Over the last week or so, I’ve played maybe 3 hours of games in Lucioball and Quick Play. One game here or there. The salt just overflows that they say some incredibly dumb things. I reported them for abusive chat, it’s almost guaranteed to show up that confirmation message the very next day.
Don’t make a last second quip, don’t make a salty putdown, don’t rag on your teammates because they didn’t do the thing you wanted. Even stuff that’s barely surface-level passive aggression.
Just don’t do any of those things. Like, why bother? Why even risk being muted or silenced? Just say something nice, anything nice.
but at the same time this strange idea that a player is some sort of gate keeper of the report and bashes them out for anything/everything isn’t making the game better either.
reports should only be used for truly report worthy actions. The guy dropping racist stuff in chat, the huge ranting whatever who keeps going on and on. As the first whine is sort free.
smashing people with a stick for everything/anything report wise is no better than the those making minor team whines and so on. It’s just using a different weapon to do it.
Any form of hateful, discriminatory, obscene, or disruptive communications. Threatening or harassing another player on either team is also unacceptable, regardless of the words used.
Abusive chat is not:
Asking a player to switch to a different character, or giving suggestions to team members to improve their play
Petty, surface-level, or not, you’re falling right in line with this description. And if you’re the type of person that decide to say some salty comment at the end of the game instead of gg, or even the ggez macro, then you’re probably the type of person to repeatedly do this… when you literally do not have to say anything.
Just don’t type it. Don’t say it. That’s not hard.
you must be very sensitive, i only report for over the top abusive chat. like homophoic and racial slurs. if someone calls me dog shiet so be it, there probably right anyway
I’m not sensitive at all. I’ve done my fair share of banter, but the word choice and actions that I do are done in good fun. Not out of passive aggression. Most people seem to get that in chat.
My personal sensitivity doesn’t matter – if I reported someone for abusive chat and they said “wow you suck” without any other comments before leaving mid-match in Lucioball, how is my one singular report putting them over the silence threshold?
It’s not. It’s because they’re like this every match.
Anyone who gets silenced from the Abusive Chat option from surface-level remarks should understand that they’re permanently staining the game with a negative behavior that lingers in the game. Passive aggression in every single match isn’t doing you any favors, and sleights your team further putting them on tilt, on a game where it is so easy to tilt.
If you’re salty, just don’t say anything. It’s not hard.
We don’t know the extent of the automation of the report system because knowing that would enable people to abuse the report system even more than they already have.
It’s partially automated sure, but you can’t be 100% about a system that isn’t transparent.
If you get that message after reporting someone like that it’s because they weren’t just doing it in your game. It’s something they have been doing in multipile and multipile people reported then.
Okay, but like, I’m not even calling anyone toxic, I’m just saying that you (and literally everyone) don’t have to say anything salty. Objectively speaking, why risk getting silenced/muted? That forces you to switch to an alt account or wait out the term.
Why bother? That’s crappy for you, it was crappy for the people who dealt with your passive aggression, and overall is a complete waste of time.
Imagine if all passive aggressive comments just disappeared. No more salty post-game or mid-round messages + ragequits.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
Even if you are a literal pillar of salt, the saltiest person out there in matchmaking, you’d still agree that it’d be nice. It can cost you your sanity on some days, but if we’re in agreement that receiving salty comments kills morale, then just don’t say anything salty.
I dont really get why you would waste your time reporting people for salty comments. Like unless it’s something actually abusive like harassment, threats, discrimination – why waste the time? Does it really bother you so much that someone said “wow you suck”?
It’s not about a hierarchy of abusive chat, it’s still abusive chat. Full stop.
Shoplifting and arson are two vastly different crimes, but they’re both still crimes. They have punishments proportional to each crime, but both of them are still crimes.
It doesn’t bother me in particular, but it is still abusive chat.
There’s a fine line between an enemy player saying “get rekt” and a teammate saying “wow, you guys seriously suck” + ragequitting midmatch. One is plain banter and the other literally ruins the experience which is a reportable offense.
If I report them for leaving, then what is an additional couple of seconds reporting for abusive chat as well?
The confirmation message I get the next day basically confirms that they do this all the time. Salty message, passive aggression, leave. If leaving is reportable and it’s already bad enough that they left, and they left a salt pile on the way out the door, then why not report the salt too?
It really bothers me when people take it to match chat to rag on their teammates. I’ve seen it a lot and after they left that member of their team finally vented their frustration. It negatively affected that person and for what reason, their comments obviously didn’t help them play better? Thinking it’s okay to be terrible to people is not okay.
Well I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. I don’t think saying “wow, you guys seriously suck” and ragequitting is abusive chat nor worthy of a report (for any reason).
Would you talk to your parents this way, maybe a teacher, a friend? No because there’s repercussions. Your parents would discipline you, your teacher would send you to the principal, and your friend just wouldn’t want to be your friend.