Boosting Communities Deleted from Discord, Remote FollowUnit Script to be Disabled

Nice. Now start permanently banning those boosting and the players buying them.

Originally Posted by Super Kami Dende

Why in the fuck does Blizzard have the Authority to shut down Discord Servers?

What actual bullshittery is this?

Spreading cheats and services that break other programs ToS is against Discords ToS. Any company or organisation can ask Discord to ban a server that breaks their (and therefor also Discords) ToS.

They don't need 'Authority', they asked Discord and Discord said 'sure'.

Originally Posted by Kagthul

Sure. Still confused as to how any of that is a crack, cheat, or hack. It isnt any of thise things. And those are the things Discord says you can be banned for. So, since the thing were doing wasnt any of those things… why were they banned again?

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And heres the rub. This makes more sense, but… Discord shouldnt give a fuck. Its not Discord’s problem and they arent liable for what their users post, any more than Facebook, Twitter, et al, are.

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Yeah its currently like .82c to the USD, and on top of that, there are more taxes and fees on stuff like this in CAN. I think the Canadians pay something like 19$ USD equiv.

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Its prerty dystopian. Cheating in a video game is not breaking a law. Its not criminal activity (in most cases, at least). The mere fact that Discord is getting involved in this at all is pretty protofascist. Also because they just take the word of, or set the standard at whatever the other company sys, not any real legal definition. Like.. “Blizzard told us you cheated at their game, so we’re banning you here.” Shit like that is enough to ensure ill never use their software ever again.

So like… im not allowed to talk about things with my friends that arent illegal or criminal… because another, totally different company got butthurt? Fuck that noise.

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I hear hosts outside the US are totally behilden to the DMCA….owait, no.

It’s not dystopian for a company to say “we don’t want to be a platform that enables cheating, please leave.”

If I own a piece of land next to a store and someone says “I want to use your land to have a bbq”, I would say sure why not.

That doesn’t mean that if another person comes and says “I want to use your land to protest the store next to you” I need to let them do it or it’s a DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE.

If I want to maintain a good relationship with my neighbor and not be known for causing problems in the neighborhood, that’s my business.

People like you think it’s a dystopian nightmare when your parents tell you to do your fucking homework.

Originally Posted by Delekii

Man, some of you guys are absurd. Truly.

Discord is a company that primarily revolves around the facilitation of communication between video game communities. Is it that hard to understand that they see it as being in their own best interests to keep the makers of those games on side?

Discord don't allow the discussion of cheating in videogames. Blizzard sets the rules in WoW. Escrow boosting communities are breaking those rules. Discord bans escrow communities.

It's not even hard to follow.

Companies whose interests are somewhat aligned, or even share the same sphere of influence, frequently collaborate and cooperate in many walks of life. This isn't unusual or even uncommon. Don't go making up weird narratives about dystopian universes because gaming-aligned services agree with each other. Discord is a private entity, Blizzard are a private entity, and both of them feel like they benefit from whatever this move is. There is nothing dystopian, nor even weird, about that. Your option is to move on and not use them.

Boosting (RM or gold or free) is still not cheating.....It might be against the WoW EULA (edit: prohibited commercial use...not cheating. hacking or cracking by WoW either) , fair enough, but it is not cheating, hacking or cracking by definiton for Discord...Not like I care about them (i mean boosters) but I see a little discrepancy here.

"Prohibited Commercial Uses: Exploit, in its entirety or individual components, the Platform for any purpose not expressly authorized by Blizzard, including, without limitation (i) playing the Game(s) at commercial establishments (subject to Section 1.B.iv.3.); (ii) gathering in-game currency, items, or resources for sale/selling/exchanging outside of the Platform or the Game(s); (iii) performing in-game services including, without limitation, account boosting or power-leveling, in exchange for payment; (iv) communicating or facilitating (by text, live audio communications, or otherwise) any commercial advertisement, solicitation or offer through or within the Platform; or (v) organizing, promoting, facilitating, or participating in any event involving wagering on the outcome, or any other aspect of, Blizzard’s Games, whether or not such conduct constitutes gambling under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction, without authorization."

Originally Posted by cateran100

Boosting (RM or gold or free) is still not cheating.....It might be against the WoW EULA (edit: prohibited commercial use...not cheating. hacking or cracking by WoW either) , fair enough, but it is not cheating, hacking or cracking by definiton for Discord...Not like I care about them (i mean boosters) but I see a little discrepancy here.

