I'm a potty mouth, now get over it!

Last night I ran an instance with 3 guildies and a stranger. This guy had abysmal gear, and kept saying "Oh can I need that?" on every single non-caster blue/green BoE and BoP that dropped. After a while, I caught on to his game, when he rolled need on a neck with +11 agil / +20 atp that was a BoE, then equipped it, and several pulls later, had his old +20 str / +10 stam neck on. I checked his other gear, his gun was the same weaker gun, and etc.

He was using lower gear on purpose to get more items. So we told him to stop needing BoE's and only need BoE's if he would equip them. We told him to pass on the BoP's he didn't need, and we would DE the item and /roll on the shards.

At the end (this is a hunter mind you) a caster ring with int/spell hit rating and a platemail leg piece dropped from the last boss. We all passed, and our DE rolled need. He said "Screw you suckers!" and needed and instance hopped.

ninja looters happen.
Did I mention how he didn't bring enough ammo and ran out 1/2 way thru, had no pet food, and left aspect on the pack on during a pull?


Anyway... the issue starts here. When we go outside, I tell my friends to meet me somewhere, and I run there. He shows up and starts calling me a noob, and trying to mock our guild looting rules etc. Having heard enough of this losers mouth, I told him nice and good. Called him some things I obviously can't repeat here, and told him to do things you'd never tell your mom to do. His next words? "Reported."

Now I disregarded this, obviously a GM would not take action on me for being pushed into a corner, or being provoked into bursting out. Obviously I was wrong. I went to sleep, and woke up this morning to find an email saying I now have a warning on my account for rude language, because I sent a whisper to someone telling them to blank off.


Now when I found out about this, I felt really abused and I called a GM, and several arguments later, we came to this conclusion together:

"Ninja Looting can happen, and GM's do nothing about it. The reason is because there is a loot system in place to prevent ninja looting from happening. Language can get you banned though, because although we have a profanity filter which can be used by anyone who finds language offensive, and an ignore feature so anyone who is being harassed can simply type /ignore.... we like to use a double standard, and you can get in trouble for it."

That seem fair to anyone? You can ninja loot, and harass them, but the second you curse them, you get a warning.


This is the most blasphemous thing I've seen in a long time, and I really feel like blizzard is harassing me because i like to use language they don't like. If I want to type or talk the way I want, then I think it should be allowed. Thats what the filter is there for after all.