across the line.
That is what happened.
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If the first line was inappropriate, then it’s interesting it was used in a PG rated movie “10th Kingdom”. Beside why was only my post removed and not the other 7 posts that were still there with the same line? Shouldn’t all the posts have been removed at the same time as mine and not still up a week later? Why am I being singled out?
Apparently theirs weren’t reported, Azilz.
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Just be very careful what you post. What might be a joke to you may not be to someone
else and if it’s reported, then you will run the risk of having it very quickly run by the forum guidelines, and then you have your forum ban. (Which is progressive based on your history.)
One of the things that you should also understand is that just because you see other posts or interactions that violate the TOS or guidelines, doesn’t mean that they “didn’t” get a suspension, or you should be “OK”; a lot of the actions are reactive based on the community.
To address that subject. Content in movies, games, music, etc. is static (as in already created and does not change). It gets reviewed within that context. Then rated. WoW is rated PG.
HOWEVER
Players are held to different standards for player created content (names, text/chat). We have to follow the Code of Conduct which is very family friendly. No profanity, masked profanity, slurs, innuendo, sexual content, etc.
People only get penalized, usually, if reported though so some things slide under the radar.
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Are you kidding? Animators and other creators (try to) get stuff past the censors all the time. Alex Hirsch of Gravity Falls fame put out a video containing actual memos from Disney censors and his replies to them, if you want an idea of how that happens. Mostly it’s just for the older audiences that may be watching.
That doesn’t make it appropriate for WoW.
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Update about email, I checked with my ISP. They checked and said I am getting over 50 emails from “Blizzard” a month, all of them with various account action logon required.
Since the origin IP and from line can be faked, they don’t have an easy way to filter out genuine Blizzard email from phishing email.
Guess I’ll need a new email account.
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That is an excellent idea. I have a gmail that is used ONLY for WoW and I have the secondary authentication set up on it. I set forwarding on it to another gmail I check often, but that is also not “out in the wild”. It has never gotten a phishing scam mail. It does get emails from Blizzard.
Once the bad folks get an email address for any reason (used on other websites, compromises, etc.) they will spam the heck out of it with phishing emails.
Sure they do, They can filter based off of the internal routing headers that cannot be faked.
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