A fair punishment?

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Hello everyone,

First off, I fully accept that I deserved a ban for my actions, and I know I probably needed a timeout to cool off. But I am really curious, do you think a 7-day ban is justified for these specific messages?

Context: I was learning to play healer in a BG, and one player kept blaming me for the loss. A few others joined in, and I ended up snapping back. I admit that was my mistake, but the situation got frustrating fast.

Here are the my replies that led to me to get banned for 7 days provided by GM:

  • “bro stf* pls you have over 500 games in SS and not even 1.8” (There was a follow-up message which was not included in the report “so maybe the issue IS YOU?”)
  • “report ur life” (I replied with this because a hunter kept spamming and asking others to report me)
  • “never seen this bad team so far” (I replied with this because others joined them and started blaming me)

After this happened, I got some advice from a GM: if a situation like this arises again, I should report the players and avoid engaging with them. That is definitely something I will be keeping in mind moving forward on top of disabling the chat.

But overall, do you think a 7-day ban is a fair punishment for these replies?

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Ban from playing or a suspension from chat…?

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A 7 days ban from playing the game.

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That’s seriously OTT…

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imo you shouldnt ever get banned from playing the game from typing negative comments.

only severe threat related and completely over the top tilted personal attacks.

rest should just be chat bans nothing else.

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I mean, I learnt my mistake, I will just disable my chat whenever I do PVP content from now on.

Me disabling the chat will end in griefing the team, but at least I will not have to fear about losing my account permenantly.

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i learned that playing league of legends. a robot bans you even if you type alot trying to actually win the game and communicate.

when pugging treat the game and the players as robots, or another robot will ban you.

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An eye for an eyelash.

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Blizzard works with escalating punishment ladders. That means, you’ve been previously found abusive and received a 1 week silence before but could still play the game.

Obviously, you continued to abuse others as you admitted to yourself. That means you get an one week penalty.

The next ones are 2W, 3W+ and/or a permanent ban. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

Good luck in the future!

On one hand you dismiss that it should be used for chats, on the other hand you make exclusions in the same vein to use it against. Personally, it means the punishment in question is working if the penalty is talked about like here.

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Discussing account actions and bans is not allowed on the forums.

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I think the word “abuse” is being exaggerated here. I did not abuse anyone. I was simply responding to comments directed at me.

Oh?

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Yup it sure is.

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