Like if your teammates start flaming 10 seconds into the match and they say they are reporting you for throwing? Do you just keep playing like normal? Or just give up at that point?
Disable chat and dont join voice. Ignore them. Believe it or not, but if people would just shut up and ignore the toxic people, they would not get a punishment.
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I ignore it. what else I can do?
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You can really only do anything if youâre actually actioned. Then, you can submit an appeal stating your confusion. If the GMs donât give you an actual answer, you can always go bug them on twitter- where they seem to be more thorough for some stupid reason. Though, you can report them for being toxic and false reporting in turn.
Itâs very dumb and counterintuitive of communication and trying to make callouts that the only way to avoid being punished is to just mute the chat. This game has gotten so toxic just by making AI automate suspensions. 
Itâs almost like the only way to make them pay attention to the problem is to report every soul you come into contact with and overwhelm them so much that theyâre forced to hire actual people instead of letting salty people moderate themselves. Itâs- so ridiculous. Whoever thought that letting the players moderate themselves was a good idea needs several newspapers to the head.
Very disappointing that they just in general have come to discourage talking. Use pings to communicate until the toddlers are removed from the game. Until, then, just turn chat off. e_e
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I never join voice or team chat or lobby chat. Itâs never good stuff. Or⌠rarely good stuff.
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If youâre unwilling to do the above, you are tacitly endorsing and allowing the abuse. This may be counterintuitive, but imagine it as a different scenario.
Imagine you like playing chess and itâs traditional to put your left hand on a wooden block as you play with your right. You donât have to put your hand on the block, but the community agrees that itâs the proper way to play at high levels.
Letâs say every time you put your hand on the block, someone walks up out of the crowd and stabs it with a knife. Straight through the back of your palm, and into the block. You come back, game after game, look out at the crowd and consider willingly placing your hand, now mangled from countless attacks, on the block.
Why are you considering it? Put your hand in your pocket!
That sounds an awful lot like victim shaming. Why donât we make it against the rules to stab people instead?
You laugh. Not in the mic though. Just laugh because you canât do anything else other than maybe cry.
Oh, and then maybe praise the lords over at Blizzard HQ for adding this stupid report system into the game. Might get a 1-coin-off coupon or something if theyâre feeling generous.
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Unfortunately, people who have stood up to actual jerks have gotten suspensions. Someone got suspended for saying âsucksâ. You can get suspended for one-tricking, despite that being something they seem to be not minding lately. You can be suspended for playing terribly, despite during Overwatch 1 that WAS NOT a reportable offense.
If someone hates what youâre doing, you can get reported for literally anything because the âCoCâ have become subjective. People on the forums even assume that we all did something to deserve this because âBlizzard canât be wrongâ. (Yes. Yes, they can.)
Itâs literally best to not even say anything ever on this game. -_-
I get banned for two weeks for playing ball. Had happened several times already. One of the times I got the ban overturned. The other times, support wonât even respond to the ticket besides a canned auto-response and closing of the ticket. Itâs a terrible system right now that honestly blizzard should be ashamed of.
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I donât engage. I continue playing the game but I donât interact with them.
I donât need to defend myself, and itâs usually just bait to get you to say something they can actually report you for.
Easy trap to see, easy trap to avoid.
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I absolutely do not give up, especially since most of the time itâs not the whole team. Most of the time itâs just one or two jerks. Throwing the game to spite the jerk(s) is going to ruin the game for the innocent teammates. Better to try my best, add a jerk to the avoid list, and then move on to the next game.
Depends. If they reported me already thereâs really no harm in making their assumptions come true 
if itâs QP I just leave if they didnât report me yet and in comp, well, bite your teeth.
All this assuming itâs âmy teammatesâ and not âone teammateâ. Usually itâs just one guy being weird and then my team starts making fun of them 
Assuming what Blizzard says is true, only one report counts. Might as well just enjoy yourself and throw. /S