2013-05-28, 07:36 PM
Malthe Wrote:http://blog.dota2.com/2013/05/communication-reports/
Interesting stats, system seems to work.
I'd disagree to some extent. Sure, I might not get many games were people just insult or spam voice chat for no reason but the negative chat is always there: "You messed up, you feed, you didn't kill", "that item choice is stupid", your team fights suck plantain" and all those things that can be synthesized in just "you suck". And it's something that happens every game no matter what: "you won because whatever fed you" "I lost because my team is noob, stupid, they suck plantain ass, whatever". At one point when I was having one of my first matches out of bot games I had this couple of jerks yell at me because I wasn't doing something well, which demotivated me greatly from playing. Even now, I sometimes feel like quitting because of how frustrating it's to try your best just to get flamed by others (when they weren't even doing that great themselves but somehow feel entitled to attack you). And it's something I know reporting has no use for, because I do report people that do this too much and I never get the "Actions have been taken against the person you reported" message.
However, I do like where they are going with this and I hope that they improve it. I'd also like some sort of "campaign" for people to treat new players nicely, or better than what happens now. I'd like other players to be helpful when you're making mistakes, like when Dusk tells me do this or you should've done that, I can learn from that; but when someone tells me that I suck, that I only feed, that I'm being outclassed what is there for me to do other than feel bad about it? The other thing that should be implemented or considered is reports for players who ignore everything you say and contribute nothing to the game: like a game I had recently where I was playing Rubick and I asked a SB to let me mid but he ignored me, I asked him to gank and he ignored me, I asked him to join team fights and he also ignored me, and he ended up loosing lane, our team fights were really bad and it could've been avoided just by him acknowledging that someone else was talking to him.