Battlegrounds - Abuse of the AFK system

[Altsoba]

It happened a lot in Nightfall EU BG before Russian realms appeared. Russians were very aggressive PvP players and made a lot of premades. That was their default behavior towards "foreign" players. It happened to a lot of people. They seemed to like me though as it never happened to me.

What I'd do:

FRAPS every single moment from the start of the BG, get the best cuttest screenshots after to show a GM. Even those with only one brain cell would see the sequencing and immediately understand what went on.

[Naysayer]

It happened a lot in Nightfall EU BG before Russian realms appeared. Russians were very aggressive PvP players and made a lot of premades. That was their default behavior towards "foreign" players. It happened to a lot of people. They seemed to like me though as it never happened to me.

What I'd do:

FRAPS every single moment from the start of the BG, get the best cuttest screenshots after to show a GM. Even those with only one brain cell would see the sequencing and immediately understand what went on.

I didn't know GM's even looked at submitted screenshots. I thought it was completely off limits.

[heyaz]

I don't think GM's look at anything

They are probably blind and use screen readers to hear your tells

[Altsoba]

I didn't know GM's even looked at submitted screenshots. I thought it was completely off limits.

If they don't it means they have ways of verifying the abuse without them.

[HPAVC]

I didn't know GM's even looked at submitted screenshots. I thought it was completely off limits.

I have asked 'do you want a screen shot?' and gotten 'sure' for a response, uploads to imageshack seemed to be fine.

[Naysayer]

I have asked 'do you want a screen shot?' and gotten 'sure' for a response, uploads to imageshack seemed to be fine.

They use their own logs, they won't accept screenshots or video as proof of any kind of abuse or accusation against other players.

They will look at them if it's something simple like a UI issue or "i'm lost" harmless kind of thing.

EDIT:

Vulgar language and verbal harassment can absolutely represent a violation of our policies. Should you witness a player using that kind of language, under any circumstances, please feel free to submit an in-game petition notifying us of the name of the player, and noting what they said.

Our Game Masters will be more than happy to investigate and take appropriate action. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept screenshots as evidence for a wide variety of reasons, but we do have powerful tools at our disposal to use in pursuit of such an investigation.

Also, due to our privacy policies, we'll be unable to notify you of the actions taken against another player's account.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...470&sid=1#1049

[HPAVC]

They use their own logs, they won't accept screenshots or video as proof of any kind of abuse or accusation against other players. They will look at them if it's something simple like a UI issue or "i'm lost" harmless kind of thing.

I was commenting that they do look at screen shots, sure its great that some photoshopped image wont get someone banned. What my experience was with the screen shot was from above was I opened a ticket about a bug in strat when you did it too fast and the event was bugged and Ramsmtein wouldnt spawn, I asked about sending a screen shot he said sure, he then made a casual comment about me having a character bolting cloth while the other was fighting.

I have also submitted shots of people wall hacking and the GM has made similar observations.

[Iceorbz]

Not much you can do, they dont wan't you in the premade so they will tell their whole group to report you. Could always sign up on your x-reamlms site at xrealms.org and run av premades with them.

[Lax]

It's not a violation of WoW's Terms of Use to harass anyone unless it is specifically through Chat. According to the rules, it's perfectly okay to spam someone with guild charters, duels, group/raid invites and indeed the battleground AFK reporting. The only difference is harassment from AFK reporting can't be handled by a UI addon.

Unless a lot of people complain about this type of problem, Blizzard isn't likely to do much about it. Annoying? Quite. Easy for Blizzard to fix? Not particularly. They would first have to adjust the rules to prohibit this type of harassment, and then it'd be handled on a case by case basis, and even then it would probably be difficult to differentiate between an actual AFK report and harassment.

Sucks. Hope it doesn't happen too often

[TheBigBB]

This sucks. The only good way I can think of to avoid this is to not make cute boxer-obvious names. If all your characters are named something completely different, people will have issues finding them on the character screen. In fact, just having a mixed team walking around towns and stuff, people rarely notice me. All the characters are inside the moonkin. :-P