Why Reports Suck Ass

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There is only one thing that annoys me more than Throwers or One Tricks. The Report system. So many people I have played with deserved Reports for things like Throwing, being Abusive to the team, refusing to switch to someone who can contribute to the team rather than the sub-optimal pick theyre currently running. I have had the message that someone I have reported has had action taken against them once. Once. For the 14th time on my main account, I have been banned for “Abusive Chat”. Every single game I try to stay positive, and every so often of course that will slip up. But how is it I can be banned for saying someone is feeding or someone is bad, but when people ACTIVELY THROW GAMES NOTHING GETS DONE ABOUT IT. If you want a Report system to work, maybe focus on getting priorities straight first. Until then, I guess I have to wait until next month to play on my main, and Gods forbid I call someone bad again, because apparently that is the worst crime to commit on Overwatch.

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I don’t think the creators really thought about the report system, or maybe they did and were like what the hell, at least it is something, something is better than nothing at all?

An automated system was obviously going to be abused, it gives great power to premades.

I to have reported a lot of people for game sabotage and often get the message that action has been taken pops up when I load the game but the definitions of game sabotage doesn’t cover optimal hero picks or the general selfishness of some players, shame really.

Talking about the issues in game is seen as worse than being the issue.
Could one of you snipers pick another tank?
You become the enemy! How dare you ask something of your team mates but at the same time it’s fine for them to widow with 30% accuracy but you speaking out ,well you’re evil :hear_no_evil::see_no_evil::speak_no_evil:

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Here is food for thought.

You’ve got one person who throws a game every 100 games and you’ve got someone who gets abusive every 10 games. Which one is the one getting the ban hammer ?

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I have seen 5 people throwing today. Mei’s blocking passages, sombra, genji taunting in front of objective while team trying to get the objective etc. I reported but I know that nothing will happen. I told them to stop throwing and told other people to report them. I know they reported me for telling not to throw and I will be silenced with their false reports. You can be silenced for insulting, saying “idot" "rtard” “us*less” “gg ez” etc. That is normal, you should be silenced for that. but even you tell a “scientific truth which can be proved when records are checked” you will be silenced for abusive chat too.
There have been lots of topics by different people about false reports but the same people gets into the topics defending the faulty automated system.
I guess they are hired by blizzard for hiding the truth. (They will get here and insult with their conspiracy theory arguments) You know they are the same people as always, you can check.

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