Reporting players for toxic actions absolutely works. Several Hundred players are banned each week through reporting. Could we still do more with this system? probably, and we are constantly working on the behind the scenes portions of it.
It isnt really practical or wise to do 100% of your player behavior moderation through reporting, as it can be unreliable (lots of players do not report) and it could be abusable if it was too easy to clog up the system through frivolous reports. It also can be a bad idea to overly explain in detail how the system works, as it can help toxic players to work around it. But we do rely on reporting for a solid chunk of our moderation, and every single report helps.
We added a feature back in Season 5 that was a big improvement to the reporting system. Now, when you report a player, we have a system that tracks message spam, non-combat time, afk time, KDA, VGS spam, and etc that multiplies the report. So if you report someone and t...
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