Prior to Dragonflight, actually prior to 2024, I have never experienced anything like this either, and as mentioned, my account is from 2007. Even in the degenerate chat I was partaking in, there was no toxicity, no one being rude or using slurs. I never got a warning, I’m guessing those have also been removed from the budget. I’ve never experienced receiving a warning in any Blizzard game before, so I didn’t know it was a possibility.
Oh well!
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when people mass reported me on forums you all laughed. i got so many random bans 
now you can experience the same
that is completely different, because you usually have nothing to say
On topic though: Yes. Communication in game and Blizzards “AUTO DETECTION” is really bad. If you ever communicate in game you are more likely to get suspended than someone who is non-communicating and trolls everyone all the time.
The second you call this troll out, you might just get mass reported.
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losers abuse the report system. The same thing happens here
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9/10 threads like these leave out important details to look like the victim
Don’t you just hate getting reported for slurs when that’s basically all the contract says. They refuse to punish the real perps anyway
Ikr you literally get flagged for disagreeing with the masses
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But I’m not! And I do sometimes get into trouble for it (though only on the forums).
We hear about this every other day at this point. Someone has been banned and they’re not entirely sure why. They can think of something that maybe perhaps was a little hostile but they really have to wrack their brain to figure out who might have reported them, not even what they did wrong.
Blizzard’s moderation policies are BY FAR the most toxic element in this game. It’s not even close. It’s becoming really hard to find loosely knit communities where people can be themselves.
And the worst part is, they keep making systems that frustrate people as well, causing a pressure cooker that somehow most people keep under control anyway, only for Blizzard to ban them anyway - and lords almighty what happens when the pressure cookie does finally blow its lid.
Quite right, quite right. But I’m gonna keep commenting in these threads because I know exactly what the OP is talking about, and it’s really inappropriate what is going on.
I would like to make Blizzard aware of the fact that, in the EU, it will soon be illegal for them to terminate contracts (which is what a ban is) without receipts. In other words, in order for them to ban you for language, they MUST be able to provide a chatlog of said language and explain to you in clear language which part of the ToS you were in violation of. Writing “The game has not been sold and we can take away everything in the blink of an eye at any time for any reason” will no longer be a legal defence.
It’s part of the EU’s push to harmonize these rules across the EU and offer more legal protections for consumers. It will no longer be legal to offer apparent purchase of a movie and then remove the movie from people’s library, as an example, or to use DRM schemes which then break, breaking the game with it. So Microsoft better be prepared for how they’re going to handle forced battle.net integration if they ever close down Blizzard and/or battle.net. Or how they’re going to handle the death of WoW (which will happen one day) and making sure we can still play it.
This is gonna be fun.
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Make a GDPR request for ALL information they hold on you, it will has to include all GM notes. They have to provide this or face very, very large fines.
Not for me in the UK. Thanks Brexit.
GDPR (which was actually a British initiative, so this was the UK setting EU laws but the Brexiters never would admit to that) came in before Brexit and as far as I know it was never removed from UK law.
I don’t know who enforces it now though, a UK court maybe?
In the UK it would be the Information Commissioner’s Office. It would be the data authority in the country Blizzard is registered in, which, i think, is the UK now.
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/
Edit: looks like it might be Ireland. I wouldn’t hold any hope, Ireland is effectively a tax haven.
## 1. Who is processing your information?
**Blizzard Entertainment Ireland Limited** is the data controller for the processing of your personal information, a registered company located at Blackpool Retail Park, Co. Cork, Cork, Ireland. For the performance of certain games and platform services, your information is controlled by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., One Blizzard Way, Irvine, CA 92618-3616, USA. Contact information for the Data Protection Officer, for both of these companies, is located in the last section of this document.
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OP remember the Blizzard mantra.
“Guilty until proven innocent, but you’ll never prove your innocence because that would require some work on our end.”
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Brexit will not prevent this. Do you really think they’re going to single out the British and treat them worse?
Especially given the fact that the UK often copy-paste everything the EU does anyway.
Brexit never prevented the UK from cooperating with the EU nor was doing that ever the goal of the “Brexiteers”. The goal of divorcing from the EU was that the EU should not be able to force compliance, and also that the EU was damaging UK industry and wasn’t a democratic institution.
