I’ve noticed that randomly in the middle of games my pings will be (seemingly) rate limited and sometimes go back to normal and sometimes not. It would be one thing if it was just reducing people spamming identical pings, but it seems not to care about whether the thing you’re pinging is unique, just general rate. It makes it hard to communicate using pings, so I’ve just gone back to using voice chat more. Personally, I find voice comms are usually distracting in ranked games when you can communicate the same info using pings, but the rate limiting seems really strict and inconsistent so it’s really hard to adjust to it. I don’t understand why valve continues to remove communication features that are misused in toxic ways instead of punishing people in toxic ways, especially when plenty of features that are basically only used for BM are left untouched.