I…laughed way too hard at this and I shouldn’t have…
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Now go back and re-read the conversation I had with that person. He(?) himself said he got hit with a Hockey stick during school. Was merely using his example to make a counterpoint about “people being too weak-skinned these days”.
If you find that behavior unacceptable, yes.
And that’s the point where you carried it officially too far buddy. From the point of reason to absolute exaggeration.
We are talking about player-influenced behavior, not the game itself.
The game doesn’t use /spit on you when you get killed in a Battleground. That’s what the opponent does, maybe alongside spamming the sit-emote (that is also animated, unlike /spit).
The game doesn’t use /fart on you when you talk to another player in the game. That’s what another player is doing perhaps. Not the game.
Point is, player behavior that is not appropriate shouldn’t be and isn’t encouraged. That’s why nude/vulgar names are against the CoC ingame, insults via chat too. And when Blizzard decides “hey, a few of our official emotes aren’t in line with our own CoC, we better go adjust them for the future”, then that’s their decision, not ours.
It doesn’t matter if you think…
…or not. If Blizzard doesn’t want them to be used in that way anymore, it’s their game.
Are you quite sure he made the argument that being hit by a hockey stick is the same as having a bit of text showing up that someone spat at you in a video game?
There is no mucus, no animation at all, you can /ignore it and it actually goes away, it isn’t real, you can’t feel it, there’s no risk of infection (the evolutionary reason we don’t like being spat on is risk of swallowing other people’s bacteria).
It’s pretend-rude. That’s all it is. You can pretend that it’s the end of the world if you’d like, but I think you’re really taking it too personally and too far.
The game even allows you to make an event filter that can remove whatever you want, /spit included:
Now, the fact that I have never seen anyone make an addon that actually does something like this I really do consider to be the ultimate expression of just how tiny this problem was. How much you’re blowing it out of all proportion. If it really upset you that badly, why didn’t you write that addon? I think I could write it in a couple of hours if I wanted to, but even if you knew nothing about LUA, it’d be something that took days at most.
PS: Come to think of it, you might be able to use BadBoy for this. It was intended to stop the spam, but it should work for this, too.
If I find behaviour unacceptable I will walk away from that person, probably forever; and that’s it.
Once you know what it feels like to be in a truly horrifying situation, and you get over it, these sorts of things just can’t hurt anymore. Like I’m sorry, getting a /spit in WoW really doesn’t do much to me after (snip, I can’t leave this up… jeeze 
)
Now that’s something you can’t walk away from. That’s serious. /spit? /ignore. lol
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See for yourself:
Now imagine if it weren’t even necessary at all. The changes to the emotes are a form of pre-caution. So that trolls, bullies and toxic people can’t even abuse them in general.
This is unachievable. Even in Hearthstone, early on, when you only had 6 possible chat messages you could send, the community decided on one being for flaming, and then rude people would spam that at the end of the game to wind you up.
I swear to God, if the only thing humans could do was rock their ears in clockwise and counter-clockwise motions, humanity would find a way to say “clockwise good, counter-clockwise bad” and take offense if someone who just stole their deer carcass rocked their ears counter-clockwise.
Give up.
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Carried it too far? Says whom, you? Is it you taking everything on the internet too seriously? It is you who’s taking it too far to think that such small things is considered offensive. Bit hypocritical of you to say…
You have 0 clue about how I felt growing up. I had it VERY tough, but you know what? I know how to have a laugh, I don’t let ridiculously small things like emotes make me cry or upset me. Quite frankly, people that are offended by such things need to grow up. 
Please don’t assume my gender, that’s very insulting!
Just because people can be D-s on the internet doesn’t mean they should be. People have to pay sub to play this game and I am definitely not paying 12,99€ per month to get insulted/annoyed via emotes like /spit and /fart in a video game from toxic people (which btw. isn’t a thing for me because I don’t play on a PvE realm).
That’s not what I pay for. That’s not what others pay for.
If you prefer so harsh online environments, feel free to go play Call of Duty (or similar games) and speak to the children playing it because their parents don’t care that the game(s) their children are playing are PEGI 18. You would wonder how quickly they will be saying they “[redacted] your [redacted]” and such via the ingame voice chat. If that’s the experience you want, there are already games that offer this for you.
Ahahaha, good one. Weren’t YOU the one complaining the emotes got changed in the first place?
That’s rich coming from you, telling me to “not get offended by emotes”. What’s coming next? You telling us Blizzard should change all emotes and quest texts in WoW that imply a player characters gender because it offends you?
Remember when I told you this?
Apparently not, it seems. Otherwise you literally wouldn’t care by your own words. But you do. Should I now also get “offended” every time someone refers to me on the forums here as “she” instead of “he” just because I play female characters? 
Are you for real? Out of everything this game has to offer, you feel like you’re paying for a sub purely for the emotes… I don’t know whether you’re trolling or not, because you can’t be serious. Does emotes really make you want to not play WoW, do they really offend you so much… 
You know what we pay for? The game, the things we do on the game, and yes, emotes is one of them. It’s funny you think toxic people use /fart n such emotes. How does using those emotes make someone toxic.
Because farting online is brutally harsh, and very traumatizing, my god…
I shared my opinion and it’s completely different. I never had issues with emotes, and don’t understand why they’d get rid / change them. Big difference.
I guess you aren’t familiar with the word “sarcasm”.
Grow up bro.
You know what? I have better things to do than argue senseless with you, wasting my time.
You were the one “sharing your opinion” by making a semi-complaint post of emote changes done 3 years ago. You were the one annoyed that you can’t use certain emotes on players anymore after Blizzard decided 3 years ago that they need a change.
It’s surely not me here who has the issues the game.
Of course you do lol.
Did I ever say I was annoyed? Stop making assumptions. Stay woke.
1 word: snowflakes. My priest name is: himmler yes yes i know u are going to be offended.
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I had to Google that. I’m too young to be offended by it, I had no idea why it would be offensive.
Your twitter posts must be so full of emotions right now. 
Hopefully people are sending lots of positive vibes, energy and prayers.
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I’m literally shaking rn.
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Woke is the most misused phrase atm.
Anything anyone doesn’t like in a game must be WOKE!
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Also OP farting and spitting isn’t illegal IRL. Why don’t you and your pals just do a meat up IRL and fart and spit on each other? It’s not like Blizzard or anyone can stop you.
It’s not though. Woke = easily offended. If you easily get offended by a simple emote, like farting, then that’s completely woke.
But it doesn’t mean that at all.
I guess I rest my case 
These should be brought back