Does “Report Player” do anything anymore? Does it still track internally how many times a player is reported? Does it lead to banning at all? My guess is no but wanted to ask.
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Before they would give out E-Mails that someone got punished. I got about 25 of those when game was somehow still active. Now I got nothing. Does reporting people for afk/feeding works ? No one knows. Only thing we know is abuse chat report still works cause I still see low lvl accounts with silence mark on them.
Maybe it works but you wont get notified about it.
As a man with 31 accounts it still works. It’s fully automated.
X amount of reports within Y amount of time.
31 accounts lol. And here am I with my Beta account that have yet to be banned.
That’s because you are casual / nice af.
My alpha account was banned for saying “git gud” – actual reason given to me in my support ticket.
Clown world. Everything that is woke turns to shït.
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Reporting still functions:
- Getting enough of the correct report will lead to an account getting silenced and banned.
- The threat of a ban does reduce some behaviors from select players.
However, since people don’t think the report functions work, or they don’t understand it, they don’t use it correctly which leads to further reinforcing their idea that it doesn’t work, so they don’t use it.
A punishment system only deters people that are affected by seeing the ban as a ‘punishment’. However, since the game is free to play, it doesn’t prevent chronic cases from making a new account to repeat the problematic behaviors.
Since the system has known rules, it also means it has known exploits. Players that deliberately want to ‘game’ the system can do so with little negative consequence: they can have multiple accounts of the same name, similar rank, games played, and just rotate through the duplicates so any single one is hard to accumulate enough reports in sufficient time to get them sanctioned.
This is especially frustrating if they make accounts to echo the name of ‘legit’ players, so looking up replays on Heroesprofile or the like can find camouflage that indicates said player doesn’t do the offensive actions ‘all the time’.
There are a set of intentional griefers that seem like they ‘never’ get punished for afk or feeding, especially by players who don’t think reports do anything, so they don’t report to allow the system to do something. Similarly, you get some that don’t know how the system works, so they default to reporting for the incorrect offense (using ‘abusive chat’ instead of feeding or non-participation) so players that don’t use chat at all won’t be punished for a system checking their chat logs, or players that intentionally skirt the afk timer by feeding, but not getting correctly reported for that offense increase the visibility of the reports seemingly not working correctly.
What tends to be the biggest set of punishments are neurodivergent players that lack a sense of self-awareness – esp guilt for their own actions – and do not develop their neural pathways for understanding “Cause” and “Effect”. They tend to overcompensate their lack of understanding with fixated blaming and conspiracy theories. They get ‘triggered,’ get mass reported, get banned, but then make a new account and repeat the cycle.
So you can find some people have dozens of accounts and they will not have a shred of shame for their actions: it’s “blizzards fault” or the universe is unfairly out to get them. They have a creed and it tends to override ‘rational’ thinking such that they do cannot correctly identify consistent elements from one game to the next.
Imagine trying to oppress free speech and general smack talk in competitive games centered around war, death, and destruction. This philosophy, along with not putting out quality + neglecting the player-base, is why Blizzard shât the bed as a company. The clowns who think reporting people for saying “you suck” is justified are the same soy boys who thought D3 was a good continuation of the Diablo franchise.
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What you are asserting isn’t verifiable, and isn’t even justifiably ‘true’. It’s just overgeneralization to fault something to blame. You don’t know what ‘rights’ are involved, care when you infringe on other actual ‘rights’, and you’re acting to the “T” of what I spelled out above.
Freedom of speech, also called free speech, means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government
The Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment
The First Amendment’s constitutional right of free speech…prevents only government restrictions on speech, not restrictions imposed by private individuals or businesses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States
use of wiki for convenience, but it’s not as if I couldn’t post other references to this understanding of what ‘rights’ are protected, or importantly, “why”.
People may think Blizzard is magically “big brother” to justify it as being some sort of ‘government’, but you’re on privately held property and are thus subject to their rights more so than your own. It’d be nice if people would bother to be educated on what their rights actually entail instead of pretending that ignorance is empowering, let alone use it as rationalization for unprotected conduct that infringes on their ‘rights’ they so claim to care about, but demonstrably do not.
If you manage to look past your own nose, you might notice how a number of restrictions of ‘free speech’ are involved in a number of other things you’d otherwise enjoy, but likely haven’t thought two wits about it because they didn’t offend you personally about it.
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Or it indicates I’m educated and know what my ‘rights’ actually entail instead of being an ignoramus. There are select areas were free speech holds, and places where it does not. If you go into a McDonald’s calling people obscene names, you’re going to find your ‘rights’ restricted regardless of you asserting them to be ‘commies’ or ‘woke’; they have private rights and do not want you to disrupt their business.
The constitution was founded by passionate, but knowledgeable people, it’d be nice if others were more aware of that to carry on its legacy instead of degrading themselves with their imagined offense and willful neglect. You’re trying to act high-and-mighty about name calling, but here you are being offended by it and acting like others should be too.
