Why is it that you can still get someone banned or removed from the game through mass spamming reports?
It would make sense if everyone was reporting a hacker in a lobby, but it doesn’t work that way. Hackers keep playing for weeks before they randomly get banned after reaching the required number of reports. Why isn’t there an effective anti-cheat system to identify these players, and why doesn’t Blizzard verify if these bans are justified? You can get mass reported and banned for hacking without warning or a proper check. When you send a ticket, they just auto-respond with “Read the Code of Conduct,” never explain why you got banned, and ignore you.
At least for toxicity, you might get a text mute for a while. For other violations, you get time off or a full ban without ever knowing if it was due to reports or something else. Meanwhile, hardcore aim botters and spin botters run rampant in ranked and streamer games for weeks, but Blizzard doesn’t do anything about them. Instead, they randomly ban players from the community with a shotgun approach.
“The effectiveness of a report is based on each match in which the disruptive player is reported. This means the report’s impact is the same whether just one or up to nine other players make a report. Players are not likely to be actioned if a group of friends collectively report them unless the reported player is being disruptive across multiple matches and getting reported by different players. Asking other players in chat channels to report a specific player doesn’t help and can make a match experience worse for everyone.”
So. No you can’t mass report someone out of a game, and yes, it is based on the number of matches, not number of reports.
Genuinely have zero I’d how people don’t know this.
Literally designed to protect people from the “abuse” people think gets them actioned. Making it ultra unlikely, bordering on impossible, anyone gets actioned from people “abusing” the reports.
You’d have to match with them repeatedly, and get different people to report them each time, then change your stack because 5 isn’t enough and hope you keep matching with them… now who is going to care enough to do that.
Wrong. It is based on the number of reports, and this have been proven time and time and time again, even on youtube where streamers experimented with it.
There is no human interaction going on whatsoever when it comes to the in-game report system. It’s all managed by an ‘AI’ and it is triggered based on the amount of reports received.
What Blizzard is doing in that blog post is gaslighting.
You don’t know seem to know the difference between facts, fiction and gaslighting, though. Guess that’s what happens when you use ChatGPT too much, eh?