Since the launch of Overwatch 2 I have reported countless players for racist, homophobic and misogynistic abuse in the match chat but have not received one report of action taken, which I understand I should be getting. Please can this be investigated.
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I literally think itās just there for show these days.
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Same for me. The only time I received report feedback - bot account reports
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Reports for inappropriate communication donāt do anything anymore. They disabled it, basically.
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I think over in Sourcemod when we use to host TF2 servers, there was a script that was created by some community folks. It worked very well and it allowed for a person to run the script on their server and it would censor a person, warn them and if they did it too many times the server would go ahead and eject them from the match to conserve processing resources.
If I remember right, a person also could upload their own libraries. Eitherway it worked very well!
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Iāve noticed this too.
Either they just disabled the report windows entirely for whatever reason (that eludes me), or communication is now entirely handled by an AI filter, with no human mods to manually review the chat/voice.
I wish devs explained to us what is happening exactly.
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Not only am I not getting āaction taken, thanks for reportingā the game is also noticeably at its most toxic. They are doing nothing.
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If no one else is reporting them, little to no action will be taken.
I mentioned this in the past: I feel like players are so used to that kind of toxicity that they stopped paying attention to it, thus donāt report that behaviour.
It kind of became the norm that itās hard to take it seriously. Or that people think ānothing will happen to them, so why bother reportingā. Yāknow what Iām saying?
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Thank you for posting the only sensible answer in here. Donāt know why itās always quicker to assume some weird, unlikely and negative response rather than something sensible, when itās known that people do indeed get rightfully banned by the system.
A system that relies on people to report trash people will only work if others in that game and other matches continuously report the people as well. If youāre the only one reporting, of course itās not going to work - unless you yourself want to get instantly banned once a group of people in a match decide they want to report you for fun.
Like come on now.
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Iāve noticed a lot fewer āthanks for reportingā screens, too. Iād get them fairly regularly back in OW1 but now, not so much. I wouldnāt be surprised if they increased the threshold at OW2 launch or something.
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I still get these messages quite regularly.
And to clarify here:
This is pretty much the only report I ever make. I regularly report toxic players.
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I have reported several blatant cheaters in the past few months and havenāt gotten a single "Thank you for reportingā message. Not even one. And Iām talking about obvious cheaters using cheap programs, locking onto targets through walls.
Screw F2P.
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Itās because they wonāt do anything about those players. They are so afraid of losing them. So they cater to these racist and these bigots and these out of control edge lord kids because theyre the ones throwing money into this game. They actually did start banning people for acting like that 90% of the games player base would disappear in a week because thats how toxic this community is
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Iāve reported at least 20 people since the new season started because they were throwing, not a single one got punished 
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I havenāt reported in a few weeks, but overall in ow2 I get the thank you for reporting message on probably around half of my reports. Almost always a report for chat, not someone playing a hero and doing poorly.
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You are the problem.
For what? Reporting people for being abusive?
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Yes, for being an obnoxious human being.
I think people who report ācountlessā others are far worse human beings than the occassional racist, sexist or mysoginist person.
Personally i think people who report countless other should be banned from any social activity.
They make society worse, not better.
Your priorities are very backwards to me. Iād rather have people reporting people who are doing those things than give the misognists/racists/homophobes free range to spew their hate.
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Never seen bot accounts are you referring to bad players or what?
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