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Cartoon posted:I kept using it till I quit WoW (during cataclysm). Surprisingly few people would check the chat box and I got a bunch of people vote kicked using witchhunt even though it said right there that I was doing it the whole time. Instigating a witchhunt in a WoW party or raid was always the best metagame, "WHO PULLED BOSS" from people that never checked the combat log and such.
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Tamayachi posted:Instigating a witchhunt in a WoW party or raid was always the best metagame, "WHO PULLED BOSS" from people that never checked the combat log and such. That's some of the funniest poo poo to do in WoW. In Mists of Pandaria there was a raid (I forgot which one but I'm sure you can do it on most raids/dungeons) where if the group had wiped we'd pull these huge mobs to the entrance of the dungeon and watch as people would re-enter the instance one after another only to be killed in 2 shots again by the mobs. It's just hilarious seeing all of the chaos and people freaking out in chat over repair costs.
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Cartoon posted:I kept using it till I quit WoW (during cataclysm). Surprisingly few people would check the chat box and I got a bunch of people vote kicked using witchhunt even though it said right there that I was doing it the whole time. I kept using it for months after the patch that let the chat system tell who was running the addon. Most people didn't even know it was an option, and having the icons shift over the party's head only once a second was still a colorful Christmas tree of furious team members.
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Iconhell was second only to Reported as the best, most useful WoW mod.
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Feb 12, 2015 13:11
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I liked the one that made funny noise each time I jumped.
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Feb 12, 2015 13:24
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At one point early on goons had the Honk mod. Honk allowed an individual to harass another individual by telling the Honk mod to tell everybody else running Honk to send them an email, scrolling the poo poo out of their chat. This was no doubt infuriating to be on the receiving end of, and it was one of the few times the GMs directly told GS to knock it the gently caress off, already.
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Feb 12, 2015 13:33
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Pope Guilty posted:Iconhell was one of the better goon WoW griefs. Are there no videos of this?
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Ha! I remember being irrationally angry when people did that to me way back. Mostly because I didn't have any clue what the icons even were. 
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Feb 12, 2015 16:08
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nexus6 posted:Are there no videos of this? mad people typing in chat doesn't make for a good vid or reaction 
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Feb 12, 2015 16:18
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What was the 'Reported' mod?
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VanSandman posted:What was the 'Reported' mod? If I'm remembering right, it was basically a text parser that would identify curse words (or whatever other words you programmed it to) in WoW chat and send the offending players messages informing them that you were reporting them to the GMs because their use of bad language violated the EULA. People would get really pissed off and send you profanity-laden replies, which would trigger Reported and cause you to automatically reiterate that they were bad people and you were going to get them banned for typing the word "rear end in a top hat." Every once in a while you'd get an amazing chain reaction of rage that led to a person literally arguing with a loving text parser for over an hour.
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Angry Diplomat posted:If I'm remembering right, it was basically a text parser that would identify curse words (or whatever other words you programmed it to) in WoW chat and send the offending players messages informing them that you were reporting them to the GMs because their use of bad language violated the EULA. People would get really pissed off and send you profanity-laden replies, which would trigger Reported and cause you to automatically reiterate that they were bad people and you were going to get them banned for typing the word "rear end in a top hat." Every once in a while you'd get an amazing chain reaction of rage that led to a person literally arguing with a loving text parser for over an hour. That's right. Somehow people would not realize that the messages were automatically generated despite appearing instantly
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QuarkJets posted:That's right. Somehow people would not realize that the messages were automatically generated despite appearing instantly Should have had it set to a timer, so that for every infraction it would take a little while where it would fake you actually typing it up. Add the occasional fake typo for extra authenticity.
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Feb 12, 2015 20:11
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Despite its name, the Reported mod never actually reported anything. I loved that mod so much.
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Feb 12, 2015 20:20
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Slime posted:Should have had it set to a timer, so that for every infraction it would take a little while where it would fake you actually typing it up. Add the occasional fake typo for extra authenticity. You could totally customize the messages if you wanted to. There may have been a way to add a delay, but I don't really remember
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Angry Diplomat posted:If I'm remembering right, it was basically a text parser that would identify curse words (or whatever other words you programmed it to) in WoW chat and send the offending players messages informing them that you were reporting them to the GMs because their use of bad language violated the EULA. People would get really pissed off and send you profanity-laden replies, which would trigger Reported and cause you to automatically reiterate that they were bad people and you were going to get them banned for typing the word "rear end in a top hat." Every once in a while you'd get an amazing chain reaction of rage that led to a person literally arguing with a loving text parser for over an hour. Don't forget about the Automated Goblin Therapist, an implementation of the ELIZA chatbot. It had a waiting room of everybody who had PMed you, you just had to put their name in the surgery list and if they PMed you again then AGT would PM them back. It would simply repeat back what the person said or ask an incredibly vague question, but that did not stop people from arguing with it. Here's an example of ELIZA. http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/ Yaos fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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About that Reported mod, isn't cursing and swearing permitted in WoW? I remember that game had a filter for bad language; and you could just turn that off if you weren't bothered by it. If that's true, that makes it even better, of course.
