Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I would like to tell you about a story. A story, although sad, bares heavy truth.

Today I saw a gold seller spam map chat in-game. Within seconds his macro was just pasted everywhere and chat was ablaze. In this confusion I mimicked his original message and added a few humorous elements to it; it was a simple jest. Although some people liked it it would appeared that others simply report ANY message in map chat that could remotely look like spam do to my near prompt kick from the game.

So an innocent joke had lead to a not-so-innocent kick of a kind, handsome player. This handsome player was denied game time due to ignorant peers who refuse to read what they do not want to and judge without eyes. Yes, I do blame Anet for this silly mechanic (That’s what “block player” is for), but I’m mostly upset with my fellow gamer.

Please think before you report. Now I have to wait for Anet to personallly see that my account wasn’t "accessed by an unauthorized individual.

~Mamric

Considering the large amount of spam there is, I personally don’t read the spam messages and just report + block. I’m sorry, but taking the time to go through the wall of text that interrupts my game in a negative way is not worth the time. Hopefully you will get your account access back and hopefully you’ve learned from this.

Aireroth.7596:

Considering the large amount of spam there is, I personally don’t read the spam messages and just report + block. I’m sorry, but taking the time to go through the wall of text that interrupts my game in a negative way is not worth the time. Hopefully you will get your account access back and hopefully you’ve learned from this.

If you truly do report people without even looking at what they say then I believe I’m the one that should be sorry for you. Just in this case, what you do may be more harming to a real person than hindering to a robot. I will definitely get my account back and I have learned my lesson to not mimic bots in chat, but for the wrong reason. I’ve learned that, although it was funny and did make a few people laugh, I should probably avoid doing it in the future due to people, like you, who carelessly flaunt their powers.

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

That quote also pertains to the ability to have another un-rightfully suspended.

~Mamric

This is the second forum post about "i tried to be funny and got mixed in the waves of spam and taken as one of them " I’ve seen this week.

Don’t try to jump into the tsunami just to get a laugh.

Submit a support ticket explaining why you did what you did, and that you’re not really a spammer. And hope they don’t sit on it.

Mamric.8143:

If you truly do report people without even looking at what they say then I believe I’m the one that should be sorry for you. Just in this case, what you do may be more harming to a real person than hindering to a robot. I will definitely get my account back and I have learned my lesson to not mimic bots in chat, but for the wrong reason. I’ve learned that, although it was funny and did make a few people laugh, I should probably avoid doing it in the future due to people, like you, who carelessly flaunt their powers.

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

That quote also pertains to the ability to have another un-rightfully suspended.

~Mamric

I am not going to jump on the bandwagon, just tried to explain the reasons behind it. If you feel sorry for me, go ahead, I don’t mind.

I don’t go around reporting/blocking random people. I do pay attention to what people say. However, anything that appears to be related to gold-selling is in my mind not worth the attention, ergo, report + block. And I preach this to other people as well, since this is the best thing we can do, to make the game a better place.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good laugh. And there are far better types of humor than mimicry.

However, I do have to admit that my decision is often based on context. If I were to arrive on a map and first thing that greets me, is the gold spam, my actions are quite instant. If I were to see that the messages were partially mocking (based on other /map messages), I wouldn’t be that quick to report it.

Hopefully that cleared it up a bit.

And good luck getting your account back!