Just to inform the community about this “bannable” offense. A friend of mine tested this who is ranked HIGH with laser aim. He activated a new account, joined in the game, kept cosmetics to default, did the mandatory QP games, threw all of the placements, still placed SILVER (how?), then threw and deranked down into Bronze. From there, as a solo player, he continually obliterated Bronze and Silver ranks - which takes MANY wins to rank up so he was there for MANY matches ruining everyone’s games - and then deranked fairly quickly back to low bronze and repeated this for several hours durign the week and more on weekends for OVER TWO MONTHS. He said it was the most fun he’s had playing which kinda pissed me off, but hey, this was in the name of science.
He screenshots some of the best screaming and complaining about him being a smurf which is most every match, yet he has NEVER received a warning or ban. So, this experiment proves that we are all wasting our time reporting this because Blizzard CLEARLY isn’t concerned with this activity and encourages as long as the account is getting hours played.