Wows punishment system needs a absolute OVERHAUL

[Mirasol-mannoroth (Mirasol)]

@Calebthelord-mannoroth

But what kind of a punishment system does this game have it seems as though you just collect a certain number of reports and then you get handed an automatic punishment by a heavy handed draconian bot that just doubles your punishment from last time regardless of if you got in trouble for calling someone’s transmog trash.

You got suspended for Chat? That is not the usual punishment for language violations.

There is only ONE automated part of the system - Squelch. It was put in game many many years ago to handle gold spammers/advertisers until a GM could get to them. It does require a certain number of reports to triggers.

Silence is the normal punishment for language - it removes access to the Social features. This is applied AFTER a GM looks at the logs attached to the report. If they agree there was a violation, they apply the penalty. It does double every time it is applied. That doubling part is automatic, but applying it is not.

Getting suspended for language USED to be the penalty before Silence came about. It was switched to being used for only more egregious violations, but may be used with frequent violators as well. It is an intentional penalty applied by a GM on top of the Silence.

Here are some recent examples of CS discussing what the logs support vs what the player states on the forums.

If someone says "REPORT HIM" in chat, and you get kicked offline 10 seconds later how is that fair?

I’m going to close this topic because it violates the forums Code of Conduct. Discussing Disciplinary Actions This category includes: Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and a Game Master (GM) Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a character or account on the forums It is also my job to clear up false or misunderstood information such as scenario y…

This one in particular may be relevant to you given it mentions a Suspension in addition to the Silence penalty normally applied.

10 Day Suspension for Abusive Chat

Harassment, especially on-going harassment definitely includes a stiffer penalty if we’ve gotten that far. To answer the original question, as Moonchylde mentioned, penalties do escalate. We try to provide warnings and ample opportunity to correct the offending behavior so often the first penalty for chat violations would normally be a short silence. The second tends to increase the duration of that silence, and so on. It is important to understand that we want to do what we can to ensure tha…

@Calebthelord-mannoroth

And just to put this into perspective this is the 2nd time ever I’ve been suspended since I started at the start of wrath the first time was the beginning of mop when I got suspended for 1 day and now what like 9 or 10 years later this bot still hasn’t forgiven me and doubled the punishment for something extremely trivial.

Yeah…they have not handed out suspensions for Chat violations to speak of since the Silence system started in 2016. … Chances are either you did a bit more than use a mild insult, or they have changed to move away from Silence and back to Suspensions if Silence is not working.

Others are also right, posting about Account actions is against the forum rules.