All of that is completely true. The question is whether these drawbacks are worth the benefits being in the EU does bring. The citizens of the UK decided the answer to that is no, and I’m quite certain they wouldn’t be alone if other groups of people were actually allowed to vote on the matter.
But regardless - in the meantime the EU is making these laws and Blizzard will have to respect them. Whether the EU is a good or a bad thing is not relevant to that particular discussion.
GDPR is implemented in the UK as the The Data Protection Act. You are fully covered.
Unfortunately courts have, as usual, proven ineffective and above all else hilariously slow in this matter. Basically half the internet is in violation of the GDPR, usually through non-compliant cookie banners created by Admiral incidentally, and the courts do absolutely nothing. They violate the rights of 500 million people yet not one person seems to have the resources and time to devote to taking Admiral down.
Quite remarkable, really - and of course calls into question what I said earlier regarding the right to keep our purchased digital content as our own.
Nevertheless, some of these companies are no doubt nervous.
Yeah I think that this is not the case.
You admitted yourself in the post that you take part is weird conversations and make passive aggressive remarks. Considering that you wrote this, I suspect that you are painting yourself in a better picture, so bliz that went through the chat logs must have a reason to suspend you.
On the other hand, I think that having anxiety over this will pass through.
If one think the toxicity of LoL taught me, is that it is pretty easy to avoid getting banned/reported. You can communicate normally without a problem, but when someone is trying to be offensive/start argument, just act like chat does not exist.
I cannot understate the power of just ignoring people and not interacting with trolls/aggressive players.
Explain how the EU is not a democratic institution. It had members of it’s parliament elected by the British public. The Council of Ministers are representatives from each (elected) state’s government, and states nominate people to the European Commission.
When people say it’s not democratic it’s pure ignorance.
Whereas the House of Lords…
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The parliament can’t propose legislation, it can only vote on it. The commissioner is appointed by the government of each state, not elected, and they need to approval of the commission itself as well. Typically people have no idea who this is going to be. As far as I can tell there is no term length or limit, nor to the amount of terms even if they had a length. I guess the government can appoint a new one? Though probably not - if the commission is happy with the one they’ve got they’ll just reject anybody who is being appointed. They can effectively cover for one another indefinitely.
About the best the parliament can do is halt them. Hold up/delay laws. They basically do a game of thumbs-up-thumbs-down dozens of times in a single session. None of the elected representatives has any idea what’s going on, and generally they will appoint others to figure out what they should vote for, having no idea whether they agree with the proposed legislation themselves. If you’ve seen EU legislative text, you’ll understand why.
The Danish commissioner, who is quite famous for her consumer protection laws incidentally, was very unpopular in Denmark. She was soundly rejected in multiple elections. There is no way on planet Earth that she would’ve been elected to such a powerful position by the will of the Danish people, that much I can guarantee to you.
The EU is also a very confusing institution. There are A LOT of committees and bodies with confusingly similar names.
I’m not saying the EU is bad, exactly, but democratic it is definitely not.
Or it’s because AD is one of the few servers left in wow that’s actually social.
But that is democracy. They might not do what you want but they’ll do what the majority want. People struggle with the meaning of democracy things it means they get their own way.
Neele Kroes something wasn’t it. The European Commission has been the only institution to take on the big American companies. If it wasn’t for the EC we’d probably still be using internet explorer.
People in the UK didn’t understand much of our consumer/employee protections derived from EU law and regs.
The EU wasn’t protected, never will be but it was as democratic as it could be. Unfortunately one of it’s biggist issues was it was too democratic, some members states preventing some much ended reforms for their own selfish needs.
About as democratic as you can get.
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Democracy is not doing what the people want. By that definition a benevolent king is a democracy.
Democracy means you elect your leaders. We don’t. It’s that simple.
Yes, like the benevolent kings they have been. I’m not saying they’re doing a bad job, I’m saying it’s not democratic. Those are different things, and you’ve got my position backwards!
Too democratic my backside.
As we both stated MEPs are elected and Council of Ministers are usually elected people from each members state, ie a Secretary of state or similar thing, and each government nominates for the commission.
If you think of the European commission as the EU civil service, in the UK people don’t elect the civil service.
It’s unrealistic to elect everyone, in the UK, European elections were basically ignored by the majority of people, that’s why some people could be MEPs but rejected as MPs. In the UK people had no idea what the EU was, they only seen the headlines of how much our fair share was. Now people are starting to understand.
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