Will Blizz finally act against child predators in WoW

[Incredibale]

People keep asking for kids' A/S/L and phone numbers. I can't take it anymore! Pls ban them!

[Deleted]

Pretty sure if you report them and include all the information and your concerns someone at Blizz would investigate pretty sharp thats a PR disaster waiting to happen

[Deleted]

People keep asking for kids' A/S/L and phone numbers. I can't take it anymore! Pls ban them!

Report/Not being stupid helps.

[TheDestinatus]

Can't say I have ever seen this once in 11 years. Good thing you are informing MMO champ forums about it though, why post on the official ones when you can post on a forum where it will go no where.

[Mefistophelis]

I wanna know where the OP saw all those "predators" and what he's done about it.

[Super Kami Dende]

Its the same thing every time.

I see someone say Blizzard needs to hurry up and Ban X type people because they always see them doing whatever they are complaining about.

Yet you ask them "well if you saw it did you report them?" and 99% of the time I haven't they just see it and complain that they aren't being banned but don't report it.

[Deleted]

I wanna know where the OP saw all those "predators" and what he's done about it.

It's one of the many problems that are very common but only seen by few.
(PS:I don't think that was sarcastic enough.)

[Low Hanging Fruit]

I have no doubt it happens. But a function already exists to handle it. Report them or put them on ignore. Or both. Pretty simple. It would be dumb to assume Blizzard has thousands of employees reading every line of chat communicated in the game. Not only would that be some creepier shit but also next to impossible.

[Deleted]

I have no doubt it happens. But a function already exists to handle it. Report them or put them on ignore. Or both. Pretty simple. It would be dumb to assume Blizzard has thousands of employees reading every line of chat communicated in the game. Not only would that be some creepier shit but also next to impossible.

They could filter for certain buzzwords as phone number and the question of age... but yes: Reporting them is the only effective action to take.
Posting on a fans site will help as much as farting morse code into a phone to customer support of twitter about it.

[Ulfric Trumpcloak]

Paranoia at it's finest.

[Amerissis]

People keep asking for kids' A/S/L and phone numbers. I can't take it anymore! Pls ban them!

How do they know they are kids when they ask asl? And in 12 years of play this never happened to me or any guildie I know, so I doubt this is such a big problem. Asking for asl is quite normal.

[Incredibale]

I want to call my local sheriff but I think I'll get sued by Blizzard if they do anything. WTF do I do?

[Al Gorefiend]

If it exists on the Internet, it exists within WoW OP. The ones you see are the ones who are vocal, what do you say about the ones who aren't? For all you know, your healer is a predator who keeps quiet, your tank has a 5.9GB file of loli porn saved to his computer, your guild leader gets off to puppy stomp porn.

They're all out there, the Internet brings them out, and there is no stopping them.

The only way to quell the fear is to ignore them and not let it bother you. They all stumble eventually, and the FBI has eyes everywhere for just this reason.

[Daedius]

Blizz doesn't monitor chat, they rely on reports...

[Deleted]

I want to call my local sheriff but I think I'll get sued by Blizzard if they do anything. WTF do I do?

Like people said, don't be dumb and just report that person in-game. And like others have posted, I have played since vanilla and never ever heard anyone complain about such a thing in WoW. I've seen it on plenty of websites, chat rooms, etc, but never on WoW. I think you're trying to turn some personal issue into something huge here.

Either that, or the OP is a forum troll.

[Lochton]

People keep asking for kids' A/S/L and phone numbers. I can't take it anymore! Pls ban them!

Well, they do act against it. You report the character with a written ticket about concern and a screenshot.

[Eleccybubb]

Unless they get reports about it then no they cannot. They would send those reports to a local law enforcement as they do with death/suicide threats.

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Well, they do act against it. You report the character with a written ticket about concern and a screenshot.

This.

/10 char

[Sam the Wiser]

Hey, OP, A/S/L?

[Incredibale]

If I mail a letter to Bob Perkins will they do anything? I am getting very worried.

[Eleccybubb]

If I mail a letter to Bob Perkins will they do anything? I am getting very worried.

You really want to get banned don't you?