What counts as disruptive chat?

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When using the report player for abusive chat one of the qualifiers is disruptive communications.

People that scream/yell, play loud music/sound bites, eat/chew loudly, burp, and vape/smoke into an open mic.

Most people will stop if you ask them nicely or call them out on it. GIFT is a thing though, and some people like to spread misery. I will report players for doing those things if it is excessive, and even if it’s not disruptive a lot of those would count as obscene.

I am just curious how other players feel.

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I mean you can always mute them if they are a problem for you

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I highly recommend you mute anyone that you feel has an open mic, but isn’t using it as it should be used. Example(Callouts)

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You report people for vaping? The hell

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Cmon karen. The manager is busy enough without you bothering him all the time.

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?

What is that? Not seen the term before.

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GIFT is a the name TV trope’s gives to Online disinhibition effect.
The anonymity of internet communication removes the restraint people would fell communicating in real life.

This can be good, like when venting pent up feelings to a chat room full of strangers, or it can be bad like cyber-bulling.

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I just mute 'em.

Often get 1 idiot who spends half the match getting so worked up about it they’re more disruptive that the original problem so mute them too.

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To me, disruptive chat is cursing against teammates, overall toxic behavior, and blaring music over mic

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OMFG, I thought there was a mute button, but instead the report buttons is far easier to use I suppose, common sense is out the window.

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I wonder, are you the type of person that goes up to people in real life and says something, or is it just on games. I often wonder, people always vent on here about other people.
I suppose its easier on the net then in real life as you can stay behind the scenes and no one knows you reported them for stupid reasons even though you are given the tools to mute and not interact with them.

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Literally anything that offends the person who is doing the reporting.

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I usually just mute unless it’s racially charged, homophobic, or abusive towards teammates.

Otherwise I just make a comment like “Just joined and had to instant mute, good start” because I know they wont stop but why not be passive aggressive

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I tell them once. If they do nothing about it, I just report and mute.

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Because it starts off the toxic atmosphere and often snowballs from there. I wouldn’t report the initial offender but if it went toxic I’d report you.

No need to say anything. Ask 'em politely to turn off open mic, if they don’t silently mute. Simple.

Dunno why people have to make things so toxic in games .

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Because some people feel the need to make an example to “”“deter”“” such behavior. It’s worse when it happens IRL. Two examples I have are both from anime cons go figure. First prize goes to a good acquaintance of mine who decided to call out one of those creeps who ask to take a picture with a cosplayer and then wraps his hand around her waist. So they get into the old back and forth. “Is she your girlfriend?” “W-well no, but it’s not cool bro.” “Wait right there, let me bring over 7 of my friends and kick your a**.” I’ll always remember it because along comes the original guy and 7 little, Filipino dwarfs talking mess and surrounding my guy as I slowly back away.

Second prize goes to just this Fanime 2019 where I’m at photography lane scouting out potential shoots and judging other guys’ gear when suddenly some random guy next to me starts asking me whether he should call out some other random guy taking pictures of people passing by. So I’m like “Oh boy, guess I’ve got to talk this guy down from the roof now” and say to him better to not start a scene even if what he’s doing is kind of creepy. Rando number 1 won’t come off it though and goes into a soliloquy about isn’t it better to publicly shame him so that he’ll learn his lesson and stop his deviant behavior? No, that’s how you create school shooters, but I didn’t say that and instead directed him to the nearest convention help desk and have them deal with the headcases.

We live in dark times.

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Has yet to happen to me yet. Usually nothing is said, the person will turn off the music, stop screaming, or I’ll just keep it muted / report if there is actual toxic behaviour happening.

Plus, stating I muted someone isn’t classified as toxic, is not being toxic, and unless I start actually having toxic behaviour (Death threats, name calling, racist comments, homophobia, etc) your report is a false report.

Is stating: “Had to instant mute, good start”

Game sabotage? I wasn’t using in game mechanics to throw my teammate off a cliff, nor was I feeding, nor was I locking them in spawn.

Maybe abusive chat? It wasn’t hateful, discriminatory, obscene, etc. If anything, it’s informing my teammates that I have muted one of our players, thus if they stop screaming into the mic, playing loud disruptive music, etc I can be informed that “Hey, they stopped that and are actually being helpful now, feel free to unmute”

Was it spam? Well, it wasn’t stated multiple times, wasn’t consistent, wasn’t flooding the chats…

So if anything, you’d be false reporting because of stating I muted a player who could be doing any of the following: Playing loud disruptive music, yelling / screaming into the mic, “Disrupting the use of normal communication channels” (Which Is actually against the rules and pulled right from the OW ingame report system), etc

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My dear sir, it appears that you consistently fail to provide adequate heals for your teammates. Please proceed to XXxXx yourself

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Eh… Creating a deterrent is a good thing but it only works IRL. In my opinion, toxic behavior is more or less objectively unacceptable whereas taking pictures is whatever.

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Did she have a problem with it, did she ask for help, or did you assume it was a problem.