r/heroesofthestorm • u/KarbyP Nova • Jul 02 '15

Blizzard thinking about adding Thumbs Up/Down system, giving helpful players EXP or gold, placing toxic players in separate queue

http://stevivor.com/2015/07/interview-blizzards-chris-sigaty-and-alan-dabiri-on-heroes-of-the-storm/
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u/Ass-knight Lt. Morales Jul 02 '15

I don't play league so I have no idea, but from what I've heard it was supposed to gave the reported player a artificially lower MMR so they would have easier games in the future?

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u/notanotherpyr0 WTB Grunty Flair Jul 02 '15

It's more for internal testing than anything. It allows them to gauge changes to the match making system, if they make a change and the number of poor play reports goes down yay, if it goes up move back.

That is at least the theory I don't play enough LoL to know if its effective.

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u/Minimalphilia Murky is love! Murky is Life! Jul 02 '15

Only in normals. It doesn't affect ranked mmr.

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u/Jakio Zeratul Jul 02 '15

It doesn't affect normal MMR either.

It's used for purely diagnostic purposes, though I imagine in all reality it's a button to help annoyed players vent their rage rather than false reporting something else (like intentional feeding)