areaype Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 (edited) this past week i have been squelched many times by people that dont like me just report spam me everytime they see my name the system is broke i played this game a year ago never once squelched now people know how it woprks and use it there favor.... i do referal link clicks and gtn sales so see why i get spam reported..... if you wish to inform me posting my items for sale is spam im only gunna say this once turn trade chat off, if what somebody else is doing to better themselves bothers you im very sorry Edited August 15, 2020 by areaype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir-steve Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 .... i do referal link clicks and gtn sales so see why i get spam reported..... You mean you spam in spatial to get people to use your referral link? Yes, that's exactly why you get reported....that's the very reason spam reporting was invented. If people want to buy your stuff they can look on GTN - shouting it out as a form of advertising is spam that no one wants to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixxieTriss Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 It is definitely being abused. I played with someone the other night who got squelched because they were a better pvper than some other players and they didn’t like they were getting beaten. So they squelched him as pay back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardrossan Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 (edited) lol op has only written this one post, no avatar and there was a now deleted thread yesterday by a dude who was butthurt he got squelched for referral spamming. https://giphy.com/gifs/3ornka9rAaKRA2Rkac Edited August 14, 2020 by Ardrossan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRKMSN Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Stop doing the things that other people are bothered by. Making duplicate threads on the same topic after your previous ones were closed and/or deleted is also a form of spam. I'm beginning to see why you're getting squelched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimasterjac Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 I've played this game concurrently for almost a decade and haven't once been squelched. Going to go out on a limb and say you were doing something bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixxieTriss Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 (edited) I've played this game concurrently for almost a decade and haven't once been squelched. Going to go out on a limb and say you were doing something bad. I’ve been squelched once in 9 years. But I can confirm from contacts in the game that there is a cabal of players abusing the feature against people not doing anything to remotely deserve it. Some are from a specific guild trying to silence opposition or people they don’t like from another guild or guilds they don’t want to be able to recruit and be a threat. Others are in pvp and doing it against a select few people who they don’t like beating them. Some are just innocent bye standers who’ve been mistaken for someone else or replied in chat at the wrong time the trolls are out. It’s is happening and I think BioWare need to review the people who’ve been squelched. If they’ve found to have done nothing wrong, then the people who squelched them should have a 48 squelch applied to their accounts. If the same people keep abusing the system, they should have that ability removed from their account so they can’t squelch anyone ever again. Edited August 15, 2020 by TrixxieTriss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBlackjack Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 If its the same as was posted sometime back I believe it takes at least 10 reports to get squelched so no 1 person can do it. you should be able to appeal the enforcement it is wrong to just accept the opinion of a group if they are just using it to stop all gen chat requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaleijo Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 If you are harassed by a group of players using the report feature on you although you didn't do anything, you can write an in-game ticket to have the support look at it. If they find the feature is indeed abused, the abusers will get dealt with according to Bioware's rules for harassment. Keep in mind though that for example having a insult duel in public chat, people are in their rights to use that feature against you. Or if you constantly fill up the whole chat window via trade chat postings for example. Just because you don't think you are spamming doesn't mean others do agree with you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardrossan Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 (edited) I’ve been squelched once in 9 years. But I can confirm from contacts in the game that there is a cabal of players abusing the feature against people not doing anything to remotely deserve it. A...star (wars) cabal? Edited August 15, 2020 by Ardrossan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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