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There is actually a benefit to your oppponent bm'ing. I experienced in lower ranks people BM'ing me with emotes before the game was done. Games where a mage with one card in hand and you on 8hp says well played before he/she can play the obvious Pyroblast you have in hand. I had two turns lethal at that time and  a self heal in hand (playing C'thun Priest sometimes when WotG was released). Healed myself to 20 with the healing c'thun minion priest had (forgot the name) and heropower, got to go face to set up lethal for sure. Mage had only pyroblast so couldn't kill me.

Tl;dr I could predict the play of my opponent because of a small bm-ing emote. Reading your opponents emotes is a form of play.

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Quote from Milagros1453 >>

 Yet moral deficiency and destructive behaviors don't go away by turning a blind eye.

 They also don't go away because you whined about them on a third-party message board.

No one -- literally not one person -- who reads this thread is going to change their behavior.

In fact, I'd say the more destructive behavior here is cluttering up the forum with more of these asinine "BM" threads when there have already been a million of them. You can Squelch your Hearthstone opponent, but the rest of us have no reasonable way to filter idiotic threads off the list, other than to report them, which causes extra work for the mods.

So you're telling me hotchickgamergurl95 isn't a hot chick gamer girl but a 45 year old man? 

OT: Yeah I've noticed people have been jerks lately while on ladder. Especially the warriors with double mortal strike about to die the next turn. 

I think with the prevalence of net decks and aggro decks bm is more common. I constantly see idiots bm when they do something I predicted 4 turns earlier. Once I punish their obvious plays I start bming every time possible

All of these threads could go away if only Blizzard would add in autosquelch. Then the "skillful" and "genuine" emoters could do their thing and people like me who get tilted when they forget to squelch could blissfully ignore them and have a better gaming experience. There is literally no downside to adding in autosquelch, and the fact that that it's still not there speaks volumes about Blizzards contempt and arrogance toward their players. The even sadder thing is the people who defend Blizzards deficiencies in this area. 

Actually I've found less bm since the release of Un'goro but during MSoG I've faced tons of them, don't know why that shift but anyway I agree that an auto-squelch option will be appreciated otherwise I'll just spent 1 sec. to mute them manually.

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Quote from Milagros1453 >>

 Yet moral deficiency and destructive behaviors don't go away by turning a blind eye.

 They also don't go away because you whined about them on a third-party message board.

No one -- literally not one person -- who reads this thread is going to change their behavior.

In fact, I'd say the more destructive behavior here is cluttering up the forum with more of these asinine "BM" threads when there have already been a million of them. You can Squelch your Hearthstone opponent, but the rest of us have no reasonable way to filter idiotic threads off the list, other than to report them, which causes extra work for the mods.

 <snip>  You're literally raging at a person who expresses their frustration. <snip>

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Quote from FortyDust>>

Quote from Milagros1453>>

 Yet moral deficiency and destructive behaviors don't go away by turning a blind eye.

 They also don't go away because you whined about them on a third-party message board.

No one -- literally not one person -- who reads this thread is going to change their behavior.

In fact, I'd say the more destructive behavior here is cluttering up the forum with more of these asinine "BM" threads when there have already been a million of them. You can Squelch your Hearthstone opponent, but the rest of us have no reasonable way to filter idiotic threads off the list, other than to report them, which causes extra work for the mods.

 <snip>  You're literally raging at a person who expresses their frustration. <snip>

If you think you're "making a difference" by posting your thoughts here, you needed to be informed of your error. You're welcome.

 

 

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 You can't really blame someone for being bothered by saying the intention of bothering them was never there to begin with. 

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 You can't really blame someone for being bothered by saying the intention of bothering them was never there to begin with. 

 Yes, I can, and I do.

Unless they are spamming (an exception I did mention), you cannot claim to know the intention the person emoting.

Therefore, you CHOOSE to be bothered by it.

Therefore, YOU are at fault, regardless of the other person's intention.

Moreover, you are doubly to blame if you do not Squelch at the start of every game, since you already know you are incapable of accepting any emote in a positive light.

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Emotes don't usually bother me.  Things that do bother me are:

1)  When your opponent intentionally ignores lethal damage and essentially forces you either to concede or spend another 5 turns getting toyed with.

2)  When you opponent plays a bunch of cards, even though they have the win on the board.

3)  And the #1, when someone adds to as a friend for sole purpose of talking $#!+

3.5)  The super-slow thing is annoying, too, but  someone already mentioned, you can just walk away for a bit.