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by staffordrj 3018 days ago
> Sure, you can report those players, but ultimately, someone has to review the games and I suspect this is quite impossible to achieve.

They don't have to review the games if one account has many reports of "Unsportsmanlike conduct".

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Tried and failed. You just reinvented the downvote button.
Decent sized Twitch streamers can easily get a big enough group of people to overwhelm the report thingy.
Then people who had a bad game get reported and banned.
But why? If someone always has a bad game, their matchmaking is seriously miscalibrated.
"But why?"

Because people are assholes. They'll blame that person for them losing a couple points on their rating, and report them as a form of revenge.

I really don’t get what you’re suggesting.

Why would the reports be anomalous?

Are you confused with this idea that people can be assholes, and in a moment of frustration would do something bad in the hopes of screwing over someone else?

There really isn't a deep thing here.

Do you believe that people are assholes in such an inconsistent manner that it can’t be adjusted for in large datasets?
If someone is a woman they will get brigaded by Gamergaters.

When designing any system you have to think about how it can be abused.