It's ok to harrass players

So I reported someone for harassing me in chat the first time using the steps listed here on the website with a screenshot, est. time &all.
Completely unprovoked, without any previous interaction. This player /w me "stop turtling in av you ****".
So as a sane human being I reported him & the response I got was pure gold.
This GM replied with "You may use the /ignore function in this situation".
Customer Service at it's peak, really valuable information! I never knew that!

Now I don't know if this is just one individual GM that does not want to do their job, or if this is a private server thing in general.
The Customer service is not, 'just bad', it's like CS is provoking you, Unbelievable.
So moral of this story, you can harass people & call them ****s in chat & absolutely nothing will happen to that person, even if you report them with evidence.

Are you trolling or is this real?
Can you tell us which rule that person broke?

Only one who broke any rules here, as far as I can see, is you:

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#2: No Avoiding the Word Filter or Minimum Character Requirement -- Do not avoid the language censor - it's there for a reason. If you want to use a curse word, do it and let the censor do its job. This encompasses changing or removing letters, using symbols or spaces or anything that will cause the word to not be replaced by asterisks. The forum requires at least 10 characters in order to have a post created. If you can't think on 10 letters, just don't post. If caught copying the alert or circumventing the filter, you will receive an infraction for spam.

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There's in-game ignore function for this very purpose. If the person dodged around ignores and continued this for few days, then you could screenshot and report him. For a singular happenstance like this, GM was right to tell you to ignore the player.

This isn't a "private server in general" thing, it's a basic common sense one.
Any sane human would have simply put the person on ignore at most, not even cared enough to type /ignore on many cases. Calling being thrown a mild insult once "harassment" is the sort of thing that makes real victims of harassment not be taken seriously nowadays.

It's true that this OP is a poor example, but I've submitted reports of someone threatening to track and kill a person irl and still got hit with "just ignore them." So the general sentiment of the post is valid.

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Originally Posted by helbra

It's true that this OP is a poor example, but I've submitted reports of someone threatening to track and kill a person irl and still got hit with "just ignore them." So the general sentiment of the post is valid.

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If you take something like that as a serious threat, and have an issue when everyone else doesn't, it might be a hint the internet isn't for you.

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Originally Posted by Obnoxious

If you take something like that as a serious threat, and have an issue when everyone else doesn't, it might be a hint the internet isn't for you.

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It was quite unhinged and reported by several people, actually. Maybe moderation isn't for you :)

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Originally Posted by helbra

It was quite unhinged and reported by several people, actually. Maybe moderation isn't for you :)

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The very fact you believe "several people" sending duplicates of a report is meaningful or that it increases your value speaks volumes.
We expect to be dealing with mature people, who react to social situations in a mature way. We have no intention of catering to infantile overreactions or "group pressure" by numbers. You took a wrong turn on the way to Bluesky.

I see some standing on my side & some saying no rules were broken, just use language filter.

Here's the deal though, this would not slide on retail as far as I recall. One instance of such a vulgar word would get that player banned for a day, at-least.
Now before you go one about "oh go play on retail then". No I will not go play retail, blizzard have turned that game into a Pay-to-win joke, plus I'm super casual, so I would never waste my hard earned money on a ruined game.

The point is though, that what happened is considered harassment, & harassment is (should) be a bannable offense. It does NOT NEED to be ongoing so that action is taken. You can't censor harassment with the language filter, I will still be able to tell what that person said from the asterisk count. It's really not rocket science.
Not seeing the word does not make it any better whatsoever.

I'll just conclude that Customer Service is complete dodo, & basically anyone can send the most vulgar, even life-threatening words in chat & GMs will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it.

So enjoy your time in toxic war-mane wow. At least now I know that if this happens again I will reply to that degenerate with insults of my own.
Since there is no law here.

https://youtu.be/IoyvvEWHodk?feature=shared

I don't understand that you want them banned. They are already impotently yelling at someone over the internet. When you have to resort to that, you have already lost. Isn't that bad enough?

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Originally Posted by Obnoxious

The very fact you believe "several people" sending duplicates of a report is meaningful or that it increases your value speaks volumes.
We expect to be dealing with mature people, who react to social situations in a mature way. We have no intention of catering to infantile overreactions or "group pressure" by numbers. You took a wrong turn on the way to Bluesky.

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It seemed relevant because you implied no one else had an issue with it, when they did. Idk what the rest of your dribble means, but the points stands - yes you may harass people here without fear of consequence.

People have been talking **** on the internet, are talking **** right now and will talk **** till the end of your life. You are dealing with other humans here, if you cant handle it, try single player games.

And about death treats, go to your local law enforcement and warmane will probably cooperate with them if the law says so. But you and everyone else already know what would happen - it would be just a test of the officers discipline not to laugh in your face about something so ridiculous. What's next, you want an STD test for your mother?

This thread baffles me...

The first complaint, whilst talking about a very surface level issue that can be dealt with on an individual level was addressed and given a reason for. After that the dogpiling began.

What Helbra brought up was a valid point, which too could've been reasoned with and explained why in all such cases action isn't taken. I.e lack of validity to the claims, lack of resources to go through the ones that there doesn't seem to be actual obvious threat about and a million different other reasons.

Rather the response is after q few back and forths, "Hey cuck ****, we grew up in the internet where everyone spoke their minds and it was a cesspool, if you want a more moderated place, kindly **** off, BR the forums" and this just baffles me... Why?

Why not just leave it at the first initial, professional response? Why polarize the situation further? Never understood this.

There is no situation to polarize. It's just some people who "take this **** seriously", baffles me why. You might as well ask for Sun to be banned, because it hurts your eyes when you look at it.