Last week I was in a team with 2 people who accused me of being toxic.
I apologized. The statements were related to a tank when I asked (literal words) “why is the Rein yeeting into the team solo 1v6 over and over again leaving us 5v6?”
And I asked again, “Can you please stop charging in so we can work as a team?”.
Those 2 people then spammed me for 30 minutes with group invites until I blocked them whiteout saying a word.
Since then, even when it in coms each day I logged in I had gotten 2 messages about being reported for abusive chat.
I haven’t used coms, and only chat call outs. I’ve mostly been playing at night where I can’t use VC for the past couple of days.
Yet again today I received another report for abusive chat. I’ve never been reported before and don’t understand how it seems the same people can be reporting me over and over again, especially when I’m not even using VC or doing anything in chat other than call outs and perhaps some light joking (nothing derogatory).
Try to avoid typing in the chat at all costs. The system will hold your chats, no matter how harmless they are, against you. At most, try to remain in voice chat, but remain cordial and don’t engage with toxic teammates; simply do whatever your teammates say to avoid being a scapegoat.
The report system is stupid, and I mean really stupid. Anyone can report anybody for anything. Because of this, support tickets are mostly unreliable because the system can mark anything as “toxic behaviour”. Hell, even the gamemasters are totally jaded. Didn’t type anything in chat? They’ll just assume you said the f-word.
So… just try to act like a good boy even if everyone else is being a ----.
It’s crazy all I’ve used chat for is typing call outs. And still reports coming in. I mean if they actually reviewed reports they would see the call outs.
Once you identify a stack in-game, it’s best to not speak to them at all, they are usually toxic.
If you can’t help yourself, bind a key to turn off match chat (mine is caps).
You may not realize but the issue with this statement is it’s passive-aggressive. You’re singling out a player and suggesting they know less than you about the game.
It’s similar to when people say “can we not have a (hero name)” instead of “an Ana might help here” it’s so condescending and toxic.
Again, you’re singling out a player and suggesting they know less about the game than you.
A better approach would be “hey Rein, let’s try pushing left/right/top”.
To recap, the language you’re using is just as toxic as the kid cursing out a player in chat, just more refined. Some friendly feedback
I’ve Donne Irving different than Inhave for the past several years of playing.
The reports began when those 2 people were telling others to report me. Then they spammed me. Then I started getting reports of abusive chat every day for the past week. Even on days I haven’t been in chat.
Proof you’re receiving ‘2 reports a day’? To my knowledge we cannot access our report history…
As I mentioned earlier, you really need to rethink the way you speak in-game as it’s very passive aggressive from the examples you gave.
To help your reports go down, turn off voice/text chat and just play support for a few games/days (least likely to be randomly reported for no reason).
Each day you don’t receive reports, your warning status will go down.
Someone can correct me, but I’m pretty sure once you’ve played a few matches and you’re no longer on the recent players list in the social menu, I dont think there’s a way to report you anymore. You can’t just arbitrarily enter a battle tag (i.e. name#12345) manually. You can only do so via the UI.
So unless both of those players purposely stopped playing to keep you on their recent player list solely for the purpose of reporting you nonstop, I really doubt the warnings you’re receiving are solely from them. This is of course also assuming that you can report the same person multiple times. I feel like it would be pretty obvious from the developers perspective that they would need to filter out multiple reports by the same players specifically to account for something like this.
Most actions are likely not instantaneously processed by the report system, so you likely wont see a warning or any action taken until after the next time you sign in, so there’s a good chance other people are reporting you.
The system is fully automated and I imagine it’s entirely possible to abuse it, but it seems rather unlikely unless you’re particularly doing something in game that people constantly dont like and they choose abusive chat as a quick and easy way to report you and have action taken.
That’s how OP is staying on their lists…not that I believe it works for multiple reports anyway…
Yeah if you look at the examples the OP gave they’re one of these ‘passive-aggressive’ types in chat that while aren’t directly abusing people, are definitely phrasing things in a less than polite way…
The system is automated. If a couple of people spam reports over time it counts as from multiple sources.
Also note: exactly 7 days after the initial encounter with those two irate people, motivations of being reported for abusive chat ceased.
Now I am silenced. Which is something that has never happens to me before. The majority of my vc is used for making call outs or if people are talkative / joking I may join in a little. But most of my play time is when my kids are asleep and therefore I’m very quiet in VC keeping my tone down and call outs to a minimum.
I don’t even take it personally when someone rails at me. The other day someone in match chat kept calling me out saying I suck.
My reply, “yeah pretty much, sorry”. And “I am trying” when being accused of throwing. To be fair I was getting wrecked in that match and couldn’t seem to pull it together.
Heck, I usually reserve one of my endorsements for one of the people in the other team just to acknowledge their good game play.
I usually also play with a small group. Mostly students I work with. The end of matches I also use vc or team chat to complement other players.
Now, as pointed out I may be passive aggressive on some responses. I’ve admitted that is possible and totally willing to be more careful about my speech and approach.
