Toxic players?

(Szakalot) #21

[quote=“t3hsquirr3l;33848”]I think restricting negative votes to a single person on your team only would actually be pretty effective.

I really think that no visible markings or actions of any kind should be taken for every downvote, only after a certain threshold of votes over a certain period of time with worsening consequences if it continues.

That way, the truly toxic that simply cannot control themselves will eventually lock themselves out while preventing large amounts of random abuse. For example, if an entire team were to coordinate to troll an innocent (which I consider unlikely), the votes from that single game wouldn’t be enough by itself to tip the scale.

And if a player is truly being just the worst human possible, even one vote per game will stack up over a week or so and they’d begin seeing penalties and lockouts unless they let up.

No system is perfect of course, but I think some kind of effort is better than none at all even if it means erring on the side of preventing abuse and letting some trolls go.

could even still limit the number of downvotes available per week to further discourage random downvoting, and at least limit the damage random downvoters could do.[/quote]

exactly! nailed it.

Downvoting a player should be rare and punishing. For every salty-troll that wants to bash an innocent, the troll would likely get 5 times as many bad votes. Once per day/week seems like a good amount, how many bad votes will you get, really, if the troll can only bash one teammate on the server?

Upvoting should be easy and not-so-rewarding. Thus good players will amass huge amounts of upvotes quickly, and trolls will struggle to keep up.

There are way-way more nice players in the game than nasty trolls; its just that nice behavior (read: normal behavior) is easily overshadowed by a single asshole.

edit:
plus having only one rating available for a single player limits abuse heavily as well.

great board-game-online website that deals with reputation marvelously

(LANshark) #22

press tab, right click over his name, press vote kick. i don’t like doing it but sometimes it has to be done. its a thing.

You can also press F5 and vote to balance teams by skill. I rarely see it happen. It’s also a thing.

(opicr0n) #23

Its better to focus on positive vote reputation instead of negative reputation tbh.

(Zerlathon) #24

Honestly, I just think a report function should do it.

Any sort of rep system in a game does more harm than good, especially if there are penalties to having a negative rep. Whilst I’m sure that there will be people who would use it with genuine intentions, you’ll find the majority will just bump up their friend’s rep and/or put a minus on people who outplay them or whom they deem are “not good enough”.

(Szakalot) #25

[quote=“Zerlathon;40008”]Honestly, I just think a report function should do it.

Any sort of rep system in a game does more harm than good, especially if there are penalties to having a negative rep. Whilst I’m sure that there will be people who would use it with genuine intentions, you’ll find the majority will just bump up their friend’s rep and/or put a minus on people who outplay them or whom they deem are “not good enough”.[/quote]

read the discussion:

if you can only negatively rep a person once per day/48h/week, you are more likely to save your rep for that cheater/griefer/asshole-on-the-mic. Or you give it away freely, but dont get to salty bad rep another good player for a while. So the trollers who just want to downvote everyone are a minor impact.

In the meantime, good players will give each other reps (they will bump their friends too, which is why its important to make it EASY to get good rep), all the time.

Only one rep per player, so you can only give +1 to your friends, and they have to get the rest from other people.

(Natemajor) #26

[quote=“Szakalot;6360”]I would absolutely love to implement some type of reputation system in the game. You can upvote and downvote one player each, bringing in some ‘dirty reputation’
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That would be great like if you play with a really good player who is also nice you can give him dirty points and if it’s a bad guy whose really mean you could give him bitch points :smiley: