Don’t professional services belong in Trade chat, and not Trade (Services) chat? Per your own Blue quote.
They do and thats where I’m posting them. In trade chat, not services.
Dear OP,
If what you say is true and you’ve never used inappropriate language, I would put in a ticket and make sure a GM reviewed it. You are allowed to sell your wares in trade chat and people cannot report you for doing so unless you are spamming it over and over again.
When you do contact Blizzard be sure to see the ticket through until you actually get to a real person. They can go back and look at the records as to when and why people reported you. Perhaps, some action will be taken against the people who are falsely reporting you.
Good luck!
If I ever actually get squelched I’ll have to do that, but I’m sure the squelch will end by the time a GM actually gets around to it. I’ve done this song and dance before and it just always leads to “well the community didn’t like it, which is against CoC” which is ridiculous. If something isn’t against the rules laid out by Blizzard, then it shouldn’t matter what a community thinks about it.
This is a horrible practice. If you are doing something to the point of people complaining about spam, the correct course of action is to stop the spam, not try to pass it off as if they are the problem.
So you report people for doing what is asked of them. Are you illiterate, or purposely stupid?
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Given the fact that they actually design encounters around the assumption that people are using it, I highly doubt that.
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DBM doesn’t go into trade chat. DBM spam in a dungeon can be ignored. Pretty much everyone has the damn thing anyway. I never see it because I have all chat except guild and group disabled when in a party.
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This is the internet. I’ve tried being nice to people and explaining how my addon helps them and they just continue to Karen. Over the years I’ve lost interest in try, hence my response. Its not like I’m likely to ever play with that person again anyway, nor would I want to. Seems like the best response to me, helpful to both of us. You don’t like me, I don’t like you, just put me on ignore and we can never see each other again.
Also, again. Its been about 3 people in 10+ years.
A troll and an example of why Blizzard making the report function brain dead simple was a bad idea. I imagine if he had to fill out a form every time he wanted to report people for using a chat channel for its intended purpose he wouldn’t bother.
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Its actually just a setting build into ElvUI. Being reported for something designed to be helpful is definitely a new low. Wonder how many Karens get into a +10 and have to report their entire group for using the Thundering WA, then getting mad when they get removed for not having it themselves because of how helpful it is.
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You probably dont want to. It is now all automated including permanent bans. No review is taken so all it takes is the reporting.
“How dare you say blacksmith, thats racist, its african-american-smith”
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My fear is they’d look at logs outside of what the people who reported me saw. I swear in guild chat all the time, because we’re all adults and fine with it. Same as when we use discord. I also swear to my friends, because I know they are fine with it. Or that I’d just be wasting my time and sent to the CoC or ToS or Social Contract or w/e.
I will never understand people reporting someone for something. That’s soft tbh
I would never report anyone for anything—with the very narrow exception of real-life crime, like someone doxing someone or calling for irl violence.
The ignore list is not enough for them. They must be punished by Blizzard for their great transgression.
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This happened to me the other day I got mass reported by bots in the plains for calling them out in general.
I know it was this because I never talk. Automatic bans/suspensions are easily abusable. There probably isn’t a solution, not sure if anyone has any ideas on how to fix this.
Actioned and squelched are 2 different things with almost the same exact punishment though.
Go back to needing to fill out report forms rather than 3 clicks. Something tells me people wouldn’t be willing to go through the effort.
Won’t matter if on blizzards end it remains automated though, and it will remain automated.
It might reduce the amounts of total reports but if a human doesn’t look at it, it’ll still be abusable.