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Just got harassed for dying alot due to better players smurfing in non ranked and got accused of feeding so lemmie explain what feeding is real quick:

Purposeful Feeding is: when you dont attempt to help your team with kills, towers, minions, etc. And just give yourself up to the enemy team so the game can end quicker.

Purposeful Feeding is not: dying a lot and being a bad player.

Know the difference kids!

Edit: im not talking about accidental feeding where you just suck. Thats not an offense. Purposely feeding is what im talking about, which is an offence and you can get a strike for it. Sorry im really not good with words so i hope this clarifys something at least.

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over 3 years ago - /u/HiRezAjax - Direct link

Originally posted by Sinisterniik

I hope I linked this correctly

This was one of his responses to my post talking about wildly different skills levels in my games.

It sounds like OPs play group should be using the report button more.

The conversation was nuanced. I pressed him specifically on this issue for clarification. He was very specific about how to report:

As for reporting -use the "did not play assigned role" option - or use "intentional feeding" or "afk" if they are dying/ignoring fights to a detriment.

I expressed my displeasure with giving someone a ban over being a "bad player", but he didn't respond.

I did not intend to "encourage you to report bad players" And in, fact you should not report people who are trying their best but struggling.

You should report people who are not playing their role, or AFKing, not fighting, spamming taunting following you instead, etc - i said this pretty clearly in one of my responses too.

My main point of all the these lengthy responses to you is - people are inconsistent and going to have bad games - that doesnt mean matchmaking is broken - it also does not mean you should report them either tho.

You seem to be misinterpreting just the very short phrase i used in the very first response to you (sounds like OPs playgroup should use the report button more) - and that was intended just to clarify that you have that option when people arent even trying to play the game, but it sounds like you always thought they were even in some of your more egregious examples? Which i guess is my mistake.

I even looked up multiple games for you in DMs and saw zero issues of matchmaking problems and was able to confirm that most "feeders" in your games were strong players just having bad games. So im surprised to hear you still have this takeaway from our discussions.

Hopefully this one will set things straight...