4-man group blamed me for loss, told everyone to report me

This is exactly why they need to keep LFG separate from solo que.

The 5 man stacks are going to dump all over the poor solo que player when they experience a loss.

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It’s the gang mentality. I see it a lot. It’s REALLY bad in World of Warcraft as well, if you ever played that.

Sucks but there’s not much you can do about it. =/

Well 4 reports isn’t going to do anything to you unless you are getting reported regularly. Just report them back for toxicity imo. It is really all you can do.

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well if you do your job as widow and get important picks and not just kills when your team got wiped ppl will not complain much. unless you are being countered and dying all the time and not being able to get those picks.

i dont see much hate about a widow main with positive winrate unless the team needs another support or tank… and you take dps when everyone else already picked their role.

This is precisely why I get nervous when playing with a 4- or 5-stack and I’m not on that stack.

Unfortunately it seems that with some of them, the only way to make them happy is to let them shot-call, and whatever you do, don’t insta-lock a hero at the start of the round. Not all large stacks are like this, but some sure are.

Contrary to popular belief, false reports do very little other than hurt your own ability to report.

The system is entirely automatic—reports trigger a scan of either the chat or the player’s game stats. For example, if you were reported for verbal abuse but never said anything negative in the game, that report will fall flat. If you play the game normally as intended and don’t afk or suicide, gameplay sabotage won’t suspend you either.

But you can report those players for verbal abuse. The way the harassment report system works is that it creates a “dictionary” of bad words, words that are commonly reported and “report” is ironically near the top of that list because players so often flame others by saying “report (name)” in chat.

It’s a threat and an insult to publicly announce you’re going to report someone. You’re basically calling for people to punish a person, but you’re not the one who decides punishments. If you’re gonna report someone, just do it.

And a lot of the “false bans” just turns to be false stories. A lot of people who tell these stories omit some of their behavior. If you think you’ve been wrongly suspended, you can appeal the ban here:

But the game masters are going to be looking over some of the chat and stats that triggered the report and if there was cause for action, the suspension won’t be lifted.

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if these games occur to you often, you should check what makes those players blame you, and fix this. if you do nothing wrong, just try to point out on chat when you do a big play, so people will notice that your doing stuff… im sorry for you if your a victim of those things

I did say he insta reported me as soon as he saw my pick.

I have a 59% winrate in all seasons of comp over 60 hours or so as widow.

I’ve decided to no longer worry about false reports, especially after incidents like XQC reporting someone for playing Sym.

The reports go somewhere, and none of us really have any control over it. Just have faith that Blizzard will sort through the nonsense.

Except we already know they don’t ^^

System is automated. I got reported and banned for being symmetra in spawn before a round started I switched to healer before the doors opend and we won I had 40% of team dmg taken healed. I waited for team to pick and just went symm while waiting. One guy told entire team to report me and they all did. I get the email that my account was banned before game was over.

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Yes, the suspension system is automatic. When you are reported, the game scans your chat or stats to see if they match the identity of the report. For example, if you were reported for gameplay sabotage, having an unusually high death count or low participation rate in the game can count as a “flag.”

You need a certain amount of flagged games in order for a suspension to trigger, and the games all have to happen within a certain time period to allow for some forgiveness.

You didn’t get banned just for playing Symmetra one game. I’d recommend you appeal the ban with the link I provided if you believe you’ve been unjustly suspended and a game master can review your ticket.

nothing you can do and then the eventual suspension will not be appealable because of how great the system is.

I did not play symmetra I played moria the entire game did not play symm at all. I was symm in spawn before round started waiting for team to pick before doors opened. I had 40% of teams dmg taken healed got potg and got upvoted after the same people reported me and got my account banned. I submitted a ticket they just sent an automated response and closed it. We also had a doomfist one trick that did not get reported and no one else was filling but I got banned because they bandwagon report from tilt. I had another account that got a silence when the account was already silenced for hitting x when I needed heals. Even though the healer said I am not gunna heal you if you ask for heals. Idk what else I can do but hit x and my account is already silenced.

Sounds like a normal day in Overwatch

The message is part of a formula, but it’s not an automated response. Your suspension has been reviewed, which means the result of your review was not positive.

Again, you do not get suspended for the actions of one game. The reports that triggered the suspension might not have been the culprit.

For example, for your account to get silenced there has to have been chat messaged that were toxic which the system picked up on. These can be anything from calling your allies “noobs” to saying “ez” when you win a game. If the game master can see these lines in your chat history, your suspension may not get lifted.

At this point, you have to wait out your suspension and then try to reform afterwards.

Stop playing Overwatch. The community is so cancerous and toxic, playing comp (or QP for that matter) is unbearable.

As a solo Q’er I hate stacks. Though I hope Blizz is smart and notes if a report is coming from the same premade.

Tip: Large queues will always try and control what they want because they want to seem like they have power over you/smaller queues
You can’t really do anything either, especially if they’re all friends who defend each other no matter what
The only thing you really can do is to make a large queue of your own

You’re giving the support team too much credit, all it takes is one visit to their page on trustpilot and you’ll be met with a 1.5 stars rating.
Plus, they’re often times too lazy to do their job and send an automated response or worse even close the case prematurely.
Plus ez is not toxic and if someone from the support team sees it as so then they’re incredibly sensitive and shouldn’t be working the position while having a biased opinion.
Retard = offensive
ez = not offensive
Also I’ve been suspended for saying “I don’t listen to Brigitte players” and " I have daddy issues" while the people who reported me kept telling me to go fck myself and get cancer, they didn’t get suspended, I did and when I contested they sent me an automated message after showing me that I was suspended for a sht reason and told me to basically f*ck off.
Blizzard and their support only care about the cash don’t forget that, it’s a company not a charity.