I’ve started to notice that when I report people for text chat, I get post report reports.
Game play sabatauge for feeding, cheating (MNK console), none of that gets any results.
Why even have the other options for? Their just there for show.
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Yea, and the text reporting is the one horribly abused. Players are getting banned or suspended for saying “group up” or “wait for team”.
Meanwhile vulgar playernames still exist, players throw, feed and refuse to heal anyone outside their group and that’s OK.
Group2Win is the name of this game. If you are in a 5 stack, you don’t have random players stinking up your matches.
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inb4 the enemy team mass reports you
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That’s because it is easy to spot abuse in text chat using AI or what ever they use to vet plus you report the text that was wrong, i don’t know the verification process for voice or gameplay without looking at whole 10-15min game
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That is what most people report for so it is the most likely to hit the automatic threshold. I am pretty sure for cheating they only do permanent bans so they would actually check if it hit the automatic threshold. It would be pretty much impossible to get banned for cheating if your cheat software didn’t trigger their automatic detection.
The text chat is what can be auto-analyzed easily by their fancy machine learning tech. No wonder it carves through reports.
They don’t use any language models to analyze reports. I know this because you can get auto banned from blank reports for completely irrelevant chat text. In the ban email they will cite the reason you are being banned and it can be blank or irrelevant.
It “might” be a good idea to at least attempt that, but it is no substitute to actually verifying a rule has been broken.
It’s hard to tell if it gets results or not.
Just keep reporting waht’s reportable and don’t mind you get the “thank you” message or not. I think on Overwatch you have to get a certain amount of strikes to get muted unlike Valorant.
I just played one game on Valorant after months off of it and I haven’t read any patch notes and some guy in vocal chat trapped me xD…
They noticed I was only typing and not using voice and they asked me If I were “gay” but with a deragotory word starting with “f”… and me, like an idiot, not being sure if I heard it right, typed “a [deragotory word here] oO ?”…
And I instantly got an automatic 3-hour chat mute 
! The guy got me so good that they apologized on voice chat right after. I never get muted in any game but this time I got owned.
The funniest part is that the entire team was using foul language in English and German and nothing happened to them while I wasn’t able to type anything 
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I guess Valorant doesn’t have the recording voice chat thingy Overwatch does or maybe it takes time for their system to analyze the audio.
Anyways, I’m not even mad as I see it as an opportunity to get updated about new penalty systems in games I haven’t played for a while.
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Here’s the blog post that mentions them expanding the machine learning stuff, with a link to another post about it too:
Obviously I don’t know details about how exactly it’s being used or if it has anything to do with “language models”.
That was an easy read. I love how there’s no numbers in it. 
This doesn’t pull back the curtain on what their DM is doing with reports. It does say they’re working to make the DM respond faster to them though.
That is troubling. And makes me think this is the reason i see an uptick in false punishment threads.
Hard to say though. Those threads tend to get deleted
Ehh doesnt happen. I play almost exclusively in a stack and i nor my stack ever get actioned. Im sure salty people report us but nothing happens and we say GG every game.
I’ve seen quite a few people claim they’ve had their chats disabled yet still get silenced. Even saw one person get suspended mid-silence for abusive chat.
Now are these accounts true? No way for us to verify, unless you want to harass those people and then have them lash out and use that as proof. However if you do believe them, and also see how streamers have been banned on stream for “hacking”, then there’s definitely precedent for false bans happening. And if anything has come out of this, is that Blizzard has no way or intention of helping those claiming to be falsely actioned on.
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Wow in Valorant you only get 3 hour chat ban for literally saying a slur? In OW2 you can silenced for 14 days for saying less.
I’m not sure about that. I never got tricked into writing a slur or derogative term on Overwatch so I can’t compare. But in my recollection, Overwatch only censors the word (and you get silenced only if players reported you for using it).
I didn’t pay attention to me writing that word I heard from a guy in voice chat in Valorant 'cause I knew the game used to be pretty forgiving in the past.
I remember people calling each other really harsh words as CS-go like games like Valorant usually get the attention of very rude gamers (often homophobic) so I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it’s now forbidden to use any, since there’s now an automatic chat ban (when using those key slurs).
The only thing that could be criticized about that automatic strike system (that detect slurs) is that it’s always in English by default. There are many words in other languages that have a completely different meaning and I think it’s the same on Twitch and Overwatch (OW only censors the word I think)…
For instance, I can’t type “I’m late” in French in many online games because “late” in French is the same word as an insulting word in English (I’ll let you check on Google translate). Now that Valorant automatically silence you for 3 hours, I have to be careful when typing in French (or any other languages I speak) with other teammates :p…