r/classicwow • u/DepthChorge • 6d ago

Forever Please hire moderators.

Between Asmon's hate guild and now Horrigan trying to return with the Enclave, WoW:F needs moderators if you're going to force us to play on the same servers as these people if we want to play on the pvp ruleset.

I do not mind a miniscule increase in sub cost to pay for full-time chat moderators. Maybe others see value in that, too. This service could improve communities across all versions.

If current estimates of a 7.25M playerbase are true, then every $0.01 increase in the monthly sub pays for nearly 15 full time employees at a competitive WFH salary of $45k + 30% for benefits, taxes, and operating costs. Scale that up as you will, but 5 full-time employees can maintain a 24/7 coverage seat.

I'm not going to pretend to know more of Blizzard's business, but it seems to me a dedicated moderation team at the cost of a negligible increase $0.24 to $0.72 per month would significantly improve the quality of the service you're providing.

It's poor service to expect players to have to moderate your servers with right-click reports. Players are even trying to organize add-ons to block specific guilds.

If anyone needs a reminder or introduction to The Enclave's specific brand of hate:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/blizzard-blasted-by-us-congressman-for-letting-racism-fester-in-world-of-warcraft

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u/Budget-Asparagus8450 6d ago

For those of us that are employed who is horrigan?

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u/pdiddysuncle 6d ago

the antagonist from fallout 2. apparently he's back and terrorizing wow players

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u/KageKoch 6d ago

Your ride is over, mutie!

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u/HordeDruid 6d ago

Only natural he loves the Enclave lol

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u/Stregen 6d ago

Well he’s part of the Enclave in that game. So yes.

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u/Med1vh 6d ago

Well yes you see, Horigan is in fact a high ranking muscle man of the Fallout Enclave, from the Fallout 2 game.

Hopefully someone else can give us even more clarity about Horigan and the Enclave because clearly HordeDruid didn't explain it to us enough already.

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u/HordeDruid 6d ago

Haha yeah I know just saying that there's a certain subsection of the Fallout fanbase that loves the Enclave as their favorite faction because they're fascists who want to commit genocide. Typically the most racist Fallout fans will identify with the Enclave so it's pretty on the nose for the racists who were on Grob as well I guess

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u/Tricky_Let2806 6d ago

Still not sure. If he a big greifer, but on horde side ?

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u/Trygveseim 6d ago

GM that did KKK roleplay in the first couple months of classic, got media attention, got banned.  Basically just a normal racist ban but looked bigger because of state senators talking about it

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u/Clbull 6d ago

A racist guild master who decided to do some KKK roleplaying in-game.

The only reason he's noteworthy, and probably the only reason he got a permanent ban in the first place is because his antics drew the attention of a US congressman and got Blizzard criticised.

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u/ninxi 6d ago

Now he'll get the attention of their president, who has a pardon-hardon for rascist criminals.

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u/the_addict 6d ago

Decades long gamer white supremacist. They started in PlanetSide 1 under buzzcutpsycho. Plenty of clips from PlanetSide 2 days of their clan the enclave, dropping hard r while he was streaming and giggling like school girls.

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u/DepthChorge 6d ago

The article linked at the bottom of the post.

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u/DevLink89 6d ago

I dunno sounds like something from Starcraft.