Do you remember the title you got as a 30 minute debuff from the Bastion of Twilight raid “Slayer of Stupid, Incompetent, and Disappointing Minions”? Could Blizzard please make a title for players who have been silenced or banned recently for toxic in-game behavior, so that whenever we invite someone to, let’s say, a Mythic+ group, we could see that they have a title indicating we probably don’t want to play with them? For those who simply want to enjoy the game, I personally believe that if there were a title like that, it would make life a lot easier, because whenever there’s a person like that in a group, it usually ends with everyone leaving the dungeon and wasting a lot of time. I think it would be a fair penalty , maybe the debuff could last 30 days, or depend on how toxic the player was. What do you guys think? Yay or nay? Any different suggestions or an appropriate name for the title would be much appreciated, lol, k thx bye.
Blizzards reporting system is just a punchbag where the majority pile on to the minority atm.
If this was something where an actual person looked at reports and decided a reasonable person would find something over the line then sure. But it just isn’t that. It’s a weaponised system where people get silenced for disagreeing with the majority.
What a funny way to defend actual in-game weirdos & idiots.
In principle i agreed with him.
In practice it wouldn’t work.
There, i dumbed it down. Can you follow it now?
What you “dumbed down” isn’t what you claimed but ok. My opinion: just be a normal, decent human being and you wont get silenced, it’s that easy.
Thats your opinion.
Meantime the facts are that people say things that are completely innocuous and get banned. Its a flawed system.
Source of your facts?
Go to general, you can see some threads where people have had bans overturned because they were autobanned on baseless mass reports.
Do you mean the general discussion header? Your facts are based on anecdotes from some threads people open & post in that? You cannot be serious. You know full well any player can post some made-up nonsense in there.
Yea, I totally just read the “I got banned and I did nuffin” posts and don’t look at them critically / accepted it mindlessly.
Do me a favour, read what I wrote, you keep seeing what you want to see and if you’re going to carry on doing that you may as well speak to yourself.
Your original statement sounds like that’s what you did, and you fell for it. Well, have fun crying over Blizzard’s “weaponised reporting system” in which “people get silenced for disagreeing with the majority”. That’s a very normal thing to do.
Again, read whats said, not what pops into your head at the time.
I’m not complaining about the system, just saying that the OP’s idea is poor given the state of it.
If jumping to the wrong conclusions was an Olympic Sport you’d be a shoe in for a medal.
The way you respond is weird and not reasonable. If you cannot see what’s wrong with “it’s a weaponised system where people get silenced for disagreeing with the majority”, which is not only devoid of any facts, but also most likely being used as a talking point by someone with a victim mentality, you are lost.
I’ve pointed out that there are threads on this very forum where people have been auto banned because of this and had it overturned on appeal. If you think thats “devoid of facts” then I’m not sure what would qualify as a fact in your little bubble.
Well we also have the US CS forums where this opinion is repeatedly refuted by factual reviews by Blizzard.
Such a thread would be:
Where the OP claimed he got banned by an “automated system” but after review it was found he was banned for putting kinks in his TRP3 profile and the penalty stands.
After that thread got closed down for other reasons, he made a new one doubling down it was “automated” again because of templated replies whilst it was evidently well reasoned by the GM’s reviewing and the CSFR checking it over again here:
And some further deflection by claiming it was OK’d by the community, that he was ill, that Blizzard should first reach out to warn them (again) and some more other excuses.
So it boils down to: No it’s not automated from what I’ve seen with the amount of bull the OP’ve been spewing and the manual work that went into investigating this.
@OP: After someone has served an actual written penalty I don’t think it is a good idea as that may make rejoining the community harder. It’s like wearing a prisoner’s uniform when you’ve served time essentially. I’m not a fan of the various debuff systems in the game either and that they should be more… Hidden for the penalised player only you see. But that’s my 0.02 pence.
Are you telling me silences arent automated based on the number of reports? Thats what im saying.
There was also a thread recently in general where someone was banned. 2x4 groups got mad he was skinning ‘their’ stuff and mass reported.
He got banned and it got overturned.
Yes, but there’s a difference between disagreeing with someone and being rude or abusive just because you disagree. Also, as others have mentioned, the report system isn’t automated, there are real people reviewing each case before making a decision about silencing or banning someone. So if a player was silenced or banned, there must have been a valid reason for it. In my opinion, the “punishment title” would be an extended consequence that might make people think twice before typing. Being in a group is about teamwork, there are four other players who also have real life chores or jobs to deal with, and they don’t have time for trolling or toxic behavior. If someone has a history of that kind of behavior, I’d personally prefer to know before starting the game. If I see the title, I can simply uninvite them and pick someone else who actually wants to play, not troll.
I just ignore them, either literally, or /ignore if it starts to bother me.
Thanks for your response. I see your point. I guess my experience with toxicity in game is a bit different since I enjoy pvp more, the abuse I have witnessed has also intoxicated me sometimes, so the prisoner’s uniform for some people would be fitting. Either way, if there was a punishment like this, I think it should also be carefully reviewed and there should be a good reason for receiving it. In the end, the goal wouldn’t be to punish everyone but to make the game more enjoyable especially for new players, as in life so in game there are some really bad apples who should receive the harshest penalties. Sorry for my English mates.
So the findings of people who tested this system by having people mass-report them on purpose are false? The fact that bot armies are mass reporting people when they interfere with their botting is false too?