"Prohibited Commercial Uses: Exploit, in its entirety or individual components, the Platform for any purpose not expressly authorized by Blizzard, including, without limitation (i) playing the Game(s) at commercial establishments (subject to Section 1.B.iv.3.); (ii) gathering in-game currency, items, or resources for sale/selling/exchanging outside of the Platform or the Game(s); (iii) performing in-game services including, without limitation, account boosting or power-leveling, in exchange for payment; (iv) communicating or facilitating (by text, live audio communications, or otherwise) any commercial advertisement, solicitation or offer through or within the Platform; or (v) organizing, promoting, facilitating, or participating in any event involving wagering on the outcome, or any other aspect of, Blizzard’s Games, whether or not such conduct constitutes gambling under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction, without authorization."

Discord does not specifically define the word “cheat” in the TOS so it is reasonable to conclude they use a colloquial definition, not a technical definition referring to things like programs that enable cheating.

The colloquial definition clearly includes “to violate rules dishonestly”. I don’t know where you guys got this idea that the word “cheat” only means running hacks or using exploits.

This whole decision by discord is a great tool is bring the dumb dumbs to the surface so you have no question who they are.

If you still can’t wrap your head around discord banning these players, you may need to seek help

Originally Posted by rhorle

Not really. People don't boost just because they aren't having fun or the game isn't engaging. They simply boost because they want to. People love to ascribe stuff to whatever thing they don't like about the current game instead of just being honest. Boosting happens because people want to do it and no amount of "fun and engaging" game design will stop it. Not to mention how nebulous fun and engaging is because it varies per person.

No amount of "fun and engaging" will help you if the goal you need to achieve is blocked by group content which you cannnot access due to several reasons. Like, m+ has so many difficulties that the group of people you can play with at a current difficulty level is constantly bleeding people out who outlevel it by gear. Instead, it fills up with people who are probably more a burden on the group than a real contribution to it.

Back in the "older days" where you only had a couple of difficulties (normal and heroic in Wrath, or the introduction of Mythic in dungeons, and nothing above it), the amount of people who were able to run your Heroic / Mythic grew, because people could not outlevel it anymore. As the result, runs became overall easier - not only because of the increasing gearscore of the players running dungeons, but also because more and more people knew them. And it was a thing which I liked, because it happened to me just as well. I have farmed the heirloom trinkets back in WoD - and I did fine despite not setting foot in any raid above LFR - I did have my Mythic gear of course, and I knew how to play my characters and I knew tactics and stuff. I contributed well to my group, be it as tank, dps or healer. With the introduction of m+, I just cannot compete anymore, because people outgear dungeons faster than I can. So people I can play with get worse and worse, since all good player level out.

That's great for esports, but its a really bad social engineering in an MMO. FFXIV does it much, much better.

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Originally Posted by rhorle

Blizzard deems it cheating and Discord doesn't outline what a "cheat" is. Just because it doesn't fit your definition doesn't mean it isn't something that falls into those categories when talking about things. This isn't a dystopian nightamre. They are not screwing someone over just because they didn't like them. This isn't even the first time a company has done something like this. Nintendo routinely has things taken down. YouTube is always taking things down. Even Discord responds to copyright claims.

It is always strange when people see Blizzard do something then act as if they are the first and some new evil has been unleashed on the world because of it.

Thanks for making my point for me. Youtube and Nintendo are notoriously bad companies in this regard.

Originally Posted by Delekii

Lol. Get over yourself just a little. They are both private companies and can do what they like. You are free to not use their services.

PRiVaTe ComPAnIeS CAn dO WHat ThEY LiKE. No, they fucking cant. I mean they can because they have all the money and nobody can challenge them, but they shouldnt have that kind of power.

Originally Posted by Exkrementor

Thanks for making my point for me. Youtube and Nintendo are notoriously bad companies in this regard.

It doesn't prove anything about your point because those two companies haven't made a dystopian nightmare. All you are doing is blurting out terms then saying "see you proved my point" when someone tells you these things happen all the time with any company. Even non-digital things. It is just the way things work. This isn't even the first time Discord has policed their own company for content.

Even MMO-Champion does the same thing every time they take action against a post for breaking the forum rules. Private companies should have the power to police their own service for what content they want on it. The alternative you suggest where no content can ever be removed usually turns out to be a huge issue or it is arbitrarily applied based on views of the contents topic.

Originally Posted by rhorle

It doesn't prove anything about your point because those two companies haven't made a dystopian nightmare.

I mean if we cant agree that Youtube banning, demonetizing and shadowbanning channels for arbitrary and sometimes even flatout wrong reaons, catering mostly to big companies who only wanna pump out ads and totally manipulating the search algorithm isnt already some kind of dystopian nightmare, then I guess it must be nice living in a world full of cotton candy clouds and dancing unicorns.

Man I wish I could go there. Reality fucking sucks.

Originally Posted by Exkrementor

I mean if we cant agree that Youtube banning, demonetizing and shadowbanning channels for arbitrary and sometimes even flatout wrong reaons, catering mostly to big companies who only wanna pump out ads and totally manipulating the search algorithm isnt already some kind of dystopian nightmare, then I guess it must be nice living in a world full of cotton candy clouds and dancing unicorns.

