Blizz and their forum drama queens

[Forgettable]

Oh noes! I got banned! And now I must go to another forum to whine about it, and then tell people I'm not actually whining about it, because they'll totally believe that guys!!

[The King in Yellow]

I'm going to have to agree with quite a few others - you're being a drama queen on here over your ban.

Exactly... which brings another point: Hypocrisy of the blizzard and MMO forums! (Yes I just had to)

Yes some bans are fails on Blizz's part but a lot of bans I have seen, especially in this thread, I would accept.

But hey, some people just think they're special and they can just curl around the rules and such, aah well.

[judgementofantonidas]

Whoa...

Hmmmm.

damnit. sarah kierrigan isnt a real person

[BloodGutter]

I got banned for a week two years ago for saying "Mike Morhaime" needs to drop dead after letting in that stupid butt head singer or whatever it was into BlizzCon 2011 and allow him to do what he did....I said drop dead...but also put in just kidding along with my statement...it didn't go over well...on the thread that supposedly Mike Morhaime had put up about a say sorry too the alliance players for that singers lack of regard to whom was at blizzcon that year....that how the singer was just kidding with his insults...well I was kidding too but that didn't work too well for me lol....

getting offended by a clip of George Fisher (that "butt head singer") taken from a metal fest interview trash talking Alliance in a video game that's all about which side is better and then proceeding to jokingly wish the person who runs the company dies. yeah, totally the same.

[Gandrake]

Until you have that happen stop being a drama queen and whining about being banned OP.

i got banned for making an @day thread the day swifty crashed his server just because i mentioned his name

i had other offenses, but that is still pretty absurd

But yeah

If you're over the age of 15 and below the age of 40 and you haven't been banned from the WoW forums yet, you're doing something wrong. Some of us just don't have any appreciation for the concept of being politically correct.

Moral of the Story:

Don't use the World of Warcraft Forums to discuss anything but theorycrafting, helping people who need it, and making useless night elf hugging threads. If you are pursuing anything else, there's a pretty good chance you will be banned.

[The King in Yellow]

i got banned for making an @day thread the day swifty crashed his server just because i mentioned his name

i had other offenses, but that is still pretty absurd

But yeah

If you're over the age of 15 and below the age of 40 and you haven't been banned from the WoW forums yet, you're doing something wrong. Some of us just don't have any appreciation for the concept of being politically correct.

Moral of the Story:

Don't use the World of Warcraft Forums to discuss anything but theorycrafting, helping people who need it, and making useless night elf hugging threads. If you are pursuing anything else, there's a pretty good chance you will be banned.

I must be doing something wrong then....

[icausewipes]

This guys got it right. You got a 30 day ban for that it looks like? I once got a week ban for some hate filled paragraph about the terrible terrible things I would do to Sarah Kerrigans ass with a dildo (I might not have been of sound mind). I'm confused as to how yours was worse than what I did. The rules on it are somewhat sketchy (it = those forums)

Im pissed I did not go out with a bigger bang after getting the perma ban.

edit-

had to google that name under my super secret profile that no one else could see.

[xanzul]

I would think it was because of the word you get when you replace the K with a C. A not so subtle masking of profanity if I ever saw one. It's a fairly common swear so I would think that the people who get the reports on profanity should be expected to know it.

Ever think to consider the fact that GMs get so many tickets for name violations that aren't actually violations so often that sometimes it can be easy to let a legitimate one slip by?

---------- Post added 2013-03-22 at 10:21 PM ----------

that has to be the epitome of how hypocritical blizzard employees are. There is a big blue sticky about harrassment and real lift threats however if you mention the person's name in any manner you will get banned for invading "their privacy".

Blizzard isn't hypocritical at all. They consider naming and shaming to be harassment regardless of who did what. Harassing the person harassing you doesn't make it any less of a violation. It isn't necessary because Blizzard doesn't handle in game violations through the forums and only accept complaints about violations through tickets and the new reporting system.

[SodiumChloride]

To be blunt, I don't get blizzard's bans.

I have been banned like 3 times now over the silliest of things.

One was over the use of the term "fucked up" in a post about video game level design as in "the player fucked up". Just today, I got banned from some post in which I argued with two other people. I was never insulting or called anyone names, granted I wasn't 100% "nice" (it's an argument for heaven sakes) ... banned for "trolling/spamming".

I keep walking into these bans and I don't know why! I give up.

[spectrefax]

GMs are not developers. They don't fix bugs and they don't take suggestions and they don't direct feedback to the developers. GMs send players to the forums because that is the correct place for players to give their feedback and make suggestions. What makes the official forums terrible are entitled players like you who think their word is god and being a paying customer means if you want it Blizzard has to give it to you. Well here is a little hint: we are ALL paying customers. Just because you want something doesn't mean you should get it and certainly not over something someone else wants who again is also a paying customer too.

The forums are filled with constructive threads with very little trolling or abuse but that is because the people who make those threads start off on the right foot by speaking for themselves only and without throwing a temper tantrum or insulting others or making irrational demands.

When did I say ANY of that? That I want anything? Please, show me in my post where I said I was tired of not being heard or getting what I want. Stop talking out of your ass and trolling just to try and start shit. If you wanna do that, head to WoW general with the rest of the trolls.

Oh, Just recognized your name. Xanzul. You're one of the biggest damned trolls on the WoW official forums. Get lost.

