So, I was just selling my boosting service for gold exclusively in trade chat and I got silenced after announcing twice with several minutes in between.
This is the reply I get from Support - prntscr . com/nbf6s2
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Why is this automatic feature in the game?
EDIT: I’ve been squelched 8 times within 2 days and it’s been removed 8 times. CS telling me to either find a way to avoid advertising in trade or continue to make a new ticket to get the silence removed.
Because
1: 2 times in a minute. do that for a longer period and the trade chat will look heavily spammed by you as nobody ever uses the trade chat nowadays
2: people are generally not big fans of boost sellers
The reaosn is most likely number one. People got fed up with you after a while and reported you. causing you to get muted
It was on Argent Dawn, someone new will advertise something else every 5 - 10sec, there is no way you’d be able to see my previous advertisement, even with the maximum sized chat window.
It’s not a perfect system but if I’m honest the game wasn’t poorer for you not being able to advertise your boost services.
there is your problem
Enough people have to report you to trigger the auto silence so either you were spamming chat and annoyed enough people or other boosters reported you to hush the competition.
Without being there I can’t say which it was, taking you at face value it would appear to be the second option though.
It still takes a number of reports to activate it and my guess is it’s designed to quickly deal with toxic behaviour, if you get wrongly silenced then you can have it over turned easily via a ticket which is the lesser of two evils when you think the alternative is to have a moderator look into and investigate each report which will take time and could leave the toxic person who needs to be silenced for too long.
Does it work as intended? Of course not, moderation on a platform like an mmo needs 24/7 GMs watching every chat channel on every server and I doubt it’s financially viable.
The ability to silence people with no penalty for abuse is BEGGING to be abused.
Silencing a player who wasn’t breaking ToS because you didn’t like what he said? Yeah that seems healthy.
My question will be a bit off topic but how legal is this boosting service .the other day I contacted the support and they told me that anything besides the service offered by blizzard is illegal and can get the account banned . Whether the payment is in gold or money or other .
Legal enough to get the penalty removed.
try keeping the spam to once every 5 minutes and then you should generally be safe
Then your support had no idea what he has been talking about (like alot of them). Boosting for gold or any other ingame currency is perfectly legal on every side. Boosting for irl money is strictly forbidden
You are just not allowed to advertize your boosting service via the LFG tool. And thats one of the few things i agree on.
I am. Second squelch the GM told me to either find another way to find people or keep contacting them to get it removed.
Might be so .I will contact them again just in case to be clear about it .
My point regarding alot of blizzards GMs stands
Ty very much for The link
The system works!!! (some of the time.)
The GM should not have overturned this (imo).
Good reason to report all ‘boosters’. Clean up chat.
Good to read reporting them for spam actually works.
Seeing the same line whenever you enter Trade-chat is incredibly annoying. And then 2/3 times within a minute or 2, ugh.
No it doesnt. It gets overturned if its not really spam.
What this shows is the fragility of this system. All it takes is a big enough bored group of players to silence harass who they wish.
Meanwhile GMs get busy overturning false flags while players that need assistance wait longer for it.
If this automated system is to someday be somewhat decent first there needs to be repercussions on false reports
In this cast I wouldn’t call it false.
It is false, since Blizzard doesn’t see boosting for in-game stuff as “against the rules”. Doesn’t matter how the playerbase feels about it, it’s ultimately down to Blizzard.
It’s the same as multiboxing. Selling boosts earn Blizzard money, so they don’t care. I’m betting the majority of people who pay for said boosts buy WoW tokens, so it essentially goes into Blizzards pocket, so they won’t do anything about it.