Moving the goal posts a bit aren't you? Private companies should be able to moderate their service. The entire reason why most of these companies started out is because they grew from small things people started to have their own community. If people don't like how Discord manages their service they can start their own competing service, right? It could see success and eventually spawn offshoots when there is a disagreement. It is the nature of things but moderation has been a core part from the very beginning and it isn't dystopian at all.

This very forum would be an absolute mess if it couldn't be moderated. You may see that as your utopia but I bet very few users would want to wade through hundreds of spam posts.

So Discord decides to delete these servers, but they allow racist, lgbt phobic and antisemantic servers to roam at wild.

Wonder how much blizzard paid them to do this.

Originally Posted by Yayeet

So Discord decides to delete these servers, but they allow racist, lgbt phobic and antisemantic servers to roam at wild.

Wonder how much blizzard paid them to do this.

Probably nothing at all.

I'm sure you'll find some other way to get people to play the game for you. Don't worry, buddy.

Originally Posted by rhorle

It is incorrect because in your very first post on the subject you described how a website would have to shift their operations in order to "hide" from an entity trying to stop them. Even now you indicate you understand it will have an effect because of needing decentralized solutions to hide. You keep making statements that indicate you agree with my point yet refuse to allow yourself to be wrong for whatever reason. This isn't semantics either and deflecting to insults only shows that you aren't interested in anything of substance but merely bullying your way into being correct no matter what.

I'd say that's semantics. I didn't insulted anyone. my point is if someone want to operate a website that blizzard doesn't like, they will succeed if they're determined, which is allowed by how the internet works. whether they adapt or plan ahead. that's all there is to it, it's just that. whatever semantics you want to argue on, I really don't have time to discuss about that.

Originally Posted by Somic

The fact that he is required to write *more* sentences in order to explain it to *you* isn’t a reflection on his ability to explain things. It’s a reflection on your ability to comprehend. You are now talking with two people who are attempting to explain something to you and you aren’t understanding still. Do you need 3? 4? 15?

I asked his point, which could have been summed up in a short statement. you're once again making things up. and who cares about it, why are you discussing a sentence about the length of his post, literally it doesn't matter, it could have been any length. stop being obsessed about me and do something more interesting maybe.

Originally Posted by Cæli

I'd say that's semantics. I didn't insulted anyone. my point is if someone want to operate a website that blizzard doesn't like, they will succeed if they're determined, which is allowed by how the internet works. whether they adapt or plan ahead. that's all there is to it, it's just that. whatever semantics you want to argue on, I really don't have time to discuss about that.

Right. As I said from the beginning you are describing ways that a website can continue to exist if someone tries to stop them. What you keep calling semantics is not semantics. Any one can go after any website. Will they always be successful? No. Every time you keep trying to defend that false claim you actually prove how false it is. Strange, right?

My point was summed up in a short statement. One you didn't like which then required a more lengthy, yet still brief, response. It is a strange thing for you to pick a fight over while at the same time telling others to stop being obsessed and focus on more interesting things. If it didn't matter why even bring it up?

Originally Posted by rhorle

Right. As I said from the beginning you are describing ways that a website can continue to exist if someone tries to stop them. What you keep calling semantics is not semantics. Any one can go after any website. Will they always be successful? No. Every time you keep trying to defend that false claim you actually prove how false it is. Strange, right?

My point was summed up in a short statement. One you didn't like which then required a more lengthy, yet still brief, response. It is a strange thing for you to pick a fight over while at the same time telling others to stop being obsessed and focus on more interesting things. If it didn't matter why even bring it up?

some websites will succeed to continue operating despite blizzard not liking it or trying to attack it. the internet allows that. really I don't know what to tell you more.

Originally Posted by Cæli

some websites will succeed to continue operating despite blizzard not liking it or trying to attack it. the internet allows that. really I don't know what to tell you more.

Right. The point of contention has been your claim that you can't just go after any website because of how the internet works.

Originally Posted by rhorle

Not really. People don't boost just because they aren't having fun or the game isn't engaging. They simply boost because they want to. People love to ascribe stuff to whatever thing they don't like about the current game instead of just being honest. Boosting happens because people want to do it and no amount of "fun and engaging" game design will stop it. Not to mention how nebulous fun and engaging is because it varies per person.

People would pay extra money to avoid fun and engaging content they are already paying for? LOL you dont half talk a load of nonsense sometimes.

Originally Posted by Zenfoldor

Assuming none of these bannable offenses are illegal...I miss when programs like these were communication tools and not social scoring systems.

Just to clarify this for myself...they are investigating people to verify that they are cheating in World of Warcraft, and banning them, but they do not make nor are associated with World of Warcraft, is that correct?

yup. time for a new app.