[2023] Culture Shift WG - Negative

I remember the thread you made. You did a comparison and thought we had only half as many battles played in February, which sounded rather scary.

I looked into the battle numbers and found the number of battles played was slightly higher in February than the previous year, so the data method you were using didn't work out.

If I recall, YouSatInGum used pulls from either ProShips or MapleSyrup? The goal was to compare overall from previous year to overall from current year, but the result wasn't correct.

I can inquire if I can present some basic data to you under the CC NDA. Please reach out to me and we'll loop in some folks to see what's possible.

This is not correct. The CC program involves us reaching out to a creator and saying that we'd like to have a better relationship. We provide some amount of NDA information, test ships, and access to game assets that can help with content creation. That isn't employment by any means.

Our EULA prohibits harassment.

We are direct in having rules that show we don't condone those behaviors in our game.

Stat-Shaming is also specifically referenced in our Community Code of Conduct as well and is not allowed:

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As stated in the response to @Navalpride33, the CC program is more about having a partnership with creators and helping them to grow and provide better content through having greater access to us and our game. Our rules govern in-game behavior, but behaviors that go against our values can and do weigh heavily in the scope of being publicly partnered with someone.

Jingles left the CC program back in 2021. Quickybaby is a WoT CC, I believe? Each product has a different team so I'm not at all aware of anything on the Tanks side of things.

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As I mentioned, our rules govern in-game behavior. Our Community Cody of Conduct governs behavior on our various community platforms. Both of those do show what we value.

While you are correct that Twitch and YouTube are neither in-game or directly part of our community platforms, we do hope that people we affiliate with align with our values as well. This is a fairly common practice in any industry.

You can use Reports for Misbehavior in Chat if the chat isn't ok but isn't egregious. If there are enough Reports then the account will receive an automated review for issues and sanction if issues are found.

However, for egregious stuff that goes above and beyond, please make a CS Ticket: https://na.wargaming.net/support/en/products/wows/help/31336/31337/31345/

CS Tickets allow a human to evaluate the situation and escalate it as appropriate. CS Tickets can result in much more severe actions than any automated system will. Please send me a message with the Ticket # as well to make CM's aware of it, too.