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Punished for old games due to abuse of the report function

aGGro M0nger·8/2/2016, 12:01:46 PM·1 votes·495 views

TL;dr: I was mildly toxic in a few games last week. I took a week break to cool down. I was extra positive tonight, but my raging teammates decided they didn't like my poor gameplay and chose to abuse the report function. My chat logs show only the previous weeks games.

I was mildly toxic last week. I had a few games of aggressive chat and mild negativity, but it wasn't enough to be punished because I didn't receive enough reports. I took a break, cooled down, and came back tonight. I had a few rough games in which my gameplay was terrible, but my attitude and chat was positive and friendly. Due to my terrible gameplay, my teammates reported me and I received a chat restriction. I was confused as to why I would be chat restricted considering I hadn't said anything even remotely negative, even while my allies were flaming me and going AFK, so I relogged and read my chat log. All 3 games in the log were from the previous week where I got a little heated.

I was lucky enough not to be chat restricted in the first place because I was only rude in a few games, so I took some time off to avoid punishment and cool down. I really don't think it's fair to put another negative mark onto my account because salty and angry players chose to report me out of spite. It makes it even worse that in those games, I kept the atmosphere positive despite being behind, but my AFK, rude, and flaming teammates got me punished.

9 Comments

Deep Terror Nami8/2/2016, 12:05:50 PM1 votes

It's not like your report record goes away after a week of not playing. A review was not triggered in your games last week because there weren't enough reports, but you received enough today; the system was not wrong in punishing you because it still found sufficiently consistent toxicity. The fact that a "non-toxic" game triggered the review doesn't change that.

Everybody in every game could report you, but if you aren't being negative then the reports won't do anything no matter how many times a review is triggered or how often you play. If you're having trouble with other players in chat, just mute them to minimize the damage they do (and report them if you feel necessary).