Silenced

So it is Thursday. So I really should be finding something to go off about. Actually it is something that has been on my mind for a couple days. For those who are not aware, Blizzard is introducing something know as the silence penalty in World of Warcraft. It is as follows

Following the Legion pre-expansion, any player who is reported multiple times under the Spam or Abusive Chat categories will, after investigation, receive an account-wide silence penalty. While this penalty is active, the silenced player will find that their ability to chat with others is greatly limited.

If you would like to read the specifics and the whole article you can by clicking here

So what does this mean for Pi? As you can assume I am being asked. Well for those that don't know I have been using Pi for years to moderate trade chat when people have asked for it. I oblige as to not spam. Now that has never stopped people from reporting me for spam or any such thing. Does leave me to wonder if I would qualify for something like this though. Since I know reporting for such an act will happen. I am sure any real investigation and a non bot oriented one wouldn't have nay problems. I guess we won't know though until it happens.

Hopefully Pi will be forever an item that will be part of trade. I don't know if the Horde of Llane would ever be the same without it.

Account Hackers

So like anyone who plays WoW I can name a bunch of people I know who have gotten hacked. They may have got hacked in a variety of ways. Go to websites they shouldn't have, guild website was logged, bugged addon, keyloggers, bought gold, or even responded to an email they shouldn't have. Now I don't think I have ever heard of someone who has been hacked because they believed one of those whispers everyone is sent in game. Why? Well I think you all know the English is absolutely horrible and even someone who only speaks broken English can obviously tell it is fake. Think for a second, if the language made sense would you think twice about it? Now I would tend to argue many would. Regardless, you might pick up on the name and clue in to the fact that why wouldn't Blizzard just cut off your account. The point being some people are idiots, but even idiots can tell when someone cannot speak English.

So what is this all about? Well I fear for the day that these account hackers learn how to at least type sentences that make a moderate amount of sense. Also this brings me to the point that, they should know this. They should know that you could basically fool 50% of the WoW population by typing in a form of English that at least that 50% would see as correct enough. They would of course get the result they were in fact looking for.

Guess I just gave a pro tip to the hackers. Long weekend starts tomorrow!

You Fail at Trade Spam if...

First off I didn't expect the massive amount of replies I got especially having my email jammed enough to make me think I was seeing things. I may have to give myself more than just till Friday to sort through them all, but I will try my best to get it out by then.

So now for every one's favourite type of post the fail ones

You fail at trade spam if...

• People continue to talk about whatever they were talking about. Meaning you failed to change the subject.
• Your advertising messages are dull an boring and offer nothing to say ah that is that guy again. Offer a cupcake or say "Death to the Living" like two guys I know.
• It is guild recruitment spam. This is very fail you should talk to Bagellord so that you can go from full of fail to epic fail. I am sure he would be glad to help you out. He's famous didn't you know?
• You're a ret pally spamming you are looking for a group. Do us a favour respec, reroll or kill yourself. Whichever is the quickest
• You insist on being run through a low level instance. So much so that I can only see your crap for the last 10 lines. You have proved you fail, and I would think this may be a the reason you need a run through in the first place.
• Your name is retarded. I just am unable to get past this, and will only be thinking of ways to make fun of you further. This is especially bad if I was actually interested in what you were saying or doing.
• You try to use raid icons. This becomes epic fail when you keep trying or ask why they aren't working. Or say "it really does look cool when it works". If I saw you I would /point /laugh
• You tried to be awesome and draw a picture except it doesn't line up and you look like a moron. So you wasted your time and looked like a dumbass. Congrats to you!
• Your in a guild called [Premade] looking for people for a premade. This just always makes me /faceplam
• You have been trying to sell an item for 20minutes I offer to buy it from you so you will just shut up, and you tell me to hold on while you figure out how much to sell it for. You really are that Special kind of stupid
• You're looking for a group for Naxx. Like honestly who does Naxx? Don't waste my chat screen with this crap.
• You're a gold farmer who can actually spell. Like wtf the only reason I read you ads is because I love reading them over and over because its funny to make fun of people who don't speak English well. Am I the only one who thinks this way?
• You are trying to make a For the Horde group. Honestly who is going to go with you? Like really? Go hang out with Bagellord.
• You are a level 8 spamming asking for respect money. At least if you're going to beg don't do it in trade and like of a much better excuse.
• You think you won an argument and talk about how you won the Internet for 20 minutes. Too bad you didn't and everyone is laughing at you will you are celebrating. Think about it this way. If you win in the special Olympics guess what you're still retarded.

and lastly and most importantly

• It's not Pi

and so it was written. Till tomorrow!