Why has no one created a ToxicityIO addon?

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Players simply rate a particularly toxic, or even helpful player, and the rest of us have access to that database. It wouldn’t be that much of a burden, since we wouldn’t bother scoring most of the individuals.

I get that RaiderIO grabs the info from blizzard, whereas an addon would have to collect the rating in-game and push to their own database, but surely someone has the capacity to do this.

I’m actually a fan of RaiderIO, but it doesn’t stop toxic players from joining a good group.

Thoughts?

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Let’s quantitatively nail down what “toxic” is.

Let’s quantitatively nail down what “helpful” is.

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Life grip a DPS out of the knockback in Mists
“You’re trash bro, ruining my rotation. 0 stars.”

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it can be abused, and an addon like that is prolly against the ToS.

that’s my guess :woman_shrugging:

hehe sowwy :speak_no_evil: :cupid:

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Your Io score exists regardless you have the addon or not. An Addon to write stuff about other people would just work with the people who have the addon.

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Against TOS, actually. Falls under “naming and shaming”.

Edit: this has been tried before, it’s not hypothetical.

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Wouldn’t the ‘toxic’ people just start ranking whoever they feel as toxic, including anyone they deem ‘inferior’ or anything?

Also, how would ‘toxic’ be defined?

I mean, I really wish there were a way to know beforehand in a pug, but other than making a personal note with Character Notes (which is unshared), I don’t know of any un-gamable solution that would work.

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Because no one will use such an addon.

Frankly, vast majority of these super carebear, “too much toxicity in wow!!!” type of forum complainers, would have, without a question, accepted a free carry from a super toxic, but highly skilled player.

(i’d wager… some might have also paid gold for carry services from these so called “toxic” players)

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a system like that would just backfire, turn around and hurt the noobs in the end anyway, trust me.

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how an addon be terms of service

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meant to read against ToS

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^ This.

If the majority of players are toxic, what is stopping them from abusing and rating however they please?

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A downvote system would be considered shaming? I wouldn’t want to harm anyone, just surface their behavior for others.

I, too, believe there could be a campaign by players to abuse the system, but the cross server grouping has made it so difficult to avoid this behavior.

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What about 1 vote per week or something?

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So basically hope you don’t encourage more than one toxic person a week?

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Yeah because the addon you’re describing is nothing more than a tool to, Name and Shame someone.

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It’s about wether or not the data is subjective or objective and verifiable.

“Kaercha had not timed a +15 DOS” is objective information.

“Kaercha was mean to my group” is subjective information. The latter is not allowed. Not is seemingly objective information if not collected by an authority. “Kaercha left my group” isn’t verifiable, so it can’t be kept.

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lol, yeah, I get it’s not ideal…so make that vote count!

I don’t know, just seemed like if RaiderIO could segment the userbase on some metric, we could have another metric that conveyed a different view.

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I think what you’re hoping for is to alleviate levels of bad behavior in groups using the addon as a deterrence through rate shaming?

This just doesn’t work, unfortunately.

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ez. fix…blacklist—if u feel you need to keep track and not against tos…but most would just rather complain than do something about their perceived problem.