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Silenced?

lapprenticellapprenticel Member Posts: 254 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I went to play Sompek but when I tried to communicate with my team I discovered I'd been silenced. What is it and how does it happen? Is it a glitch? Another thread suggested it's a 24 hour effect, but the problem is if that's the case, I'd been offline for at least 4 hours, and probably closer to 8 when I was silenced. And since I was busy trying to work out what was up, and why I couldn't communicate with my team, I got assigned an AFK penalty which puts paid to today's Sompek attempt - I'm not waiting 2 hours to try again! Anyone able to explain?

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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    The only cause I have heard of for silencing was that you were reported too many times for spamming.

    Is it possible you said something in zone that got enough people to report you? I don't know any other reason for the silence penalty, but there might be one I don't know about.

    From everything I have heard, yes.. it lasts for 24 hours.
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  • lapprenticellapprenticel Member Posts: 254 Arc User
    How can I be spamming when I'm offline? Wasn't the patch roughly 20 hours ago?
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    Yeah, that's a good point Napalm.. if you said something that the automated system mistook as a gold seller spam, it would also silence you. Even if you just say part of the sites name, sometimes it can auto silence you.

    If you didn't do anything offensive, then it's probably a false positive. Sucks, but as far as I know, all you can do is wait it out. By the time support saw your ticket the 24 hours would already be over.
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    without more context on the matter before hand it is hard to come up with an informed point of view, for example if you were up to no good before you logged off and if in that time you had say a 24 hour chat ban, it would carry all the way through until it stopped.

    you may need to end up becoming more forthcoming regarding what you were doing just before the ban.
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  • lapprenticellapprenticel Member Posts: 254 Arc User
    From memory I basically logged in to convert dil, and ran Sompek on one toon. I think I suggested or agreed to my team finishing after the 5th level. In short very limited interaction, and very limited chat. Since you chaps are suggesting spamming is the main cause, and since I don't spam, it's all rather TRIBBLE! Guess I'll just have to keep an eye on things. If I get hit with another silence maybe I'll have to contact support and ask what the glitch is/was.

  • grendelthewise#0990 grendelthewise
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    > @coldnapalm said:
    > Like sea said, you could have been reported for spamming. You could have also said something REALLY bad as well. I mean something worse than what you hear is ESD all the time. I mean it is really rare for them to silence over that...but even they have limits.
    >
    > Finally, you could have been **** and used to spam the gold seller website. If you don't have anything worthwhile, they use your account to do this sometimes and hope you don't catch on. If you don't remember doing either of the above, I would recommend changing your password.

    Too bad that feature doesn't work on individuals
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    lapprenticel wrote: »
    From memory I basically logged in to convert dil, and ran Sompek on one toon. I think I suggested or agreed to my team finishing after the 5th level. In short very limited interaction, and very limited chat. Since you chaps are suggesting spamming is the main cause, and since I don't spam, it's all rather ****! Guess I'll just have to keep an eye on things. If I get hit with another silence maybe I'll have to contact support and ask what the glitch is/was.

    i want to be clear i'm not suggesting anything of the sort, i would like to find out the cause and at the time if you did have a chat ban it would only last so long same as what seaofsorrows mentioned earlier. I would of liked a fuller account of what potentially caused it rather than pointing to anything specific.

    if you felt i acted in bad faith i am sorry for that.
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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    It probably just a glitch in the system that marked you as a false positive.

    Automated systems are like that some times. You can ask Youtubers where nearly all their videos has been systematically demonetized (meaning no ads for those videos) by Youtube's algorithms designed to make Youtube a more acceptable medium for advertisers.
  • grendelthewise#0990 grendelthewise
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    > @coldnapalm said:
    > monodoso wrote: »
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    > Too bad that feature doesn't work on individuals
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    > Wow, way to show off your stupid. Silence exactly works on individuals. It stops individuals from talking in zone chat. I know you seem hell bent on following me to try and make it look like I am stupid, but all you are doing is showing off how little you know...or can even do BASIC logical deduction. But seriously, this comment makes no sense. If you meant something else...well, the fact that your school failed you miserably ain't my fault (assuming english speaking nation of course). Although I am thinking the school maybe forgiven in this case. There is just a level of stupid that nobody can fix...and you sir maybe that level.

