This is exactly what i am talking about. Its the same for everyone who experiences it. You will go to less than 6k comms score then it will freeze. This process can be started in a game where nobody uses comms at all and nobody griefs, all it takes is one enemy spamming 6 reports on you.

You dont need to say you are an angel for this not to be a bug - I highly doubt ANY of the people commenting here have never got frustrated in a dota game and told someone to fuck off or whatever. Hate speech like racism or death threats should not really be tolerated, but at the end of the day, every player already has the ability to mute any other player completely separately from this behaviour system.

What is currently happening is, after something was changed a few weeks ago, players are being issued automated overwatch penalties after a single game with “high report rate”, which I believe, after some basic testing, can be triggered by a single player spamming 6 reports. This then begins a downward spiralling of comms score until it reaches below 6k, where it will freeze in place. This can happen even with chat disabled. This is clearly a bug or some kind of unintentional behaviour and needs fixing, regardless of your opinion on “toxicity in videogames”

When you are below 6k you can’t do any of these things. And yet in the last 50 games the Comms score is bugged and won’t change by a single digit. This is a widely reported bug. Please can we stop victim blaming the people who have been affected by a widespread and reproducible bug.

You have been hit by the bug that is affecting many, many people right now. Over the next week or two expect your Comms score to drop below 6k then freeze in place, with you unable to communicate and unable to increase the score.

The Magnus just spammed 6 reports on you, you see him do it in the replay. This was enough for you to get an overwatch penalty, even though no human assessed the game.

Just ignore the troll. This oh so saintly 12k score player is not engaging with your points and has no interest in having a discussion in good faith. It’s not worth your time to argue. Anyone with more than 2 brain cells can see these comments and behaviour for what they are.

Calls others toxic, is themselves toxic and abusive in replies. Never change Reddit.

You have never seen this or a similar scenario in any of your games? Never once has someone made a decision in your game, suffered a negative consequence, and immediately called to report a different player that they blame?

Either you have only ever played less than 5 games of Dota or you are a liar. None of any of this has anything to do with “my mental fortitude”. You seem unhinged and delusional with this comment.

This is what I also made a post about, and i received a whole load of actually “toxic” responses from the saintly redditors who deny there is a bug because they have not experienced it themselves.

I experienced a random overwatch penalty after a game that we won comfortably but it could easily seem like I was smurfing. In less than 2 weeks my scores dropped from 11k to 7k and 5k Comms. Since then I get assessed with an overwatch penalty after every game, even though I am muted for being below 6k Comms now. I can see my behaviour score changing slightly but Comms has not changed a single digit despite getting an updated summary every game (due to OW penalties).

There is some bug that makes the scores rapidly drop to below 6k and then freeze. This has now affected nearly everyone on my friends list. There does not seem to be anyway to increase Comms score once it drops below 6k. Once comms score goes below 10k it seems to decrease rapidly even in games where you cannot communicate. This is obviously not the intended behaviour and has no bearing on a player’s behaviour.

My theory is it is related to each player being able to give another player 6 reports, that are counted as 6 separate reports. The threshold has not been changed from the old system, and so getting 3+ reports in a game is still flagged as “high report rate”, despite in now being possible to receive 54 reports in a single game, which can be issued completely independently of your actual behaviour or communication use.

Sorry, you seem to have failed to read the post and have made an unrelated comment.

I don’t need to post a “conduct summary” or even play the game at all to make suggestions. I am also stating that there is some bug / issue for low score players that allows them to be issued an automated unverified overwatch penalty after a single game, which should obviously never be the case.

Could you try responding to the actual post instead of exhibiting the condescending and holier than thou attitude I explicitly spoke out against?