For getting mad at a troll who died 23 times in a 20 minute game. He afk inted fb at red spawn. I didnt swear at him, I mocked his trolling.
First game of chat restriction I am called retard in game and, like I did to get my restriction, am called a troll.
Any bets as to what will happen to the player I reported?
nothing
Who cares, you need to worry about you. Didn't your mama teach you to stay out of other people's business?
So what you probably fail to recognize here is that consistent toxic behavior results in much more flags.
Typically speaking, 1 instance in 50 games is not going to be enough ever reach any sort of consequence. 1 in 10 games however, has 5 times the likelihood. What probably happened is you were toxic enough in a majority of your games that you were flagged to begin with, meaning each report thereafter had an ever-increasing chance that you would be "caught" in a bad situation. The difference is that the other player that you reported i'd imagine doesn't get reported all that often. Even if that's not the case, it doesn't excuse your behavior, which you have 100% control over.
Marginalizing your own actions through someone elses errors is childish and the literal equivalent of "Officer, I know I was speeding, but there were cars going faster than I was" or "well he got away with it, I should too". Just like in society, not every criminal is punished, some get away and skeet the system. NO system is perfect, and its ludicrous to have even a remote expectation of that. I don't know your age, but try to be "the bigger guy" or more mature in situations like this, as acting like a child and throwing a temper tantrum instead of reflecting on your own actions will get you absolutely nowhere in neither this game or life. Philosophical bullshit aside, man up, take responsibility for YOUR shit. If other people don't, that's their problem, not yours.
Not the answer you wanted, but its both reality and the solution. Also for future reference, "hate speech" is usually considered especially heinous- whether you consider it to be or not is irrelevant. I would point out that you had simply chose your words extremely poorly, and if you're going to flame no matter what in a scenario like this, i'd recommend changing your vocabulary, using mute, or just not typing. Never really solves anything anyways, right? Does it make you feel better? Does it make the other person feel better?
If they troll a lot, they're good at not getting detected and you will be punished only for how you react.
The corrected version would be "Sorry Officer, I was being harassed by another driver and was caught honking at him. Sorry for the distraction". My ban was for calling out bad behavior in game regarding someone who was admittedly throwing. I was civil in chat, but the undertone of frustration was certainly there. It's a lot like what I imagine you think you are pulling off here in this thread. You saw behavior you didn't like and spoke up. Enjoy your board restriction I guess?
You never said sorry, so that analogy isn't even remotely close to relatable in this scenario. The analogy that was pulled from your reaction to the whole event, and I drew a parallel between the two. I'm sorry that I have to talk explain this so simply, I hope you don't take it as condescending as its not, but you aren't even remotely trying to understand anything outside of your own thought process. I'm also sorry that you take everything as a personal attack, but you must absolutely be insane if you don't think you have any defects, that you're an absolute perfect version of a human being. I'm not that egotistical, I'm not always right, but I'm also open-minded enough to be OK with being wrong. Don't take critique so personal, whats being challenged isn't you as a human being but rather your actions. Objectively thinking about a situation will get you so much further.
On topic, about the analogy again...
Societally/"Real life" speaking: Can we agree that calling someone a retard (a stranger, at that, so not a close friend by any stretch) is not OK? If the answer isn't no, what are the parameters where it becomes acceptable, to you?
