Players are currently exploiting the mute system to discover alts of other players and then announcing those alts in 100 via the relay. The way the mute system currently works in VO, is that when someone messages a muted player, the game responds "blah is mute". Since mutes are account wide, creative players are making educated guesses about who the toon belongs to, and then are announcing those guesses publicly.

This is clearly exploitative and toxic. The mute system should be a way for players to learn from their past transgressions while still being able to play the game. Being farther punished by having their alts outed publicly, is very toxic and counter to this system.

This is not a bug, as the system is operating as designed. Perhaps you could re-phrase it as a suggestion in the appropriate forum.

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