Boost spamm is finally getting punished.

[xGLxAnubis]

Maybe they aren't using hard earn cash, but their stimulus checks.

They earned that stimulus check by being born in 'murica.

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Hey.

So this article https://www.wowhead.com/news=320341/...ubject-to-bans

Showed up on wowhead recently and it seems like a person who used a WoW 3 account for boost spamm got that account banned due to a new rule.

You are no longer allowed to have a wow account that's only for spamming.

This just makes it so you can't create an account to spam advertise; You can still create an account that solely boosts people. So really... very few people will actually be effected.

[Einsz]

Oh look another boosting community admin found a way how to screw boosters over with gold payouts making up a story.

[Qnubi]

Oh look another boosting community admin found a way how to screw boosters over with gold payouts making up a story.

This could also be true, seems like it was a big fish. Just "fake" a ban and you are good.

[Biomega]

There's nothing wrong with buying or selling boosts, as long as it doesn't impact other people. If all you do is organize runs and have people pay for slots to get carried, I see absolutely no problem.

HOWEVER if you then spam the LFG tool with advertisements or make trade/general chat unusable for other people because it's a scrolling wall of ad spam, then we have a problem - because of the advertisement, not because of the activity that's advertised.

EDIT: I'm talking runs for gold, of course; RMT is and always should be condemned and punished most severely.

[kranur]

Well the spam is out of hand. I don't care if they don't get banned or not as long as the spam stops.

Can even make a boosting dedicated channel and only have those interested there, not all over trade (which I eventually left) and lfg.

[Leyre]

You can't buy my love for you.

we just havent found the right price

[Trend]

There are no limits on what you can buy in the real world. If you make the cash and can pay it, you can buy it, just like the AH.

That's what I was thinking initially but there are some things that are not inherently illegal (such as narcotics, machine guns, etc) but that you cannot buy legally. Organs and babies are the two things I came up with but there may be more.

(Not to take away from the point that what you quoted was a silly argument.)

[jazen]

Maybe they aren't using hard earn cash, but their stimulus checks.

Wonderful comment, it made me laugh. Wish I got a stimulus check, either my wife spent it before I saw it or we made too much to qualify.

[Zig Zug]

Oh look another boosting community admin found a way how to screw boosters over with gold payouts making up a story.

100,000,000 gold is a lot of gold.

[glowpipe]

Damn,its amusing how butthurt people get when others make way more gold than them,it would be funny if it wasnt so sad

Yes, because this is totaly about the gold, and not the fact that they spam trade chat to the point it becomes useless. can't even use it to recruit anymore

[deenman]

Yes, because this is totaly about the gold, and not the fact that they spam trade chat to the point it becomes useless. can't even use it to recruit anymore

I completly understand the spam issue,but whats a more reasonable solution?to BAN people that use ingame gold services in a capitalistic fucking civlization,or to just make a boost/advertisement section in the lfg tool? but hey....small indie company i guess,its easier to fire 800 people and just use an automated system

[ExtremelyCrusty]

Good riddance. The guy in the ticket acting all innocent

[Drusin]

You are no longer allowed to have a wow account that's only for spamming.

So the way around the rule is to do a dungeon then spam all day?
Or is it do 2 dungeons then you can spam all day?
Or is it 3?
There will be a minimum that players will figure out and that's just what they'll do to get around it.

[Zig Zug]

Good riddance. The guy in the ticket acting all innocent

You can actually read the whole thing on Reddit, and how people call him out for it.

Pretty entertaining.

[Chakah]

It seems like a person who used a WoW 3 account for boost spam got that account banned due to a new rule.

You are no longer allowed to have a wow account that's only for spamming.

My Google-Fu has failed me, but I could have sworn when the policy was initially introduced, there was a Blue forum post saying that creating level 1s on multiple servers just for advertising was against the policy back then. (2017? 2018?) That you had to use a character that actually was doing the content you were boosting for.

Anyone else remember this? A link would be great.

[Lucetia]

Hey.

So this article https://www.wowhead.com/news=320341/...ubject-to-bans

Showed up on wowhead recently and it seems like a person who used a WoW 3 account for boost spamm got that account banned due to a new rule.

You are no longer allowed to have a wow account that's only for spamming.

Your title is misleading. Boost spam isn't getting punished. You can still advertise in chat and everywhere and sell boosts. What you can't do is make a special account that is only there to advertise (ie 2 WoW's open with one advertising while playing on the other).

If you do normal WoW activities then you are fine and can still do the "Boost spam", however, if your account is only for spamming channels or as another post in that one mentioned just doing banking / auction house stuff it can still be banned.

[chiddie]

Sitting on AH and playing it, or herbing and crafting things, only to use your hard earned cash on boosts is something I will never respect. You may say their gold, their choice, but nah, there should be limits, just like in the real world, on what you can buy.

Lol?

People who buy boosts do not play with AH or crafting. They play with Blizzard tokens.

[Nalam the Venom]

Your title is misleading. Boost spam isn't getting punished.

ok, sorry, you have my permission to change it to whatever you find more appropriate

[Mendzia]

A new, unannounced rule change just cost me over 100m gold

Very sad story, bro...

Anyway, good to see Blizzard making good decisions.
I will keep reporting ANY kind of advertisement for boosts even if it is only for gold.

[Azadina]

So the way around the rule is to do a dungeon then spam all day?
Or is it do 2 dungeons then you can spam all day?
Or is it 3?
There will be a minimum that players will figure out and that's just what they'll do to get around it.

Really easy to solve: Any advertisement spammed must also be completed on said character of said account. Advertise mythic raid boost? Well, did said character run mythic raid that reset? No? Account banned. Advertise for m+15 carries? Did the character run said keys? No, max key complete +5? Account banned.

"oh but my internets broke so I couldn't" "dog ate the PC" No excuses, no reversals, indefinite bans.

Problem solved.