Oops, you’re right. I was thinking that Duels arrived with the second expansion of the year rather than the third. If it was only available for a couple months, those numbers are really good.
Firstly there are may be many players named GustVx
Secondly, whilst I appreciate it is annoying (or amusing depending on your outlook) to have people be rude following a friend request, such a thread would a) likely not work due to a playerbase of millions and b) be open to abuse.
It won't fit the more considered/grown up approach OOC takes. Maybe try HPWN? :P
While it's good to set the blacklist, I don't agree pointing someone bad for any reason. The idea could be misleading when you add someone just because you don't like the way they play, or for any simple nonsense reason.
I guess you could set it for another purpose, like someone cheating out the Play a Friend Quest.
Just like Hearthpwn, and they have more refined list. But it's not too late to start another list, new site attracts new players (sort of) or somehow merged it with Hearthpwn? (Flux?) You decide.
"Courts have defined harassment as it is commonly understood: repeated words, conduct, or action that serve no legitimate purpose and are directed at a specific person to annoy, alarm, or distress that person." (criminaldefenselawyer.com)
This behavior can only be "repeated" if you let it. The moment someone you added starts flaming you, just unfriend them. Or, if you're really concerned about this type of thing, just don't accept friend requests.
I've had this happen several times (I'm sure we all have), and ultimately, it's just sad that people feel the need to do this to strangers, and over a game no less. But it's just words from some anonymous loser on the internet. Ignore it and move on.
Your shame list, while clearly well-intentioned, is not a good idea.
For me this is a hard no. This thread can create indirect, targeted harassment.
I get that no one enjoys winning or losing a game just to have a salt lick of a human being add you just to talk shit. I don’t think that any respectable person should engage in activities such as this because all this does is put their name on a list they they can’t get rid of. What if one day the dude you listed changes how he conducts himself
Just remove them from your friends list and move on with your day.
While I get it, and I worry about targeted harassment against people pointed out, they have here a place to retort if they want and feel wronged (normally people like this don't or cry out against hard evidence...)
Too many times I've been harassed not just in game, but in real life, and having the chance of knowing that X person would try to approach me with a friend request to drive me crazy, I would never have added them in the first place.
I get that preemptive denial is a bad thing, but a lot of the times a person that harass anyone for no motive but saltiness or personal problems IRL, keeps on harassing non stop for long periods of time. And yeah, they could be good with their friends, good to a lot of people, but at the end of the day, being good to everyone, and then bully a person just for the sake of it, yeah, THAT's a hard no for me.
Nope, I don't think this is a good idea either. Ethically, I'm with griffior which is the most important point.
I also think this wouldn't work very well. With 23 million people playing HS chances are VERY low one of us plays against the same opponent AND gets targeted by their bm AND bothers to look here before accepting a request.
For me this is a hard no. This thread can create indirect, targeted harassment.
I get that no one enjoys winning or losing a game just to have a salt lick of a human being add you just to talk shit. I don’t think that any respectable person should engage in activities such as this because all this does is put their name on a list they they can’t get rid of. What if one day the dude you listed changes how he conducts himself
Just remove them from your friends list and move on with your day.
I thought about this thread for a long long time, and given you can ignore friend requests, and you can report users in the launcher for harassment, but there are a lot of salty people out there, that can send you a request after a relatively normal game and then start to harass you endlessly until you kick them out or they just go away after driving you a little insane and they just get bored out.
So, this would be the place where you could preemptively get an idea of WHO are you adding.
The idea is to give a name and the reason you're pointing it out, maybe a screenshot if you managed to take one.
I'll update this post to add names, and call out why they show up here.
I have a question unrelated to the deck itself - how do you know that Greybough is a "she"? Apart from the Dame Hazelbark, who I treated as a joke character, I have never consider the gender/sex of the Trent minions. I am not saying that you are wrong with Greybough , just genuinely curious.
It begs the question of why they reported battlegrounds differently from all of the other stats. It's literally the only stat that says anything about hours at all.
