[wow] what not to say in trade chat or you'll get timeout....

[xum]

.. speaking from exeperience, as of today.

Greetings pewpew,

Account Name: HAHAHAwtfNO!
Realm: Crushridge
Character Name: Xum

A user of the above account has recently been involved in actions deemed inappropriate for the World of Warcraft by the In-Game Support staff of Blizzard Entertainment. This decision was made after a thorough investigation of the situation as a whole.

When a harassment report is made, all players involved in the incident are subject to review, which may result in account penalties. Though we are unable to discuss the outcomes of our investigations due to privacy concerns, rest assured that this incident has been looked into very thoroughly, and the appropriate actions have been taken on all involved accounts.

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Account Action: 3 Hour Suspension
Offenses: Harassment Policy Violation - Advertising
This category includes advertisement of:
* Any non-beneficial, non-WoW related businesses, organizations, or websites

Details (Note - Times are listed in Greenwich Mean Time, GMT):
2008/02/04 20:58:02 (GMT) - Xum says in General - Orgrimmar "wanted to trade powerleveling services -- 70 lock. Must be 70 lock, mage, or prot pally pst. hour for hour"

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I wrote them a letter saying WTF, trading instance runs is illegal?!?! No reply.

Pricks I tell ya.

[Diamndzngunz]

lol haha. Damn that sucks. Hope it gets resolved. Would hate getting another warning.

[Majestic_Clown]

LOL

I would suggest to use the words..."Instance Boosting" than "powerlevelling".

TBH serves you right really, lol, pick the right words next time

[Wilbur]

Rofl.

What a bunch of dumbasses. Still, thats American GMs for you ;-)

[xum]

Ive been playing MMO's since 1999. Powerleveling has been the neology for one character to help another character level. My father and I wrote the best macro for life mage draining in Asheron's Call (level 60 to 126 in 24 days... BOOYA), and when it became against the ToS/EULA, we quit. I'm not a cheater, but I will take full advantage of my rights =)

Anyhow, boosting is what you do to cars (either stolen or turbo'd / snailed for you Aussies), and twinks are men with broken wrists. WTF is wrong with WoW's vocab "Yeah I'm going to boost my favorite twink to 29 so he can rape some alliances" -- think about that out of WoW terms. :-p

Anyhow, it doesn't serve me right, for the simple fact that in what context can you trade powerleveling with level 70's other than IN-GAME, character to character? Ya' can't, and if I was a China/Bot/powerleveler, why wouldn't I just powerlevel myself.

P.S. blizzards customer support sucks. I got booted from the server, and didn't receive an email for 45 minutes explaining WHY. Then once I spoke my piece, they ignored it. Assholes.

[Ziran]

Just say : WTB run through deadmines (etc). I see people do this all the time.

And of course avoid discussing anything in trade channel. Use it for trade and LFG and you will never have a problem.

Ziran

[unionjack]

twinks have broken wrists?

I'm so confused.

I've always thought, it was a terrible misuse because this is the definition I know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twink_%28gay_slang%29