That was essentially the response I got to my “Appeal” action to my silence yesterday.
So I lost my Trust Level 3 because some people over-reacted to one of my sillier ways to phrase my legitimate threads (as CMs can see in my post history [I have it hidden from others for other reasons, not because of post history], my posts are legitimate posts/critiques, but they are phrased in different ways than most), and flagged it as trolling (Hell, if you have access to the deleted thread, you can even check 6 posts down in the thread, where I point out what the thread was referencing), and a mod for some reason also didn’t see it as what it was, and deleted the thread and silenced me.
There’s no rules in the ToU (trust me, I read them many times, and am constantly the person who points them out to people in the forums) about HOW you must present your post. I am more than allowed to present my post in a sarcastic manner or a silly manner, as long as the point is a legitimate point. My thread that was “trolling” had a legitimate point in it, but the GM that silenced me from it apparently overlooked the legitimate point within it, which, when I went to sleep, had people talking about it in the comments.
I had over 13,000 posts on the old forums without an account action and over 1,000 on the current forums without one, so I’m WELL AWARE of how to post threads without “trolling.”
How are we supposed to be able to appeal forum account actions if we’re outright told that we can’t appeal them if the thread was deleted? (Especially since when I got actioned, it literally had a button said "You may appeal this action by pressing here, which I did and explained the situation). On top of that, the response ticket implies that the OP is the one that get actioned if the thread gets veered too off-topic by other people?
EDIT: And for the record, it was a Water Strider topic, BEFORE Blizzard decided to consolidate all the topics into one thread, as before then we didn’t have a single thread to post in.
My point in the thread was that - why do we have mounts if Ion’s issue with Water Striders is everyone is using them? Why not lock mounts solely behind Mythic Raiding, because otherwise you will see too many people on the same mount too often.
It’s a valid point to a current topic of discussion in WoW. It’s not trolling. Ion’s own logic is that Water Striders are too commonly seen, which is why they were doing the new Water Strider changes. And it had people talking about it. There were people who just read the title and responded, which is why I clarified in the comments about 6 posts down.
The fact my thread was deleted and I was silenced because I presented it in a silly fashion, is unacceptable. The fact I was unable to appeal the silence because the topic was deleted (I do not know if this was because of the consolidation or because the GM saw it as trolling) is even more unacceptable.
And before you ask, no, I did not have an option to further the appeal. They automatically marked it as resolved because the topic was deleted.