My job involves making a lot of decisions over how best to present data to maximise clarity, and I completely agree with Blizz' choice on this. I guess the first thing to establish is which is the most natural unit to use to measure the amount of stuff done in Hearthstone? Is it player hours or matches played? You can come up with arguments for both, and under different circumstances they each seem more appropriate than the other. For example, if you hop on just to do a daily quest, you maybe turn up for 3 games, irrespective of how long that takes. On another occasion you might have set aside 2 hours to play in, and the number of games in that time is actually unimportant.
In the end, I lean more towards matches played being the most natural unit because that is how the game is discretised. Also, aside from other things going on outside of the game, players don't choose to leave mid-game, even if that game crosses the end of the time they set aside to play in. So ideally, I'd put all relevant data in terms of the number of games played, and be content that converting it to player hours is quite easy with a quick estimate of the time spent per game.
Quite easy, except in BG that is. We obviously cannot treat it as 8 players from start to finish, making it a complicated matter to try to estimate the typical time per game per player. And that's before worrying about up to 6 of the players going on to start a new game while the original one continues, giving potentially 7 simultaneous games involving the players that started in 1, even before that 1 has finished. Working all of this out for BG is surely a fun endeavour for the mathematically minded among us, but for most people the number of games played in BG is really difficult to interpret despite it looking simple initially. As a result, BG falls back on hours played.
Having done that, it is reasonable argue for doing everything in terms of hours played to keep everything consistent, but since BG is the odd one out I'd prefer to leave the rest of them in their own natural units without BG complicating it for all game modes. This is doubly true since past year reviews discussed the number of matches played, so being consistent with BG comes at the cost of making it difficult to compare across time.
Yeah this interest me too. I was looking for it during the Snowpocalypse event, it was pain when someone not really active hit me and I was trying to find them to hit them back. Even some choice to sort the names of members from A-Z would help.
Clever. Sorry for being a spoilsport, I guess. I didn't even bother to dig into it to be fair, and hearing the answer is a real facepalm making me wish I didn't give up so easily
To clarify, I mean a search bar where you can search up members of the site. All I’ve seen so far is the “recently active members” on the “forums” section
@Live4vrRdieTryin Basically, GHAX SCPTAUCHRH is a homophone of PHASE STALKER if you pronounce GH as in “Laughing Sister”, A as in “Flame Elemental”, X as in “Xaril, Poisoned Mind”, SC as in “Disciple of C'Thun”, PT as in “Ravenous Pterrordax”, AU as in “Bladed Gauntlet”, CH as in “Dr. Boom's Scheme” and RH as in ”Tundra Rhino”. As you can see it’s easy once you know the catch, the real challenge is coming to that line of thought.
And yeah, I understand where you’re coming from, but I still want to shake things up once in a while, since just rhyme formats get pretty boring after 86 pages. I really don’t think this one was too outlandish, it just requires a bit of a non-traditional approach to code-cracking
If you read out loud the code in the way the letters are pronounced in the cards we we're given, you're getting there. Technically we wouldn't even have needed the cards to solve the code. It's about how letters are pronounced differently, like the P in Pterrodax is silent. I'm not a native speaker, but roughly it looks like this:
It was a very cool riddle after all, but phonetics wasn't something I've expected at all. Wasn't somebody's signature something like "First rule of the english language: They our know rulez"? I think it was KANSAS, but they have a different one now.
Okay, we're due for an explanation on how that was solved. I gave it a cursory review saying the names out loud and all it confirmed is that either I'm daft or that the riddle was too eclectic. Let's hear it.
Again, as much as I admire these types of riddles they really alienate a lot of the traffic to this thread.
Hearthstone Had 23.5 Million Active Players in 2020 - Year of the Phoenix Stats
Oops, you’re right. I was thinking that Duels arrived with the second expansion of the year rather than the third. If it was only available for a couple months, those numbers are really good.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
Firstly there are may be many players named GustVx
Secondly, whilst I appreciate it is annoying (or amusing depending on your outlook) to have people be rude following a friend request, such a thread would a) likely not work due to a playerbase of millions and b) be open to abuse.
