The toxicity often comes from the players that are the worst on your team. The scoreboard lets you point to their stats to call them out for their unjustified toxicity.
It’s on by default to protect new players from toxicity and also make it so people with private profiles aren’t targets.
this honestly sounds like he spent too much time healing or your team was just constantly taking poke.
a perfect example of how most stats are meaningless at best and actively misleading at worst.
im not against the scoreboard, im also not for it.
its better than the medal system but the stats being shown are pretty pointless. death count is the best feature it brought but like, you know if someone is dying a lot already so it wasn’t really needed.
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People with hidden profiles are almost always the ones who are super toxic about picks and stats in my experience, it gives them a shield to hide behind while they lob volleys.
Cause it frequently requested
People wanted something else to complain about so now they can 
my experience is that some toxic players have open profiles and some dont, same as with nontoxic players
I have seen no correlation whatsoever between the availability of one’s profile and one’s toxicity
Plenty of non-toxic players have private profiles
OK I dont want this to come across the wrong way as I know some will interprete it as me being offensive. Why have players become so fragile I mean sometimes your team just meshes well and others for sure were because you couldnt get the ball rolling in your favor. Scoreboard is good as it can help show who is helping and let you know if someone needs to swap because they arent contributing enough at all. This isnt saying you as a player is always playing badly as we all have bad games from time to time. OW2 is a team based game and if we dont have a score board we wont know at all if a player is basically helping or not most of the time. Just remember its ok to be called out from time to time and learn when you need to counter what your fighing against. Just try to not get so tilted so it doesnt bother you as much
So you can fully explain to your teammates how bad they are and ruining the game by citing numbers (that may or may not be relevant).
yk what ive been wondering this TOO. I dont undeerstand why seeing ranks in competitive (like those of your teammates and being able to see yours on your portrait) were removed. They say “toxicity” but that isnt true. Scoreboard creates a lot more toxicity then being able to see rranks of your teammates ever did. Its just an excuse.
And it does no such thing. If anything, you get toxicity for having private profiles even from neutral parties. Then again, most people are relatively content with that, but if they used your stats, all of a sudden it’s a problem. I find that odd. Someone questions your integrity as a person? Whatever. Someone says you main a certain character? Depression.
It quite literally makes no sense. But I am happy if you are happy. It does not HAVE to make sense. It can just be.
This would be much worse if they weren’t private by default since it wouldn’t be the norm.
If all people said was that you main a character, people wouldn’t use private profiles and Blizzard wouldn’t have made them the default.
Absolutely true.
But seriously though, what is particularly hurtful about your stats. Something that you feel the need to hide? Your winrate is low, you are playing a hero you rarely play? Wow! I needed a public profile to notice that!
I do not get it.
Can’t tell that from the scoreboard. I’ve lost plenty of games where people are off deathmatching and ignoring the actual objective, or getting high damage stats just by shooting the enemy tank.
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In Heroes of the Storm you could hide the stats collection from 3rd party websites like Hotslogs. When this became the norm, people installed a method where it would snapshot the match and report the stats anyway. With Heroes of the Storm this was possible because you were locked into your character selection from the start of the game. However, I think if the community really wanted to do something like that, it could be done. Then the private profile would be pointless.
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Its not about stats. It’s about people demanding you only play certain heroes, reading way too far into what playing certain heroes say about someone, and noticing patterns about what people say to you when your profile is public versus private.
they did it because the people asked for one. and we have learned that overwatch is a game where a scoreboard basically tells you nothing useful that you couldnt also figure out from the context of the actual game.
These people do that regardless. I am Reinhardt only on my main. My public profile indicates I have not selected literally anyone else in competitive this season. Does that stop them from making demands? Of course not. A private profile wouldn’t stop it either.
People being people is not something you can solve. That’s why I made the comment I made. The arguments make no sense. I am not even trying to be offensive here. You want private profiles by default for an emotional reason devoid of logic. That’s fine, but it is honestly annoying to pretend otherwise.
The scoreboard was demanded by folks who wanted a source of data to use to assign blame for losses to others
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It will stop people from telling you to pick Winston every game if he’s meta and you played him in earlier seasons though.
I want private profiles by default because if they’re not then having a private profile will cause you to get flamed for it. It also helps new players who aren’t aware of them.
If you wanted me to explain why I wanted them by default you should’ve asked me about it rather than asking me about my stats and mocking the concept of private profiles.
What? I never did either of those things. I quite literally never asked about your stats or mocked your concept of private profiles. I did not even particularly want you to explain why you wanted them by default either.
I am just saying that the arguments for it are not particularly logical. I even lead it with “no offense intended” and ended my sentiment with “and that’s okay.”
Any reason for them is irrelevant because those consequences occur regardless. That’s the problem, people with private profiles are so defensive. And that’s why I totally feel the option should be available. Heck, I do not even necessarily believe public should be the default. It should just prompt you and ask your preference when starting a new account (or when they implemented this change). That’s the best case scenario.
But then again, that would not be good enough for you either because you realistically just want everyone to have private profiles to use them as artificial cover which is… Yeah. I guess I get it.