I asked a serious question about Blizzards stance on the increasing casual racism in General chat. the thread got diverted to a conversation about changes to names and as expected Blizzard ignored the question and lock the thread.
I know racism is not an issue for the mods and many of the players (maybe they have just never been on the receiving end of it), but I dont want to have to play on a server, or have my kids play on a server, where colour is used as an insult.
To be clear, this is illegal in the UK and can result in service providers being prosecuted if they are not seen to take reasonable actions...and if someone said of these things to my face rather than behind a keyboard, they would not enjoy what happened next (but I accept that most of these people would never have the guts to do that :) ).
Anyway, I still would still like an answer to the question from Blizzard, or a suggestion as to how I get one. So can a blue respond please.....
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The latest trend on my server is for overt rascism. There was a lot of abuse on General about black people and I reported using the 'language' facility but also raised a ticket as this seems to be getting out of hand. A GM told me that I should put people who do it on ignore and if they make enough comments Blizz will take some form of unspecified action. Last week a reported someone whose in game name was 'N*gg*r' (funny that I can't write this word on a forum but a player can have it as their name) and all that happened was a name change to 'Backtoblack'. The individual concern /w me to tell me that he knew nothing would happen and laugh. The question I have is why don't Blizz take this seriously? People know that they can make derogatory comments about black people or jews and that nothing will happen. Do Blizzard turn a blind eye because they are greedy and need the money, or because they tacitly approve of rascism. In the UK posting overtly rascist comments in a public forum (which I am told would include online games) is illegal and can lead to prosecution should the provider fail to take action. So Blizzard...what's your excuse?
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