Abusing the report feature

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So in the span of 5 days, I’ve gotten muted twice now, thanks to people not liking boosters in general. Boosting for gold, which is what I do, is not against the ToS in any way, shape or form. Boosting has been a part of the game since Vanilla - both in legal or illegal form.

All I did was advertising the boosting service I’m offering. Not spamming trade chat at all, no harsh or insulting words, no nothing.

However, thanks to the reporting system in place, if the system detects 10+ reports in a short amount of time, you are instantly disconnected, and given a 1 day long account mute, only allowing you to pretty much only be able to talk in party and guild chat (not even on battlenet). And the system doesn’t care if you’ve been falsely reported.

I didn’t do anything wrong, yet I’m barred from the best feature of WoW: talking to others. And the people who falsely reported me are not going to be punished.

Why not have a filter that filters out no-no stuff if you are reported a number of times, but if nothing was found, a GM handles the case?

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skWzi3o4oGI

I recommend giving this a watch everyone. Lots of people missed one huge point I made in this topic (because I happened to mention boosting) and that is that the reporting system is fundamentally broken.

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Well, since we can report for abusive chat, which is down to subjectivity, you can report with just the same set of grayzone rules as you function under with boosting. It’s hard to sympathize with something that is basically a pay2win service, even if you’re just exploiting a loophole that blizzard themselves created.

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Then stop spamming. :slight_smile:

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Can’t say anything in WoW these days without triggering people

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So that way what stops anyone from falsely reporting people, and getting away with it?

Boosting is not p2w, or at least it wasn’t until the WoW token was created. Farming gold takes just the same dedication and time as actually raiding / doing m+ / whatnot.

I wasn’t spamming. If Blizzard has access to chat logs, then they can make sure of that themselves.

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Yeah nevermind the first part I wrote, that was silly. The second half is very relevant though. It absolutely is pay2win since you can buy gold within the ToS now.

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If you keep spamming, well your auto addon doing it for you every 30sec or 1min endlessly you deserve it.

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If that is the case, then selling Nyalotha corruption BoEs is just as much a bannable (or in this case, muteable) offense as selling boosts for gold.

Again, I wasn’t spamming. At all. I keep a minimum of 150 seconds passed between each advertisement.

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I’m not talking about something needing to be bannable. All I said was that I have no sympathy for you since you’re contributing to the pay2win economy and environment of the game.

150 seconds, or 2 minutes and 30 seconds (wow I’m good at math huh), is definitely spamming imo.

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With how fast tradechat is rolling on Argent Dawn, 150 seconds is not spam at all.

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depends on the realm though and how much is going on. if its a “dead” trade chat then 2.5 min is definitely too often.

if its busy, however, then not so much.

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Sure, but if there’s 10 others like him on a busy realm, it becomes a massive amount of spam. Especially because the “boost services” all sort of bleeds together when you glance over the chat. So either way, I perceive it as spam.

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well, yeah, you got a point there.

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You are wrong though. Boosting has it’s place in trade chat, as it’s a service being traded for gold. And just because 10 people are doing it, that doesn’t mean that they should be silenced. Each person is offering their own service, each person pays attention to not spam too much.

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Yeah, sure. I just don’t care personally and I’ll continue to “report abuse” if I see it fit. As far as I’m concerned, the less we get of pay2win folks, the better. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not about to start a witch hunt for your kind.

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PvP boost?
I guess your competitors found a good way to bring you down

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So falsely reporting someone is fine in your book (in this case, a booster who is making sure to not break the ToS)? Okay buddy. The validity of the report depends on the ToS, not some people getting others silenced because they feel like it.

Then talk to Blizzard to remove WoW Tokens. Boosting existed before WoW Tokens, and it was just as popular as it is now.

Hehe, no, I’m not selling PvP boosts, but I do plan on getting into it at some point.

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I play on AD (although horde) and tbh it’s annoying when 3 or 4 boost sellers put their adverts up at the same time then you have guild adverts too and you can’t actually keep up with the chat that’s going on because your adverts take up 2-4 lines each :woman_shrugging:

That’s why you get reported, it’s a nuisance. You might do it once every 2/3 minutes but so do the other three or four boost sellers who are active at the same time and that’s not even on the populated faction.

Blizzard needs to either give you your own channel or just outright ban boosting if it won’t support it. (Just my opinion don’t hassle me over it)

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For what it’s worth, I’d like automatic bans to be a thing of the past, too. Maybe that’d actually help RBG’s become a desirable way to pursue competitive goals within PvP, once more.

We both know Blizzard will never remove the token. Getting you silenced, is a lot easier.

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and? a lot of people utterly hate boosters for the damage they do to the game.
All boosters are utterly hated by a large portion of wow player base.
You and all your ilk are utterly hated by a lot of the player base. Utterly hated for the destruction you bring to the game. You and all your kind are utterly hated.
Hated.
Welcome to reality

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