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Receiving back to back 24hr silences

nutmonkey22nutmonkey22 Posts: 2 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Gameplay Bugs
Just now I got silenced from in-game chat for 24 hours, it told me I had been "Flagged as a spammer". I had not been spamming or violating any chat policies, I was just in a friend's hideout and there were only 2 others there and I'm sure neither one of them reported me as we were conversating. I had only had maybe an hour or so of active in-game time since my first silence ended earlier today, and even for the first silence I was not spamming at all, it is my understanding that spam is defined as repeating the same/similar messages in the same chat channel over and over(3 or more in the same screen is what i had heard in other games, anyways..) the GMs response to the ticket I opened at the time said I have been silenced "either for violating chat policies or for spamming", well I wasn't spamming but I can see how I may have "violated chat policies", at the time before the FIRST silence I had sent a few rather trollish tells to people and perhaps they reported me for spam, what I've heard in the past is that in this game if you get put on 10 or more people's ignore list you automatically get silenced, that may be what happened. In summation, yes I was being rather trolly just before the FIRST 24hr silence(although not spamming and I wasn't exactly violating chat policy I wasn't swearing or anything), but for the time before the SECOND 24hr silence I just got, I had done absolutely nothing I had only talked to two people and they were friends, I didn't spam, swear, whisper anyone or anything so I think this is some sort of error, I've already opened a ticket explaining this whole situation...but does anyone have any input that may help me in this situation? Aside from the obvious "stop being trollish and you wont get reported so much", which ftr I have stopped=/
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  • somebobsomebob Posts: 980 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The problem is that there's a player-run Mafia that decides if you want to talk or not.

    Yes, that's right - the PLAYERS have the ability to chat-ban ANYONE for 24 hours. All it takes is for a few people to /ignore you or to /report_spammer you.

    Oh, and there's absolutely NO verification at all to determine if you're a spammer or not. On top of it, people who wrongly use said commands don't get in trouble either.

    Oh, and when we last talked to the devs about this? We got a simple answer back:

    WORKING AS DESIGNED.

    Sorry.
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  • klittyklitty Posts: 1,545 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The system in a nushell:

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  • nutmonkey22nutmonkey22 Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    somebob wrote: »
    The problem is that there's a player-run Mafia that decides if you want to talk or not.

    Yes, that's right - the PLAYERS have the ability to chat-ban ANYONE for 24 hours. All it takes is for a few people to /ignore you or to /report_spammer you.

    Oh, and there's absolutely NO verification at all to determine if you're a spammer or not. On top of it, people who wrongly use said commands don't get in trouble either.

    Oh, and when we last talked to the devs about this? We got a simple answer back:

    WORKING AS DESIGNED.

    Sorry.

    Well thanks Bob, I guess I'll just have to keep my head down from here on out cause by the sound of it someone MUST be going around convincing people to report/ignore me because I was literally just sitting in a friend's hideout, hadn't talked to a single person and got silenced again=/
  • vincyrevincyre Posts: 88 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Best thing you can do really is to avoid chatting in zone or most of the teams. It's sad to say it, but that's what's kept me from being chatbanned.
  • cybersoldier1981cybersoldier1981 Posts: 2,501 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Because you were the guy running around Caprice annoying the crap out of everyone and being a troll. You annoyed and trolled at least five people I know, harassed anyone with a female avatar and begged for a date, and did backflips into people and tried to obstruct their movement.

    I dislike the chat ban system as much as anyone else, but you were being obnoxious and I'm not shocked.
  • evillegacy1evillegacy1 Posts: 66 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    that entire system is fubar. like this whether guy was being a troll or not, now they are going to make it their job to chat ban the guy for how long? 5 days, a week, forever until hopefull he leaves the game?

    I dont know what the person that was thinking when thye implemented that system but I seriously wonder what the hell were they smoking. I guess they never understood why mob justice is mostly illegal and the point of an actual appointed and hired law enforcement agency instead of letting citizens just run around killing anyone they dont like or dont agree with.

    So I in a way, if he was really harassing people, isn it a sort of harassing him, an action that is viewed wrong apparantly, but is ok in this one where a person can get a few of their cronies together and chat ban a person back to back to back because they dont like them. Straight Fubar.
  • revjimrevjim Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I think I have your experience beat. I haven't even been playing and was silenced. Not only that, the time of being silenced keeps jumping up at apparently random intervals . I started out with 26 hours of being silenced last weekend, it's now up to 33 hours. I didn't receive any notification of a reason why and have gotten no response at all to the trouble tickets I've opened. Oh yes, I'm silenced on NWN as well so apparently it's affecting my PWE account and not just my CO login.

    Oh, and speaking of Neverwinter online, has anyone noticed that ever since it went live, CO and STO are also unreachable at the same times that NWN goes down?

    Forgot to mention, if you try contacting support through the website the redirect fails so PWE really seems uninterested in fixing any problems.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Or were you silenced in NW? Because the cesspool of a Zonechat.
    And yes, the mute affects on all 3 Cryptic games, since the account is shared between CO, STO and NW. And chat server is shared also.
    Get 3 ignores in CO, 2 in STO and 1 in NW...BANG! Muted!!(The numbers were pulled out of thin air. And no idea if the system works that ignores pile up from all 3 games in a same jar...)
    And all 3 games shara also the serverhive (or what ever it is) on game side, so 1 goes all go....
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  • themightyzeniththemightyzenith Posts: 4,599 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    cybersoldier1981 wrote: »
    Because you were the guy running around Caprice annoying the crap out of everyone and being a troll. You annoyed and trolled at least five people I know, harassed anyone with a female avatar and begged for a date, and did backflips into people and tried to obstruct their movement.

    I dislike the chat ban system as much as anyone else, but you were being obnoxious and I'm not shocked.

    This ^

    I don't agree with how the chat-ban system works either. However I find it ridiculous that the OP has no idea why he would be on the receiving end of ignores from others. I have personally witnessed the most disgusting, misogynistic comments from this guy.

    Stop being disingenuous, OP.
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