So I’ve been slowly going down in behaviour even tho I’m winning most of my games and making my way to 8k mmr, so I only pick meta, dont grief, break items, etc, all the things needed to have a high winrate. 2 behaviour scores ago I got 5900 communication score, so my chat was cut off, meaning I can only ping, although I didnt take a screenshot of that summary since I didn’t know what was gonna happen next. Turns out, even with chat muted I got reported for communication and it impacted negatively on my score, which lead to this score:
I was like, OK that’s good to know, even if you can’t use chat your score can go down, so I took a screenshot to see what would happen if I just keep playing the way I do, will it go down? Will it stay the same?
Well this is what happened:
My behaviour score went up, because like I said, possitive winrate, no griefing, nothing toxic, BUT COMMUNICATION STAYS THE SAME EVEN THO I CAN’T SAY A THING.
The possitive: If you tryhard, carry your team every game, and become a god at dota to climb mmr, you wont get reported as often, get a ton of commends and raise your behaviour score MAYBE. Good luck if you are a bad player, you wont get out tho lol.
The negative: People simply are reporting for anything, even if you can’t communicate and Valve is treating every report under communication as a positive and taking action.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
People just spam report now, I’m pretty sure it’s all automated
I actually tested it with a friend awhile back, when the system was first updated and I didn’t ping, use chat wheels or any voice/text coms (just Discord) for 20-30 matches (until my score updated) and he left party during the game and reported me every game, and asked others to do the same (for the memes, not sure how many people actually listened)for coms abuse both text and voice and it showed that on my new report and I dropped from 12k to 11.8k.
Meaning that Valve is prioritizing mass MEANINGLESS reports over actual offenses being committed and it also means that you are entirely correct. The system is 100% automated and doesn’t even consider the fact that you literally don’t communicate in ANY WAY into account for coms reports.