As the title suggests: Are Russian GameMasters biased for giving out player bans/suspensions?
I have extensive experience with the reporting system. More than 20+ perma banned accounts for testing purposes.
What I noticed from my tests is that the account suspension/ban email comes at around 6-7am in the morning (GMT+1), which would make it 9-10am in Moscow.
I’ve also noticed from tests that general calling out inters/afkers/generally bad players with negative comments usually takes about a week of daily play until account sanction. However, when specific about Russian players being bad then the account is usually sanctioned by the following morning (at 6am GMT+1, 9am Russian time).
When Russian players make a report, they probably type their comments in Russian. Therefore, clearly somebody is reading these comments will need to understand Russian, mostly likely a Russian. Therefore, if the person reading the comment sees something like “racist towards Russians” or something like this, does this GameMaster do an instant perma ban or suspension. E.g. if you type in game “Russian noob” they often reply with “racist” - I’m sure you’ve seen this.
I’ve been growing suspicious of this situation due to the fact that on other accounts I play normally on in Storm League at 2-5k Masters. It’s common for me after getting into a confrontation with Russian players that I get an account sanction.
My experience makes me feel like Russian players that report you get their friends (who weren’t even in the same game) to also make reports and these reports are read by a Russian Game Master who then makes an account sanction.
Unless Blizzard is running some sort of sweat shop operation, I can’t see how a Game Master employee would be working at 6am in the morning. They probably start work at 9am like most people or 8am earliest, which based on the automated emails I receive for account sanctions is always corresponding with the Russian time zone.
This fact combined with my tests for specific negative comments towards Russian players that are inting/afk lead me to believe there is some sort of bias from Game Masters who are Russian. E.g. during my tests I’m not flaming anyone with a Russian name. Only the ones that are seriously low elo and have 0-8 scores or 2 kills or in cases double digit deaths with 1 kill.
What are your thoughts? Have you also had account sanctions after getting into altercations with low elo Russian players or is it just me that is suspicious about this?