It won't fit the more considered/grown up approach OOC takes. Maybe try HPWN? :P
Search bar for members on the site
Exactly this. But as a workaround I just noticed that typing into the browser address bar something like https://outof.cards/members/madcat/ works.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
While it's good to set the blacklist, I don't agree pointing someone bad for any reason. The idea could be misleading when you add someone just because you don't like the way they play, or for any simple nonsense reason.
I guess you could set it for another purpose, like someone cheating out the Play a Friend Quest.
Just like Hearthpwn, and they have more refined list. But it's not too late to start another list, new site attracts new players (sort of) or somehow merged it with Hearthpwn? (Flux?) You decide.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
"Courts have defined harassment as it is commonly understood: repeated words, conduct, or action that serve no legitimate purpose and are directed at a specific person to annoy, alarm, or distress that person." (criminaldefenselawyer.com)
This behavior can only be "repeated" if you let it. The moment someone you added starts flaming you, just unfriend them. Or, if you're really concerned about this type of thing, just don't accept friend requests.
I've had this happen several times (I'm sure we all have), and ultimately, it's just sad that people feel the need to do this to strangers, and over a game no less. But it's just words from some anonymous loser on the internet. Ignore it and move on.
Your shame list, while clearly well-intentioned, is not a good idea.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
While I get it, and I worry about targeted harassment against people pointed out, they have here a place to retort if they want and feel wronged (normally people like this don't or cry out against hard evidence...)
Too many times I've been harassed not just in game, but in real life, and having the chance of knowing that X person would try to approach me with a friend request to drive me crazy, I would never have added them in the first place.
I get that preemptive denial is a bad thing, but a lot of the times a person that harass anyone for no motive but saltiness or personal problems IRL, keeps on harassing non stop for long periods of time. And yeah, they could be good with their friends, good to a lot of people, but at the end of the day, being good to everyone, and then bully a person just for the sake of it, yeah, THAT's a hard no for me.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
Nope, I don't think this is a good idea either. Ethically, I'm with griffior which is the most important point.
I also think this wouldn't work very well. With 23 million people playing HS chances are VERY low one of us plays against the same opponent AND gets targeted by their bm AND bothers to look here before accepting a request.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
For me this is a hard no. This thread can create indirect, targeted harassment.
I get that no one enjoys winning or losing a game just to have a salt lick of a human being add you just to talk shit. I don’t think that any respectable person should engage in activities such as this because all this does is put their name on a list they they can’t get rid of. What if one day the dude you listed changes how he conducts himself
Just remove them from your friends list and move on with your day.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
Any feedback is really appreciated.
The Blacklist - A place to point out toxic people
Welcome to The Blacklist!
I thought about this thread for a long long time, and given you can ignore friend requests, and you can report users in the launcher for harassment, but there are a lot of salty people out there, that can send you a request after a relatively normal game and then start to harass you endlessly until you kick them out or they just go away after driving you a little insane and they just get bored out.
So, this would be the place where you could preemptively get an idea of WHO are you adding.
The idea is to give a name and the reason you're pointing it out, maybe a screenshot if you managed to take one.
I'll update this post to add names, and call out why they show up here.
The Blacklist
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I have a question unrelated to the deck itself - how do you know that Greybough is a "she"? Apart from the Dame Hazelbark, who I treated as a joke character, I have never consider the gender/sex of the Trent minions. I am not saying that you are wrong with Greybough , just genuinely curious.
Help me reach Legend!
What's wrong with Tempo Storm, my good sir?
Hearthstone Had 23.5 Million Active Players in 2020 - Year of the Phoenix Stats
My job involves making a lot of decisions over how best to present data to maximise clarity, and I completely agree with Blizz' choice on this. I guess the first thing to establish is which is the most natural unit to use to measure the amount of stuff done in Hearthstone? Is it player hours or matches played? You can come up with arguments for both, and under different circumstances they each seem more appropriate than the other. For example, if you hop on just to do a daily quest, you maybe turn up for 3 games, irrespective of how long that takes. On another occasion you might have set aside 2 hours to play in, and the number of games in that time is actually unimportant.