    You don't make any sense. By the way you're stupid anyways. Your just in denial.
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  • grendelthewise#0990 grendelthewise
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    > @coldnapalm said:
    > monodoso wrote: »
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    > You don't make any sense. By the way you're stupid anyways. Your just in denial.
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    > So...your best this time is I'm rubber you're glue. Reverting to taunts of a 5 year old. Yeah...way to show off how much sense you have there bucko. Just keep digging.

    Hahahaha. Now that's funny
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,502 Arc User
    Children, if you don't settle down right this second I'll turn this forum around! Do you want that? Do you??

    Now, as to the original posting: Sometimes the autoban can catch the wrong thing, or the system can be gamed by someone who might have something against you or might just be enlisting their buddies to prank folks. It used to be that you could buy an autoban from chat for a mere five reports of spamming, or ten of misconduct; now, as I understand it, it's twenty and twenty-five, and they all have to be from within the same 24-hour period.

    Even I've been caught by that - I had my account suspended because I'd reported someone advertising a goldseller site, and someone mistakenly included my account name in the subsequent permaban. Fortunately, once I was able to bring this to the attention of CS (not as easy a feat as it should have been, but one does what one must), it was ironed out in about a week. (They had to make sure I really was innocent of all charges, after all...)
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  • lapprenticellapprenticel Member Posts: 254 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    No no I wasn't taking umbrage at your post. Without details it can be hard to know why something happened. Since this is the first time I've encountered this I thought I'd ask and see what others could suggest. I have had a ban (suspension?) from Cryptic in the past and was able to inquire as to the cause - we differ about acceptable views and freedom of speech. Consequently I tend not to engage with Chat much. The fact that the silencing had occurred during a period I was offline also puzzled me.

    Appears to be gone now but I'll keep an eye on things. If it happens again I can always contact support.
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    lapprenticel wrote: »
    From memory I basically logged in to convert dil, and ran Sompek on one toon. I think I suggested or agreed to my team finishing after the 5th level. In short very limited interaction, and very limited chat. Since you chaps are suggesting spamming is the main cause, and since I don't spam, it's all rather ****! Guess I'll just have to keep an eye on things. If I get hit with another silence maybe I'll have to contact support and ask what the glitch is/was.

    i want to be clear i'm not suggesting anything of the sort, i would like to find out the cause and at the time if you did have a chat ban it would only last so long same as what seaofsorrows mentioned earlier. I would of liked a fuller account of what potentially caused it rather than pointing to anything specific.

    if you felt i acted in bad faith i am sorry for that.

  • grendelthewise#0990 grendelthewise
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         Member Posts: 640 Arc User
    > @coldnapalm said:
    > jonsills wrote: »
    >
    > Children, if you don't settle down right this second I'll turn this forum around! Do you want that? Do you
    > Do it...I DARE you >:) .

    Just another empty threat.
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    lapprenticel wrote: »
    Consequently I tend not to engage with Chat much. The fact that the silencing had occurred during a period I was offline also puzzled me.

    Appears to be gone now but I'll keep an eye on things. If it happens again I can always contact support.


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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Is Twitter the preferred method of interaction with Star Trek Online, any more?
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    where2r1 wrote: »
    Is Twitter the preferred method of interaction with Star Trek Online, any more?

    For broadcasting quick status updates, yes. The latest downtime info will also be published there too. The forums are best suited to community discussion.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Well, I can't say I even use Twitter for anything, now.
    Not sure I am going to start JUST for Star Trek Online. LOL!
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    where2r1 wrote: »
    Well, I can't say I even use Twitter for anything, now.
    Not sure I am going to start JUST for Star Trek Online. LOL!

    You don't have to start, you can just bookmark STO's twitter URL and check on by as needed (without an account). It's pretty handy in the event of unexpected technical problems. (ex. downtime.) Also announcements regarding Ten Forward Weekly.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    OH, I didn't say I did NOT have a Twitter account. Because I do....and on Facebook.... Reddit.... Pinterest.... Flipboard.... I am at the point of throwing it all out the window.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    I did it. Down to Facebook and Imgur.
    Oh I forgot to close out Reddit.

    Oh and Twitter does work with just a bookmark.
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