They dont. It is all automated and there is no avenue for appeal. Just dont talk in game.
Sure there is.
Stop being rude and crude in chat.
This isn’t true. It’s not all automated.
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How about being polite. That works.
The OP only got an automated warning. The GMs can’t actually see what for, it is not something on the records. Spam is certainly a good bet though, not bad language.
That normally applies to spam, which you asked about earlier. Blizzard, to a degree, lets the community determine what constitutes spam. Some fast moving servers are fine to advertise a trade ever 3 or 5 mins. Others it is slow enough that is really super annoying. Same goes for ability announcements in gameplay. Some are slow enough nobody cares, others get spammy. There is no hard and fast rule on it.
That is a large part of why the warning exists - to say “hey, your fellow players are not ok with something you are doing, might want to stop”. Prevents it from getting to the level a GM even sees it.
If people find it annoying, even if your intent is good, then it really is spam. YOU find it helpful. They disagree. Might want to turn that off in public groups if that is the reaction that happens to it.
False. Very much false. There is some automation to botting/automation ban waves based on detection criteria that is run in a batch. However, that criteria is hand selected by the Hacks team. Then, they run a search for all that meet that criteria. Chat squelches are automated. Chat Suspensions and account closures are done by GMs.
Of course there is. Very easy to do and someone just had a perma reduced to 6 months in the CS forum after appealing through the ticket system.
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Tbh I wouldn’t worry about it if you are doing nothing wrong.
People that false report usually get punished. Just keep the spam to a moderate amount, otherwise it becomes annoying and CAN be punished. But if your WTS stuff is fine, you are safe.
The interruption in chat thing is fine too. Besides that only happens once every… 12+ seconds lol. I made mine announce as an emote so it doesn’t pop up in instance/say or whatever.
My point is I think far less people would abuse it if abusing it took any effort whatsoever. These abuse problems only really started cropping up when they made reporting people extremely simple. It was even pointed out at the time that this exact thing would happen, and now here we are.
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You still might want to put in a ticket and see it through. If this is happening to you, then it is probably happening to others who are just trying to sell their wares.
The problem is what defines “spam”? If I’m listening to music and get the same ad 3 times in 1 day I think to myself “really spamming that one ad today”. But in the context of WoW its different with so many messages going through trade constantly. I’ve been told by people they’d report me for spam for telling a joke to them once because they’ve heard it from other people before. As if I was supposed to know this somehow.
I was wondering because the character I was on when I got the warning was a prot paladin. It announces all the ints I get with avenger’s shield too.
Chat context is X amount of times a minute. If you aren’t mashing it, it’s not a problem.
Hmmm maybe. See mine only does it when I actually hit my interrupt button. I haven’t seen that with a prot paly. If you are tanking a group and it announces it for each mob that got interrupted, maaaaaybe that could be classified as spam, but tbh I think that would be pushing it.
A ticket would not help. The GMs can’t see what the warnings are for. They also have zero ability to influence policy.
If you are reported several times in World of Warcraft for violating the in-game rules, the game will send you a warning letting you know that you will need to be careful or you may get a silence or suspension in game. This is completely automated and cannot be seen or modified by Customer Support. If you receive one of these warnings, it is recommended that you make sure you are adhering to the In-Game Code of Conduct.
While you CAN post several times a minute, doing so may very well be considered spam by other players and reported. Blizzard generally sides with the players reporting if there are enough. After all, those are also paying customers.
This one is tricky because it really does depend on your server and how fast chat moves as to what other folks will consider annoying spam.
Which is absolutely ridiculous. Letting the patients run the asylum.
More like letting paying customers have a say in what they consider way too much posting of a chat message line.
Again, it comes down to server chat speed. On some chat scrolls super fast and is busy. Posting often is not a big deal and is appropriate. Others chat is very slow and posting every minute is flooding it with just that message.
It is situational, not something with a hard and fast line. Many things in life are that way.
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What a joke, is there ever going to be an end to this chat nonsense. Feels like a kindergarten class with the mean librarian as the substitute teacher for the day.
The answer is never talk to anyone in this game ever. Turn off all channels (Trade, General, etc.) even turn off the emotes and I promise you will never have another issue with anyone in this game.
/end sarcasm
It’s not really sarcasm when most of us already do it and have for years. lol
I don’t know about where you live, but here where I live, Kindergarten children are ALSO expected to follow some very basic rules around language in the classroom.
And as someone who works with Kinders, they seem to be much better at it than those who can’t help themselves from typing something inappropriate and hitting enter.
I love how you seem to think your own actions are still the fault of others. It would be much more respectable if you just took responsibility for your own actions instead of projecting your issue on others.
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Tbh I don’t think you can SPAM anymore. You can post what? 2 messages a minute and the built in message block kicks in.
I guess smaller servers it would be a big nuisance lol.
Not necessarily. People either like to troll or are hyper sensitive to non issues.
Example, posting a WTS once a minute, someone can consider that “spam” and report you. I don’t think that is spam, or fair if you get muted for something like that.
Classroom rules aside (ex teacher speaking), that is excessive no matter how you spin it… Unless you are full blown ‘butt insert-spell’ posting in trade.
This should not be a thing to begin with. Some people consider spam one post a minute, another person once an hour, another person one time EVER.
My posts never repeat on the same screen of chat. At minimum they are 3 minutes apart on a populated server like Proudmoore. I’ve even had people message me that they’ve been trying to find me for awhile but it was hard to find my post in the sea of politics and thunderfury.
It shouldn’t be situational. It shouldn’t matter if an entire server thinks that profession services shouldn’t be posted in trade when Blizzard has clearly stated that thats where they are SUPPOSED to be posted.