If accessing your service requiring people to accept your definition of racism, then yes your definition is correct while people are using your content/property.
Racism is actually against the law, but good logic friend.
Also, my definition is most definitely not correct, regardless of services being accessed by Jane or Todd. Something thatâs wrong by nature is always wrong, regardless of how you try to dress it.
Racism itself is not. Acts motivated by racism is.
Ok, let me use a relatable example that may help explain the situation people donât like dealing with.
Letâs say you join a competitive lobby, you get matched up with 5 other people, you all select your heroes, and the match starts. Someone on your team has selected Reinhardt, and your team now picks around synergizing with him.
But once the round starts and you blast out the front gate, Reinhardt is NOT shielding. Instead, he is Charging into the enemy, missing kills, trying to solo against 6 other people with little support, and is spending a lot of time dead.
You all give him the benefit of the doubt, and remind him to stick with you all and use his shield more often because Hanzo and Ashe are crapping all over your supports due to the lack of protection.
You lose that round.
Next round starts, the Zarya asks the Reinhardt, âHey, can you swap off Reinhardt? Iâll play him for you and you can play something you want to play as.â
They say no, and donât swap. Next round goes the same way.
You lose your competitive game because of one personâs actions, and because they had locked in a tank role that needed to be filled, but wasnât playing that role.
What do you do in that situation? What do you consider that to be, if gameplay sabotage is not what you consider it to be?
Iâm just curious because I honestly donât know what else that would be other than throwing. And this isnât a case of playing poorly, this is a case of someone not even willing to work with their team, or at least switch heroes around so that someone else can play as the barrier for that person.
Iâm not going to argue hypotheticals because the thread is about the rules, and the rules does not have conditional restraints.
It says not-switching is not gameplay sabotage. It does not say âsometimes not-switching is not gameplay sabotage.â
Ah, so youâre going to ignore the question then. Got it.
The point is, people report based around those hypotheticals.
And as Iâve said, theyâre submitting false reports and getting away with it.
But they believe theyâre not submitting false reports because they truly believe this person is throwing. Theyâre not doing it maliciously, theyâre doing it because the definition is vague and situational.
The definition is as clear as it can be. It literally says not-switching is not sabotage. The people submitting the false reports are seeing a giant red light at the intersection and just completely ignoring it.
I argue they are doing it maliciously, especially if they are aware the report system is automated and purposely submit false reports knowing it will lead to wrongful punishments.
But theyâre reporting this Reinhardt for throwing because it honestly looks like he is. How else can you tell the difference other than lobbing your corpse off a cliff repeatedly? Good throwers are subtle with it.
Not switching also can be classified as throwing.
Letâs say you go into a comp game, ELO is around 4.2k.
If you know you have Cloneman16 (one of the best Reinhardt mains in the world) and you, a Zenyatta and Brigitte main, instalock Reinhardt on Kingâs Row (which is one of Reinhardtâs best maps), with 30 minutes total of Reinhardt experience, are you still playing to win?
How are you playing competitively if youâre not playing your strengths and trying to curb your weaknesses?
No. You arenât. Youâre fully aware that you probably are nowhere as good as Cloneman16 is at spacing and proper aggression, lining firestrikes intelligently, or lining up animation cancels+abusing map geometry to get huge shatters.
That is sabotage. That is what most of us are referencing towards it. Itâs not that we donât want you to always be on Mercy, itâs just that playing Moira right now means that flankers are going to have a harder time killing you.
Itâs perfectly fine to do this stuff in QP, Arcade, customs, whatever.
But keep it out of competitive, where the goal is to win at all costs, and having a flexible hero pool drastically raises your chances.
If you cannot clearly establish someone is throwing, then you should not be reporting for sabotage.
No, it cannot when the report explicitly excludes it.
So what do you consider throwing or sabotage. Give me an example. Since you avoided that earlier.
if you play no-skill-rat against widow/pharah you are 100% throwing
If you are jumping off a bridge repeatedly, not-engaging the enemy such as AFKing in base, or placing teleporters at edges to lead your team to falling off. The same definitions Blizzard wrote in the report description.
Except it is.
Go read some history books and tell me how many laws had to be switched because they were definitely wrong.
I bet itâs more than one. Iâd put money on it.
Just because thereâs a rule against something doesnât make it just, correct, or even practical. You literally cannot come up with any type of rebuttal other than âWell the dev said so because reasons.â Thatâs basically a straw-man argument.
I could bring politics into the equation to easily get my point across, but thatâs a really bad idea lol
And until the laws change, the law still applies and youâre suppose to follow it.
You can argue for the law to be changed, but you donât get to ignore it just because you disagree.
What do you do in that situation? You chalk it up to getting matched with someone that doesnât know what theyâre doing, put them on your âavoid as teammateâ list, and you move on to the next match and save your reports for people who are clearly showing intent to sabotage and not just something that âcan be interpreted asâ or âis akin toâ sabotage.
For as much as this game triggers me, when I take a deep breath I know that Iâve benefitted from throwers and leavers and people who donât know what theyâre doing as much as theyâve screwed me. At least since finding a hero that works for me.
Whether or not Blizzard cares about any of this is another story.
You really canât do that with teleporters anymore because itâs really obvious where theyâre facing now.
AFK timer is like 15 seconds, so no one would even have time to report you before you got kicked, and good throwers arenât going to be super obvious with theyâre sabotage such as throwing themselves off a cliff.
These are a few examples, but not mutually exclusive ones. Give me your own example, not the three Blizzard provided.
Those are the only 3 Iâve ever reported for under gameplay sabotage.