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by Eliah Hecht 
Sep 27th 2007 at 8:00AM
I got the idea for this breakfast topic when I saw the following two posts virtually back-to-back in the WoW forums: Reporting AFK'ers - a Pleasant Surprise, and AFK Reporting System Broken And Abused. The former tells the story of the AFK system going well, all the AFKers being removed from the game, and the Horde going on to win. The latter is from the perspective of a player who was erroneously flagged AFK, and asks for several changes to be made, including a limit to the number of AFK reports a player can make in a given amount of time. (It turns out that limit, while not user-visible, is already in place.)So there are obviously some diverging perspectives on this AFK debuff system thing. What do you all think of it, having had a couple days to check it out?
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
MechChef Sep 27th 2007 12:46PM
This pleases me. Blizzard gave us the tools dismantle the gravy-train. Time to earn your honor the hard way. /flex
robot rock Sep 27th 2007 1:47PM
I got reported for trying to get my trinket in the harpy cave....so I ran out and followed the raid.
I'll never get that damn trinket.
Doffencrag Sep 27th 2007 1:53PM
@21: If your co-players possess some intelligence, warn them in advance that you're going to get your trinket. I've seen someone tell the raid group ahead of time, and they seemed to have no problem with it. As long as you join the raid after, and not just hang out at the peace cave. :)
Communication is key. If people see someone on the map just heading off in an unpopulated area, it's very easy to assume that that person is just looking for an alternate crawlspace to afk in.
Of course, I had to quantify this ("If your co-players possess some intelligence"). They SHOULD understand. They all (or at least most of them) had to get their trinket at one time too.