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On the subject of WoW trolling, this always amuses me. You know the people who beg for gold near the auction house? Well it just so happens that I'm loving rich in World of Warcraft. So one of the most amusing things to do is open a trade box with them, input 100,000g as your half of the trade, then without clicking the trade button go AFK. The person begging gets to see 100,000g being offered up to them, but has no way to claim it without you clicking the trade button. People will sit there for a good 15-20 minutes begging you in chat to just click trade and will stay right there. So far I've never had anyone figure out I was loving with them, just that I'm a dumbass who really wants to give them that much gold, but just can't figure out how to click trade. And for more AGT/Reported stories, we have a thread on the WoW subforum just for it. That's the new one, but there's the 87 page thread from the last expansion too! Stick Insect posted:About that Reported mod, isn't cursing and swearing permitted in WoW? I remember that game had a filter for bad language; and you could just turn that off if you weren't bothered by it. It is still against the EULA in public channels. You can get warned about it (I did 8+ years ago for saying something like "loving elves" while chatting with friends in /say).
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Stick Insect posted:About that Reported mod, isn't cursing and swearing permitted in WoW? I remember that game had a filter for bad language; and you could just turn that off if you weren't bothered by it. Bizarrely enough there was a profanity filter but profanity was also against the rules, even if it was regular spelling that didn't trick the filter. You could report someone for something that would show up on your screen as *****
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Hahaha, I'm going to start using this one:quote:[10:58 AM] To [Lanzik]: Say, do you have any psychological problems?
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Chomp8645 posted:Bizarrely enough there was a profanity filter but profanity was also against the rules, even if it was regular spelling that didn't trick the filter.
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Stick Insect posted:About that Reported mod, isn't cursing and swearing permitted in WoW? I remember that game had a filter for bad language; and you could just turn that off if you weren't bothered by it. No, actually- I wrote a Reported module that would cite the EULA at people and that one probably would get more rage from people who didn't want it to be true than any other.
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Poil posted:I always ran with the filter on because I found it amusing. One of the cities, that was a giant sewer, had a npc who sold cockroaches as small pets that followed you around and did nothing. Such profanity was not allowed by the filter which promptly changed it to ****roach every time you typed it. My favorite "filter gone wild" is Dark Souls 2. I saw a player named "G**st K***ht". Poor guy, he just wanted to be the Ghost Knight Meme Poker Party fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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The word "douche" is sometimes censored. That means that as a Dutchman I can never tell others that I shower, or that they should shower. An echo box of bad hygiene, created by an overzealous swear filter. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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Diablo 3 wouldn't let you name a character hammerdin because it had "merd" in it.
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Taxman84 posted:That's some of the funniest poo poo to do in WoW. In Mists of Pandaria there was a raid (I forgot which one but I'm sure you can do it on most raids/dungeons) where if the group had wiped we'd pull these huge mobs to the entrance of the dungeon and watch as people would re-enter the instance one after another only to be killed in 2 shots again by the mobs. It's just hilarious seeing all of the chaos and people freaking out in chat over repair costs. This is basically what happened to most pub groups in the revamp of MC, someone would accidentally pull a core hound or something and it would just go on a killing spree. Now normally you wait for a full wipe to release and run, but people would just slam that release button and start running back to the fight, so the core hound would just follow the trail of pubbies streaming from the entrance killing them as he goes until he just goes into a full murderspree of people rezzing and loading into the instance. Chomp8645 posted:My favorite "filter gone wild" is Dark Souls 2. I saw a player named "G**st K***ht". Poor guy, he just wanted to be the Ghost Knight Sometimes I honestly have no idea what some of these names were supposed to be when I see them because of that overzealous filter.
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Stick Insect posted:The word "douche" is sometimes censored. That means that as a Dutchman I can never tell others that I shower, or that they should shower. The ultimate example of this in my experience has been Gunbound. It did this to english speakers for the longest time, only the sensitive 'word' that was banned was 'tai'. Because apparently it means rear end in a top hat in Korean or something, I don't loving know. Point is, amusingly, you could get away with calling someone a poo poo-eater, but saying you were gonna kick their tail? Nnnnnnnnooooooooooooooo.
