True, I often look back at such names like Admiral ‘Ripsnarl’ for example.
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People geniuenly getting upset is not fun, nor do I personally get any joy from watching Räbies have a meltdown.
For my part personally, I saw something I believed to be against the Naming Policies, argued my points, reported it as I saw fit/correctly and then shared the response to allow further discussion, while also sharing my own take on it. I would have done the same even if they had straight up told me in the ticket that “It is not violating our policies.”
I do however, don’t think OP is particularly geniune or serious about his plight, and if he truly is, I still believe that getting so distressed over not being able to name your character after a disease(or not even that, but told by people that they dissaprove) is rather strange.
To summarize things a bit: OP made some initial post, people took issue with his name and brought up they believed violated policies. His response was to immediatly double down, change the name and topic of the thread to be about what an amazingly creative, witty name it is, how truly amazing he is as a person for ever thinking it, and dismissing any criticism or discussion as trash or more.
And then following the ticket response, jumping straight to personal attacks and threats.
Edit: Leía and Krontan(& some others) did also say a thing that’s correct. Despite me thinking the GM’s response was very straightforward, we won’t ultimatly know anything until it is actually enforced, and if it does it is ONLY because they found the name to be in violation, and then he was completly in the wrong.
If nothing happens at all, then they did truly deem it to not be bad. Just because a name or person is reported, doesn’t automatically mean a punishment. Blizzard does geniuenly review all of it, so things like false reports if such exists have no effect on the system. Instead, Blizz tend to crack down on people abusing it poorly, not however people who report something they believe to be a bad thing.
Yeah precisely. Worgen have the same thing as Forsaken going on. Some of them keep “true names” (like yours seems to read, last name I assume?) whereas others adopt new names in case of worgen, referencing their new bestial identity, and Forsaken take on more morbid tones with theirs.
I mean one could easily say the Worgen hunter in this case was first brought into contact with civilised Gilnean worgen and “brought to his sense” upon being found meandering with a pack of rabid wolves in Silverpine. The name then becomes pretty apt, especially if the character has some form of Amnesia about their past life (I’m not sure if that’s a thing with Worgen based upon how long they’ve been feral?)
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Okay thank you prefect.
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You’re welcome. I see nothing wrong in speaking out or reporting things I believe to be in violation of the policies we are meant to adhere to to play the game+on this server.
Yeah, that’s not gonna fly. Aside from repeatedly breaking the CoC yourself by - and let’s list 'em for fun -
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“Insultingly refer to other characters, players, Blizzard employees, or groups of people”
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Result in ongoing harassment to other characters, players, Blizzard employees, or groups of people
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Causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters
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Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and a Game Master (GM)
You’ve literally spear-headed the effort to harass and upset this player - if you think he’s broken the CoC or the ToS, that’s fair enough. You’re supposed to hit the report or flag button and then move on. The only discussion that needs to be had is on Blizzard’s end.
But instead, you’ve repeatedly reminded and told this player that you’re reporting him - which serves no purpose other than to imply the threat of imminent consequences, and thus, make him afraid - hassled him constantly, degraded him constantly - let’s not forget that choosing the name Rabies is, according to you, not a harmless or misguided action, but apparently a complete and total condemnation of his character, considering how much “it says a lot about him as a person” - and generally acted in an extremely antagonistic way. This in turn has led to dozens of posters outright stating or implying he’s stupid, ridiculous, and - to be honest - far too many negative things to list in a single post, and, apparently, all for fun!
Now I could be wrong, but from the manner and style of his posts I’d speculate that Rabies is probably quite a young player. If that’s the case, then all you’ve been doing in this thread Vixi has been to the ends of harassing, intimidating and humiliating a minor.
And you legitimately think you’re a paragon of player conduct?
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Most definitely, yes.
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Something I’ve noticed is that people will use any excuse to put another down on the forums if via the rules or whatever they can come up with. It’s disheartening that things are like this but it’s how the forums are.
Sure, the GM agreed the name is breaking the rules but there isn’t a need to go this far. It should’ve been reported and then left at that.
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Well, you’re probably right there. She certainly seems to believe she’s got the moral authority to dispense judgement.
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I’m not sure that he does, since it looked like a boilerplate response to me. But of course posting that boilerplate response is a definite breach of the forum’s code of conduct.
Not entirely sure when I said I was a paragon of morality
right, like you refusing to apologize for spreading a doxx blog.
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Was referring to Vixi!
I like Vixi but they’re going to bed without dinner today.
Don’t know about Vixi, I was just saying that I myself am a paragon of player conduct.
I’ve hardly spearheaded any sort of harassement against against OP. I stated what I believed was violations of policies, and I did state I would report him openly yes, after he started acting in a very poor behaviour. If you believe I have done wrong, then go ahead and flag what you deem is not acceptable.
I thought publicly announcing that you will report or have reported someone is considered a threat against another player and falls under harrasment and breaking the CoC. Think I’ve read about this somewhere in another thread.
Rules for thee but not for me.
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I had forgotten about that thread entierly, but yeah I can admit that I have done wrong in publically saying about the report definatly.
You forgot the thread - did you forget the rules too? Because you’ve been throwing them at Rabies all night
Y’know what they say, if you can quote the rules you can obey them
Remember to say sorry for (in your own words) harassing, threatening and intimidating Rabies - since, apparently, that’s what announcing a report is!
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Let’s be honest it’s not about the nickname, he had the nerve to disagree with the egomaniacs ( we know who those are, starts with P ) and that’s why they’re bullying him.
The irony of a bunch of roleplayers trying to run a gym like they’re the PE teacher is lost, it seems.
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