Apparently some guilds in SWTOR use something called squelch abuse. The squelch system works as an anti-spamming system, that automatically revokes all chat/mail privileges for a player if someone were to send out the same message repetitively – Think credit sellers etc. This system has also been expanded to reporting spam, and apparently people are coordinating to abuse the system to report non-spammers of spamming to trigger the system to grief players they don’t like. 3t4j
Eric Musco went on the forums to post Bioware’s stance on it:
Sucks to be Squelched | 03.21.2016, 12:59 PM
Hey folks,
Let’s report Credit Sellers and any other spammers you encounter as it is helping!
Lately, we’ve been receiving reports of this action is taken by a Guild, we will be particularly tough on Guild Masters and Guild Officers who coordinate, participate, or simply do not stop their Guild from abusing the squelch system.
If you have been on the receiving end, what you must not do is retaliate! If you do, you have added yourself to the list of participants and you are game play of legitimate players.
-eric