[xanzul]

I've been banned so often, from the official Blizzard forums, that they've warned me I'm one more infraction from a perma-ban. And I can assure you that most of my bans were pure BS.

For instance I've been banned a few times for "spam" because I answered multiple threads while servers were down. I received at least one ban for asking Blizzard why they were deleting unfavorable threads. And, my favorite, a ban for "trolling" when I reported someone else for trolling. (I actually went through the follow-up process of asking them for an explination. I received none.)

In short Blizzard can be very capricious in who they ban and why. Some might be appropriate. Most, in my experience, are more about PR and image control.

Considering the official forums are absolutely filled to the brim of absolutely scathingly critical threads that put Blizzard and Wow into the worst possible light I think you are full of shit. If you were banned it was because you violated forum guidelines not because they were trying to silence you.

[SodiumChloride]

Moral of the Story:

Don't use the World of Warcraft Forums to discuss anything but theorycrafting, helping people who need it, and making useless night elf hugging threads. If you are pursuing anything else, there's a pretty good chance you will be banned.

Sadly this is pretty accurate.

[xanzul]

To be blunt, I don't get blizzard's bans.

I have been banned like 3 times now over the silliest of things.

One was over the use of the term "fucked up" in a post about video game level design as in "the player fucked up". Just today, I got banned from some post in which I argued with two other people. I was never insulting or called anyone names, granted I wasn't 100% "nice" (it's an argument for heaven sakes) ... banned for "trolling/spamming".

I keep walking into these bans and I don't know why! I give up.

You don't see how "fucked up" violates forum guidelines on language and profanity? That alone makes me question your judgment when you claim your more recent bans for trolling/spamming were undeserved.

[SodiumChloride]

You don't see how "fucked up" violates forum guidelines on language and profanity? That alone makes me question your judgment when you claim your more recent bans for trolling/spamming were undeserved.

It's such a commonly used term. People have said worse in trade chat. It was masked by the forum filter anyway.

Ban over that?

Edit: If you don't want people typing certain words, wouldn't it be a better idea to just "reject" their post stating that it contains "unacceptable language" rather than just mask parts of it then ban the poster?

Programming something like this isn't hard. A lot of forums have such features. Then again, this is Blizzard who can't even get their quote function to work right - sometimes the the name of the person you are quoting doesn't display.

[xanzul]

When did I say ANY of that? That I want anything? Please, show me in my post where I said I was tired of not being heard or getting what I want. Stop talking out of your ass and trolling just to try and start shit. If you wanna do that, head to WoW general with the rest of the trolls.

Oh, Just recognized your name. Xanzul. You're one of the biggest damned trolls on the WoW official forums. Get lost.

Thanks for showing yet again those who complain about this community are typically the worst of the worst and completely clueless that they are part of the problem.

[spectrefax]

Thanks for showing yet again those who complain about this community are typically the worst of the worst and completely clueless that they are part of the problem.

You run around constantly on this forum and the official forums disagreeing with every post made and insulting everyone. You're a troll. Period.

Infracted: Flaming

[Nixxy]

You missread my child, i'm not whining at all. I'm more chuckling at it's lunacy

I'm chuckling at your stupidity.

[xanzul]

It's such a commonly used term. People have said worse in trade chat. It was masked by the forum filter anyway.

Ban over that?

Edit: If you don't want people typing certain words, wouldn't it be a better idea to just "reject" their post stating that it contains "unacceptable language" rather than just mask parts of it then ban the poster?

Programming something like this isn't hard. A lot of forums have such features. Then again, this is Blizzard who can't even get their quote function to work right - sometimes the the name of the person you are quoting doesn't display.

It is profanity. Period. End of story. I don't care how common the phrase is, it is still considered profane not only by Blizzard but society as well. Also the filter doesn't give you carte blanche to curse up a storm.

As far as the forums go there isn't one piece of forum software past or present that doesn't have bugs this site included so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

---------- Post added 2013-03-22 at 10:45 PM ----------

You run around constantly on this forum and the official forums disagreeing with every post made and insulting everyone. You're a troll. Period.

So I'm a troll because I respond to those I disagree with and explain why on a DISCUSSION forum? Here is a hint: forums are for discussion and debate. If you want a soapbox where you can say what you want without anyone being able to disagree with you then start a blog. You have yet to counter anything I have posted except to harass and insult me.

[SodiumChloride]

It is profanity. Period. End of story. I don't care how common the phrase is, it is still considered profane not only by Blizzard but society as well. Also the filter doesn't give you carte blanche to curse up a storm.

As far as the forums go there isn't one piece of forum software past or present that doesn't have bugs this site included so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

Actually I was banned over "subverting the filter" ... the word showed up as gribbish, so ...

Curse up a storm? "fucked up" was used once. ONCE. LOL.

Also Blizzard's Forums is buggier than "normal". I been on the net for over a decade, most forums work fine with the occasional edge case glitch. None I have seen have as obvious a bug as quoting not working right. Since the early days of Blizzard's forums, I always wonder why they don't just buy an off-the-shelf solution, since apparently they can't code a forum if their life depended on it.

Anyway, I have given up. I will from now on only post if I have a question with a "direct" answer, e.g. "This staff or this MH + offhand?" and I will phrase it in the most concise way possible - the longer the post, the greater the danger. "Discussing" things on those forums will sooner or later get you perm-banned. LOL