"All it takes" as if 40 people reporting something for their own gain or because some youtube personality told them to aren't outlier situations, and as if the silence wasn't reversed.
It's not a reason to scrap the system. It may need tweaks and adjustment - and hopefully everybody who reported him now has a black mark on their record that will eventually lead to repercussions if they continue to abuse it - but the idea is good.
Wrong.
If there was just one. ONE. GM actually looking at it properly, this wouldn't have happened.
Instead, we have GMs who don't care, or perhaps contrary to what Blizzard indicated, maybe there is NO investigation.
It would be VERY easy to have just 1 GM checking the reports, and when someone is found to be abusing that report system, that person gets BLOCKED from using the report system AND SILENCED as punishment, for an extended period of time.
If this was done, then there would be nearly no fake reports, it would make the job easy for GMs and improve the community as a whole.
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Why did you create a new thread? Use the search function and post in existing threads!
Why did you necro a thread?
Did you miss where it disconnects you?
39 is the max needed. It could be even less, like 20, but it's really not that unlikely when it comes to gold especially.
And nowhere did I say to scrap the system, I just said it shouldn't be this abusable.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Disconnects you from what? According to bliz:
Silenced Players Are Able to:
Whisper to friends (both WoW friends and Battle.net Friends)
Reply to Whispers from Non-friends
Party/Raid Chat (with Invited Players)
Create Parties and Raids
Talk in Global Channels that have a moderator
Share Quests
Sign up for a pre-made group
And it certainly can't disconnect anyone from vent.
That is not feasible. The system is obviously designed with the idea that somebody who is doing something that gets a lot of reports all at once, such as spewing vitriol in trade chat, doesn't get to keep doing that until a GM has time to deal with it.
Now, I could agree that a situation where a player has been squelched should become a high priority for a GM to look into, but I really doubt Blizzard has the manpower to babysit trade chat and still deal with all the other tickets they receive in a timely manner.
The best solution would be for everybody to just learn to behave, but many people refuse to do so and thus, this is what we get.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
But some people aren't going to see that no matter what you tell them. This is absolutely as horrible as anyone predicted silence penalty would be.
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Well then the system is broken and it should be axed.
Seriously what part of this system is not capable of doing what it was designed to do at all and will almost certainly be abused do you not comprehend? Of course players are going to use this to try to get any kind of advantage they possibly can or just to grief other players. That's why this isn't gonna fly.
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Haha, oh man this is pathetic. I thought Blizzard would've been able to devise a program that was review first, action second -- not automated without any actual thought put behind it. I said before that LoL was the worst, but if all you have to do is mass report -- this system is absolutely fucked.
this is actually really shitty, this guy has helped thousands of players get their moose, no questions asked, just watch him raid on twitch helping other people and be ready to join the next group. not to mention all the people helping him carry the people...
blizz needs to do better with this punishment system. I like the punishment but not how its being implemented.
Ill be honest man, I didnt think this would happen. When I first saw the silence penalty announcement I was actually a bit excited to see some new stuff come in, Ive been on stormreaver forever and Ive seen some shit in trade chat and those same people say the same retarded shit every day, so I figured this would fix that.
Oh man, I cant believe how wrong I was there. I honestly hope they scrap the system or do something to fix this issue if they even can. Would require a lot of manpower from the GMs. I could see them scrapping it more than I can see them hiring more GMs to look through the penalties.
You know I just have to laugh because I was debating this last night in the silence penalty thread and was told I was stupid, needed to go back to school etc. because I was "overestimating how much this would be abused" well this seems like a perfect example of my "Doomsday Scenario" just glad to see that he got this stupid "decision" reversed.
Oh for sure but so far it just seems people are using it to be utter twats. I'm all for getting rid of goldsellers and shit but this system is crap. Remove it ASAP because asking this community to police itself is like asking a load of traffic wardens to deal with an inner city riot.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
I think we the people should volunteer to help Blizzard moderate their new system. They are clearly understaffed.
the system is going to be abused. just the nature of the game