In the end, I lean more towards matches played being the most natural unit because that is how the game is discretised. Also, aside from other things going on outside of the game, players don't choose to leave mid-game, even if that game crosses the end of the time they set aside to play in. So ideally, I'd put all relevant data in terms of the number of games played, and be content that converting it to player hours is quite easy with a quick estimate of the time spent per game.
Quite easy, except in BG that is. We obviously cannot treat it as 8 players from start to finish, making it a complicated matter to try to estimate the typical time per game per player. And that's before worrying about up to 6 of the players going on to start a new game while the original one continues, giving potentially 7 simultaneous games involving the players that started in 1, even before that 1 has finished. Working all of this out for BG is surely a fun endeavour for the mathematically minded among us, but for most people the number of games played in BG is really difficult to interpret despite it looking simple initially. As a result, BG falls back on hours played.
Having done that, it is reasonable argue for doing everything in terms of hours played to keep everything consistent, but since BG is the odd one out I'd prefer to leave the rest of them in their own natural units without BG complicating it for all game modes. This is doubly true since past year reviews discussed the number of matches played, so being consistent with BG comes at the cost of making it difficult to compare across time.
Search bar for members on the site
Yeah this interest me too. I was looking for it during the Snowpocalypse event, it was pain when someone not really active hit me and I was trying to find them to hit them back. Even some choice to sort the names of members from A-Z would help.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Ah, my English is bad. No chance to solve riddles like this.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Clever. Sorry for being a spoilsport, I guess. I didn't even bother to dig into it to be fair, and hearing the answer is a real facepalm making me wish I didn't give up so easily
Search bar for members on the site
Do we have that? If yes, where? If not, how come?
To clarify, I mean a search bar where you can search up members of the site. All I’ve seen so far is the “recently active members” on the “forums” section
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
@Live4vrRdieTryin Basically, GHAX SCPTAUCHRH is a homophone of PHASE STALKER if you pronounce GH as in “Laughing Sister”, A as in “Flame Elemental”, X as in “Xaril, Poisoned Mind”, SC as in “Disciple of C'Thun”, PT as in “Ravenous Pterrordax”, AU as in “Bladed Gauntlet”, CH as in “Dr. Boom's Scheme” and RH as in ”Tundra Rhino”. As you can see it’s easy once you know the catch, the real challenge is coming to that line of thought.
And yeah, I understand where you’re coming from, but I still want to shake things up once in a while, since just rhyme formats get pretty boring after 86 pages. I really don’t think this one was too outlandish, it just requires a bit of a non-traditional approach to code-cracking
edit: oh, @anchorm4n beat me to it lol
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
If you read out loud the code in the way the letters are pronounced in the cards we we're given, you're getting there. Technically we wouldn't even have needed the cards to solve the code. It's about how letters are pronounced differently, like the P in Pterrodax is silent. I'm not a native speaker, but roughly it looks like this:
GH is pronounced "f" in Laughing Sister
A - a
X - s/z
SC - s
PT - t
AU - o
CH - k
RH - r
"faz stokr" = Phase Stalker
It was a very cool riddle after all, but phonetics wasn't something I've expected at all. Wasn't somebody's signature something like "First rule of the english language: They our know rulez"? I think it was KANSAS, but they have a different one now.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Okay, we're due for an explanation on how that was solved. I gave it a cursory review saying the names out loud and all it confirmed is that either I'm daft or that the riddle was too eclectic. Let's hear it.
Again, as much as I admire these types of riddles they really alienate a lot of the traffic to this thread.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Told ya lol
@JFK got it, well done!
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Phase Stalker
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Alright, alright, here’s the final hint:
Try reading the names of the cards out loud
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
I'm just here because I like to write short rhymes. Puzzles like this are why I stopped posting in this thread.
Anyways, Molten Giant. I'm gonna get there eventually.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Kind of riddle we should be getting paid to solve...