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GW2 offered a free gem-store (the real-money-currency) item very early on called Polla. it was a low level accessory item for some holiday, I think. Its name is now censored and you can't buy it on the store anymore. Polla is spanish for cock.
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I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I really do miss stgggs sometimes. He was always a great reminder about CS: Source and Garrys Mod and maybe I shouldn't reinstall and play again.
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LEGO Genetics posted:I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW I AM THE LAW You just can't beat the classics. 
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Chomp8645 posted:Bizarrely enough there was a profanity filter but profanity was also against the rules, even if it was regular spelling that didn't trick the filter. I remember we used to have discussions in raid over whether a particular high level d**** would drop, almost entirely just because Blizzard couldn't compose a word filter that took into account words they used in their own game.
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Ghostlight posted:One of my bans from the WoW forums was because a bunch of people were whining that profanity shouldn't be against the rules when there's a profanity filter and I dropped in to demonstrate how you could be really offensive without ever triggering a word list, and how everyone knew exactly what word was being censored in a sentence just from context anyway. Linking to http://www.wowgoons.com/ used to be bannable on the WoW forums on the grounds that it appears to be a solicitation for payment, but I don't know if it still is.
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Doesn't look like that site actually lets you sign up and transfer money. It reminds me of Eve Online goons, scamming others by promising that gets them into Goonswarm. Except with real money. I wish more MMOs permitted scamming and extortion as legitimate forms of gameplay. Throw in a little self-righteous roleplaying, and you get such wonderful things as http://www.minerbumping.com/ . Admittedly some players go a bit far go and add out-of-game humiliation into the mix. Edit: removed a lot of poo poo because I don't want to create discussion on what griefing is. Stick Insect fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Stick Insect posted:Doesn't look like that site actually lets you sign up and transfer money. It doesn't, it's just a troll. But Blizzard's mods were dumb, lazy people.
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I think I remember that the wow goons were one of the first guilds to hit maximum guild level so a bunch of goons ran around in one of the main cities spamming "GOONSQUAD BEST SQUAD" and "WORLD FIRST TOP GUILD" and whatnot. This pissed off pubbies, and they pointed out that some other guild had hit max level like a few hours earlier or something. We retaliated; several of us had that item that made everyone around you start dancing when you use it, plus the item that made everyone around you make train noises when you used it. So it was a wonderful cacophony of dumb voices making train noises (CHOO CHOO) and everyone being forced to dance like retards, against their will.
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QuarkJets posted:I think I remember that the wow goons were one of the first guilds to hit maximum guild level so a bunch of goons ran around in one of the main cities spamming "GOONSQUAD BEST SQUAD" and "WORLD FIRST TOP GUILD" and whatnot. This pissed off pubbies, and they pointed out that some other guild had hit max level like a few hours earlier or something. We retaliated; several of us had that item that made everyone around you start dancing when you use it, plus the item that made everyone around you make train noises when you used it. So it was a wonderful cacophony of dumb voices making train noises (CHOO CHOO) and everyone being forced to dance like retards, against their will. I remember spamming "GOON SQUAD WORLD SECOND WORLD FIRST".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDaR9oJT7cU "It's not RDM; it's not random if I'm consistent."
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a7m2 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDaR9oJT7cU
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Stick Insect posted:About that Reported mod, isn't cursing and swearing permitted in WoW? I remember that game had a filter for bad language; and you could just turn that off if you weren't bothered by it. I have been banned for a few days in WoW for cursing. I also was forced a name change because Judeophobia was really offensive to someone apparently. I also pointed out the fact that there was a profanity filter. They didn't care. Looked it up. Still got the email. Back in 2006. Offense: Harassment Policy Violation - Obscene/Vulgar This category includes both clear and masked language which: • Is crude and offensive in nature • Is an inappropriate reference to human anatomy or bodily functions • Is pornographic in nature Harassment Policy Violation - Inappropriate This category includes both clear and masked language which: • Is a mildly inappropriate reference to human anatomy or bodily functions • Is otherwise considered objectionable Details (Note - Times are listed in Greenwich Mean Time, GMT): 2007/05/20 04:21:26 Soulex LocalDefense - Nagrand SHUT THE gently caress UP ABOUT YOUR GODDAMN EGG 2007/05/20 04:22:20 Soulex LocalDefense - Nagrand hey this is me  this is someone who gives a gently caress :/ notice how they are 2 completely different people2007/05/20 04:23:44 Soulex LocalDefense - Nagrand jackass 2007/05/20 04:24:13 Soulex LocalDefense - Nagrand are you seriously this loving dumb? 2007/05/20 04:24:31 Soulex LocalDefense - Nagrand kill yourself before you reproduce 2007/05/20 04:25:46 Soulex LocalDefense - Nagrand loving moron
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