Its should be but else how is gonna blizz pay the lawsuit expences?
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Skill is not bannable
Oh no, this person is more skilled than me, report
With that logic, you can report the enemy team every time you lose
I dont know what game you’re playing,but theres a HUGE difference between a GM and a Diamond…Huge
It isn’t because smurfing is a revenue stream.
The definition of surfing is throwing to 1 or more ranks below yours, and try to stomp those players.
The throwing is bannable.
However, making is Alternative Account, is not.
If they do they’re throwing
Surely banning them would give them more money?
I think you’ll find that’s the people 300 SR higher thinking they’re hot stuff not GM’s most of the time
Throwing is, what real smurf have to do to keep beating lower skilled players with style.
Beating them alone is not bannable
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Smurf = someone who plays in a lower elo than his actual skill level
Which is against the CoC, getting an unfair advantage
So yes smurfing is bannable but will not happen because Blizzard gives flying flamingo
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Deranking part is bannable.
Well as you left out in literally my next sentence of that post, smurfing is difficult to prove.
Player data of course will show wild fluctuations in performance (indicator of smurfing) but as I said, maybe the player is drunk, or on a controller, etc.
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If they just wanted money they don’t have to prove it though
Unless they want a class action lawsuit for unfairly banning accounts they do have to prove it.
Regardless of what most people think, accounts being silenced/banned for abusive chat or cheating (hacks) are indeed guilty of such things as they leave behind proof:
- abusive chat: accs generally type toxic stuff in chat and/or have their voice recorded being toxic
- cheating: bots/hacks can move the player/aim in ways humans are unable to, Blizz can see this input data on the cheaters account as proof.
…but smurfing? As I keep repeatedly saying, Blizz have no way of knowing if the player was simply drunk when underperforming or using a controller for example.
Yes, but actually no
Your performance looks like an bell curve and they should look very similar to similar performance at your rank at your hero
Unusual deviations are easy to spot, because you have the data and know exactly what normal player behavior looks like
Of course they are and I’ve long held the opinion that Blizz can easily see players who are smurfing due to their data fluctuations.
…but as I said the data is just that, data without context:
They can see it in the data but unless they have video of the person playing (i.e. a streamer) they cannot prove the player is smurfing, or drunk, or using a controller, etc.
This is why smurfing accounts aren’t banned.
No it’s not bannable.
Jeff mentioned this many years ago and is still law today.
*Respectful MEKA bow emote for Jeff *
Nope, because money.
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Actually you can calculate how certain you are that a performance is deviating from the expected performance
But it depends on how the person smurf
I saw on IDDQD stream a year ago someone who dropped from t500 to bronze with 3%WR Lucio and climbed back up, open profile and admitted in voice
He must have gathered tons of reports but didn’t get banned, there is no system in place detecting a rapid change in behavior
Without video proof of the player doing it, all stats still have a margin for error which is at the core of my argument. You can repackage it anyway you want but Blizz will not ban someone for something they can’t 100% prove.
shrugs That’s not showing my point is wrong, just that it wasn’t actioned by Blizz despite them having proof which may or may not have been sent in to Blizz.
Another point in favor for the ‘smurfing won’t get you banned argument.’ 