Your double-standards work against yourself, friend.
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Ever heard parents telling thier kids if you behave you get an extra chrismas present. If you dont then its off to the shame corner ?
It does not cost you a single cent to be nice to others. If you nice to others they will be nice to you. Be hostile to others and you get rewarded same way. Thats why I have never been banned while you hide behind 31 accounts casue you somehow need them to avoid getting banned by the people you personally attack.
Being hostile in an online game is just a bad excuse to avoid fixing your own anger problems. Your freedom of speetch does not protect you from the consequences of your actions either.
Lucky you, I’ve tried and tried, but nobody has ever called me an un-American commie.
Guess that is the new slang in the US these days ?
Only the “abusive chat” report is working.
There are no real moderators in this game anymore, only IAs and those IAs only can use the team chat to seek for “abusive chat” like “noob”. The IA never aply a punishment for trolling (of any kind) or feeding, so if someone troll you in this game you can troll him back with no fear.
So how many boosters did you get before you realized it was a scam?
Managing the social dynamics is an essential aspect of all team games, including Hots. While I agree with you that the report system has flaws, at the end of the day you need to be a team player, and most of the time “smack” talking your teammates will lower your chances of winning a match.
This reminds me of a recent match I played with a friend. A random Butcher on our team was maybe the worst Butcher player I’ve ever seen. The random and very skilled Zera player kept calling him a “feeder” and other stuff that was just stating the obvious and not helping the Butcher play any better.
My friend got fed up with the Zeratul and said; “You’re right Zera, you’re a talented player, but you’re a terrible teammate”.
Dude, is really Blizzard fault.
Everything started since the 2019 changes in their politics, when they put “abusive chat” in the highest category of “bad actions”.
Really dude, i had a diamond account since the beta with only 1 punishment in 7 years, but after that change i got the 6-7 punishments to make the moderatos close my account" and they really didnt care the context of those abusive chats (blaming trolls in ranked who really feed like the ones who dont care the team composition and pick whatever they want, the ones who pick leroic to move it into the enemy fort and die forever while being afk or other players who only hates you and they ban on purpose your main heroes when you are in their own team even if your team had the firstpick).
It really didn’t care how many times you try to Appealing with real arguments, those moderators didnt care your situation or your frustration, even if that situations are their fault due to their lack of intelligence or professionalism for never ban the troll players.
PS: For the first 7 years i was a respectful player, but since 2019 THIS game make me a blammer player, so yeah, it’s “moderators” fault
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Irellevant to this topic. You can take that to the conspiracy forums aka Truth Social.
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lmao but here you are being the most emotional one here because your “31 accounts” have been rightfully silenced.
Your posts here are very likely only a glimpse into what you spew in game and a silence is the least of what you deserve.
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Blaming others doesn’t ever excuse the offending conduct. You “used” to be respectful, but by fixating your blame on anything else, you try to justify whatever action you want, thus admitting you are complicit in being a problematic player,
and now you show no sympathy for such conduct from yourself.
Meanwhile, there aren’t readily available testimonies of people talking about how smacktalk reformed them or got them to suddenly play better, or at least, not from online strangers.
When they get it, they return it, and it generally drags the rest of the team down for it as they alternate flame-blame instead of playing better. Actual “trolls” won’t care, and they probably want to rile people up because that is the actual meaning for trolling.
It’s easier for people to degrade themselves and blame others than stand for the level they pretend themselves to have.
That seems to be you so far. I didn’t just say “be better,” I pointed out an area of lack that could be improved for any one.
Outside of one word - that I didn’t define - they aren’t hard words, there’s just a lot of them since it takes length to convey information to people.
If nothing else, is it not just “smack talk?”
The bravdo looks like you want to “dish it out” but “can’t take it.”
When a person knows, they can accurately make predictions; when a person doesn’t know, their predictions are wrong, but if they don’t want to know, they then start blaming and assuming instead.
Where are you questions, your objective review? You’re assuming I put on airs, that I’m easily replacable in my job, and than I’m not magically manily enough to hold up to your ignorant stereotypes.
You don’t want to know, and you don’t hold up to the same standards you’re trying to profess. It’s not sustainable conduct; yea, people are “anti-fragile” and need resistance to grow, but they also need observational skills, experience, and intelligence to curb the self-delusion and propaganda they spout, but blame anyone else for perpetuating.
Bad smack talk is just fault-finding for people who think that if they name-call first, they’re magically immune to getting better at something. Then they take that and assume anyone muchh therefore be worse than they are, and then draw bad conclusions from incomplete information instead of looking to be better, stronger, smarter for it.
Shared conflict can bring people together, but if they’re fixated on flame-blaming, they’re more likey to be the cause of civil turnmoil, not magical saviors when the going gets rough.