Employ a rewards based system for good behaviour
At the end of a match give the option for players to rate how good someone’s behaviour was during a match. When a player is awarded for their good behaviour grant them an incentive to keep this sort of behaviour up.
This reward can take place in many forms but my idea is to tie this system to an exclusive skins reward pool where special skins can only be bought through this system. So like let’s say each player can only award one good behaviour token a day and they allocate that to a well behaved team mate. And after earning enough “good behaviour tokens” players can choose to save up the currency to buy whatever special skins they want when the devs release them for the hero’
I think this system is a step above the current “endorsement system” as the reward for being appraised is too minor as most players don’t see the “risk” of losing out some extra xp on the battle pass. I don’t think the current system provides enough incentive for the majority of players to check their behaviour and be a positive force in the community but this alternate system can encourage that with exclusivity and bragging rights which I believe is a much greater incentive.
Also decent chance that more people will go into comms to show good etiquette to perhaps leave a good impression and thus be rewarded? And by extension if the community is less toxic more people would be willing to talk and join the chat as I’ve noticed that lots of people dont join due to the risk of being flamed or even if you’re just a girl as a decent amount of guys out there act out or single you out when the fact is revealed.
Another idea I had in mind was to tie good behaviour to stat buffs but rewarding it that way seems a bit ludicrous 😅.
Another extension that could be implemented is to implement a bad player rating and penalise rude players by giving them penalties as ratings stack up but that system is already similarly placed with the reporting system and I could also see it being abused just because some players might have done badly in games.
But let me know your thoughts on this and if you think these ideas can lead the community to better change please upvote and maybe we can get the attention of the devs?
Everything that tries to push more social shit into the game gets a no.