Blizzard sends spammers to the silent stair. A new type of punishment will soon prevent rule breakers in World of Warcraft.
Just Shut Up – Spammers and Abusers Lose Their Chat Rights
With the prepatch of World of Warcraft: Legion, many things in the world of Azeroth will change. Apparently, Blizzard is also fed up with people who repeatedly display unacceptable behavior in chat. Therefore, a successful system from Heroes of the Storm will be implemented: the “Silence” punishment.
All players who are reported multiple times for being under the “Spam” or “Offensive Chat” category will be subjected to this new type of account punishment after a review. Those who incur this sanction will temporarily lose the following functions:
- Writing in instance chat
- Writing in global chats (Trade, General, etc.)
- Creating calendar invitations
- Sending in-game letters
- Sending group invitations
- Sending war game invitations
- Sending duel invitations
- Creating a new entry for a “premade group” or editing an existing one
The following functions are still possible:
- Whispering with friends
- Responding to whispered messages from non-friends
- Writing in group/raid chat (with loaded people)
- Manually creating groups and raids
- Writing in channels that have a moderator
- Sharing quests
- Joining a “premade group”
The special thing about this punishment: It doubles with every further sanction. At first, one will only be muted for 24 hours, then for 2, 4, 8, 16 days, and so on. As Blizzard nicely summarizes:
“This means that those who repeatedly incur the Silence punishment could soon be unreadable for a very, very long time.”
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