If anyone here doesnt think harassment or bullying isn't a big deal, please include your main server aka below and I can show you what harassment looks like once I'm done my 2 week ban by mimicking it for a month or however long it takes you to lose your mind.
Wow, you guys are so lucky you never played this game during the golden and very competitive years
"Also TK sexual harassment requiring numerous /dnd /squelch."
i've only sexually harassed you like twice. geez... that's like 20 times less than ive sexually harassed most men on here.
I personally accept the fact that I will also be talked to in a manner online that I would never be talked to in the real world.
Might just be me but I don't ever read anything longer than a paragraph or two on forums (5-10 sentences)
My care factor is not high enough to read posts that long, and definitely not high enough to respond to a post that long.
Harassment
In general, social behavior on the server is dealt with at the user-level. When encountering unwanted messages from others, a user may choose to simply not listen, use the /squelch command, use the /dnd command, or ban the offending user from their games as necessary.
However, occasionally harassment may arise, at which point administrators will step in. Harassment will be considered to have taken place when a user makes a routine of bothering another user across multiple gaming sessions, and does in a persistent manner such that usual responses, such as typing /squelch once time each log-in session, fail to adequately handle the issue.
When a user is committing harassment, they will be warned by administrators, and failure to correct their behavior will lead to a ban.
Honestly if we could just get people to grow-tf-up.
If you are a racist, a classist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a biggot or have any other socially unacceptable disorder then:
A) definately don't stream it.
B) don't inflict it on random players ESPECIALLY newbs.
C) preferably keep it out of chat and this forum alltogether.
D) regardless of you own private opinion, unless you are actually at a KKK meeting, seriously consider keeping it out of all social interactions with all human beings and you may discover that you have more friends.
Many times, when I leave a game because of verbal harassment people keep send me messages.
I even had one player that logged out and logged in with a different name in order to by pass the /ignore...
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Yet again you seem to be proud that you were given the tools to defend yourself guess what back in the days your parents had ways they could report such a thing if it happened on battle.net.
So that is one example that is a bad example sorry to say.
I say we are human we live in society we should make sure the environment is safe for its members right now war2.ru is a dangerous place to let a child play.
It can be also very aggressive toward minorities, do we want to stay that way to basically say if you are not strong enough just get out? Since when do you have to be a white supremacist and neo-nazi to feel at home and comfortable in a video game?
Its not just you. Babyshark is mentally ill it’s better not to respond to her. She takes arguments over the internet very seriously.
Again It is about having a welcoming environment for new people
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Why should we tolerate a few disgusting members to have such a bad impact and draw such a nasty image of our community.
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The problem is they are not just flagging themselves we all pay the price of these behaviors..
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DW18h2zWkAAhp7m.jpg)lol
Harassment
In general, social behavior on the server is dealt with at the user-level. When encountering unwanted messages from others, a user may choose to simply not listen, use the /squelch command, use the /dnd command, or ban the offending user from their games as necessary.
However, occasionally harassment may arise, at which point administrators will step in. Harassment will be considered to have taken place when a user makes a routine of bothering another user across multiple gaming sessions, and does in a persistent manner such that usual responses, such as typing /squelch once time each log-in session, fail to adequately handle the issue.
When a user is committing harassment, they will be warned by administrators, and failure to correct their behavior will lead to a ban.
Yea, pulling a gun on someone for talking shit is awesome.Well a fake gun... More like a psychological gun rather than a real one :-P
Lets be honest, there are many forms of violence. And verbal violence is one that is not being handled properly.
Cheers
Out of around 200 players active in the community 17 took part (it represents 8.5% of the total sample).
Just get rid of all the rules ill give you common sense who needs to go and who dont. ;)Common sense rules are pretty much what battle.net's code of conduct is all about. Just a set of global direction that pretty much give incentives it is rarely followed by bans because, when it is out there, people tend to behave and also forgive more :-)
players don’t want people banned for trash talking. That has been the consensus for years now.
However trash talking has never been seen as a banable offense
Now yet again my main point is for you to respect other people ideas and keep an open mind and not act like there is nothing to be said or done when people are expressing a different point of view.
Take for example van. Van is toxic but I would never report him. I actually play with him and expect him to be toxic, I even want him to be toxic because I know it is van!
Igognito is right I do not want to ban Van for saying these things I want him and these players to understand the difference and to try to not cross the line as much as possible.
Van is not the source of the disease he is a symptom.
20 years from now :o 2038 :o :o :o most of us will be like clint eastwood from gran torino by then.
WTF? You say you want people who repeatedly harass people punished ..... but not van because he does it all the time?
WHAT??
The guy is toxic and abusive, but he's YOUR friend so its ok? No it's not.
WTF? You say you want people who repeatedly harass people punished ..... but not van because he does it all the time?
WHAT??
The guy is toxic and abusive, but he's YOUR friend so its ok? No it's not.
Lol that's the thing, if we were to enforce rules the way some players on this thread are advocating regular players like van would inevitably be banned.
While I wouldn't really object to a kinder, more accepting atmosphere, I'm opposed to increased censorship measures to regulate asshole behavior as a practical matter for three primary reasons:
1. As already mentioned in this thread, I worry about the unintended consequences for otherwise mild players getting baited in to an argument.
2. The status quo has been established for so long--many current players being part of the community for a decade or longer, that I think change would be difficult for some.
3. While I get that slippery slope is a named argument fallacy, I really do appreciate the administrator's position not to take restrictive on players for pretty much anything except for cheating. Administrators have changed over the years, but that has remained a constant. This is not a door I'd like to see opened.
If you ban trash talking, Swift will stop winning games in chat lobby and get raped 24/7.