Removal of spit made a difference for me. Realistically RP is a minority interest (nothing wrong with RPing), and the bulk of the playerbase used it to be unpleasant rather than in situ for playing out some fantasy.
Personally it’s been more positive not having spit. The forums regularly had upset over being spat on. All that is gone.
On my tik tok feed I have a creator that comes up regularly which is about ‘what do they do in film that is historically incorrect and really annoys you’, or that kind of gist. It’s been interesting to see some of the answers.
Yeah but instead you get this thread, so… /shrug
For me it didn’t. The means of communication is arbitrary - the intention, the feeling, is the only thing that matters. I don’t care if someone is seething with rage or shouting at me. It’s all the same…
EDIT: But I know not everybody else sees it that way, so I don’t tend to go ballistic; generally because it doesn’t help anyway. I assume the best until I can no longer do so, then ignore or leave.
That is the adult thing to do. Its what I do too. And that is what should be encouraged for people to do. Not to rely on “Daddy Blizz” to fix our feelings.
Im against any intervention on part of “Daddy Blizz” because one day, they will intervene on things that are not so clearly negative as is /spit. As they are doing now with /fart. I don’t want any more precedents here.
That is for adults. For minors we got language filters, ignore buttons… all kinds of tools for parents to filter the game to a level which they believe is appropriate.
Me too to be honest !
This thread is about farting! 
We get far less of these, after people got over the initial changes news, than we did with spit.
Funniest spit screenshot I remember seeing was complaining about how the Alliance struggled to quest in WM on in Nazjatar and being spat on when they were dead by Horde. The reason it amused me was because no one at the time realised the DH they were complaining about in the screenshots was in my guild.
He wasn’t breaking the rules or doing anything wrong ofc. But it upset other players. Many will remember that we needed WM on for AP gain. Yes yes people can turn it off.
The removal of a lot of rather innocent jokes from the game would be exactly that, which they did at the same time, so…
Oh, yeah! 
The text they actually found offensive was “brushes up against you”.
They did a lot of things at once.
People will ragebait, what can I say. They WILL find a way.
I presume fart was changed back with all the other emotes.
There were so many changes discovered it was hard to keep up, changes to voice lines, renamed items, abilities etc.
Yeah, it was.
It was a larger effort to remove any sort of reference to a potentially unwanted advance of any kind, but it didn’t really work… because of course it didn’t…
You wanna know what makes me flip my table? The fact that half of the arena matches I did a few weeks ago (quit again lol) had a cheater in it. Or how every 2nd time I do solo shuffle somebody gets flamed, and every time somebody is talked about behind their back.
Not /spit, and definitely not /fart. “X brushes up against Y and farts loudly” isn’t even suggestive or anything, it’s clearly meant for joking…
I want them to get rid of these frictions and annoyances that are really not needed in the service of gameplay or community, not chiding people for getting upset when they happen… 
Player vs player in any game seems to be the most toxic environment.
In Overwatch I’ve resorted to hiding text chat in addition to opting out of voice chat. It does tilt me in that environment so now I’m blissfully unaware and my enjoyment increased. I don’t care if the tank blames me for diving in with no health and then screams at me that I’m not healing them, because I can’t see their stupid ramblings. I also don’t have to see all the vile racism and other things I used to report every game.
At higher level you need to be able to communicate with your team but I’m just casual so it’s fine.
I’ve played a lot of games competitively
SC2: Very little toxicity, the loser often says “GG” when leaving, pleasant chats afterwards sometimes as well
MSFS Reno Air Races: lots of banter afterwards
Heroes 3: Full of poles tbh… not much happens… xD
Homeworld: Tiny but very lovely community :3
Civilization: Banter going back and forth as you’re crushing your enemy :'D
WoW PvP though… and LoL. Lord almighty…
Why? I’m really not sure.
But what I know for certain is: Removing male/female to get rid of genders did not change anything, introducing the new rule popup thing did not change anything, removing /spit or /fart did not change anything. So… yeah.
Adding Solo Shuffle increased it. That’s the main takeaway for me.
Wasn’t that bad because after that, we would just read some sweet little bedtime stories and fairytales for the kids. you know, cute stories like…
So grandma got eaten by a wolf…
Just cut open his belly put some rocks in there and drown the fool.
Hey yo, I was able to pick this lock with the bones of the previous victims that got eaten by this canibal witch, lets escape and burn her alive…
Let me cut of my own toe to see if i can fit in this slipper then, ow whats that, a bunch of cute white doves that come to pick out my eyes…
No one thinking bout bambi anymore after cute fairytales like that lol
That was one instance. /spit was kind of gross so I didn’t mind it being removed but didn’t care that much.
And the complaints were more about the organised insulting of certain players by an “influencer”. Had Assmon decided to organise yelling something at those players the complaints would have been the same. Doubt bliz would have remove /y though.
Nobody complained about being farted on.
Nobody complained about the lady in the painting, 99.99% of players didn’t even know it existed.
These removals were not about woke snowflake players.
I mean, I found that hysterical, and I’d laugh hard if everyone started doing that emote on me. The problem is that people are taking the game WAY too seriously. I never found that emote even the tiniest bit offensive, or any other emote that is.
So because we don’t see heaps of blood, just a dead name on the corpse, it’s… fine? It’s a whole lot worse brutally killing someone and setting them on fire (fire mage, etc), than seeing a harmless emote. If anything I found that emote funny when used on me.
Don’t get me started on Disney… They’ve turned completely woke as well.
Not really the point. It didn’t need removing in the first place, especially since is has 0 impact on you.
And if you unalive someone, it’s murder, what’s your point? If anything this game’s promoting violence. 
But you sad it was insignificant?
So the people that find even the smallest thing offensive cried about it, and won.
Tik-tok… I can’t stand that app and the people on it.
We live in a mad world where so many things are being changed to stop the possible chance of offending someone. The world’s gone completely weak. These silly little things that actually made people laugh are gone, so some form of enjoyment has gone, just to stop hurting peoples feelings.
It just seems to get worse and worse, and I fear for the future.
plz no. jfc
Pretty sure you can type /me and then anything you want to create options that don’t blizzard doesn’t provide.
E.g. /me Offers a cookie to example user
However make sure that you aren’t doing anything against the code of conduct whenever you communicate in game, let’s make WoW friendly for all players.
in a very toxic game environment. i can’t see that happening in the long run just because you removed emotes xD
You can but it’s not the point.
Doing that would change so many more things. You can’t make everyone happy / friendly.
Neither can I, but owing to the pleasant folks I met in classic, it should be possible when I play retail also.
It’s exactly the point, if you and your friends want to communicate in ways that don’t use the standard slash commands, you can, provided it doesn’t go against the code of conduct.
You don’t want people to have the option of consent?