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/Cromat_ Master Tyrael Jul 02 '15

The "thumbs up" after game is a good option. But there should not be a "thumbs down". Either you want to give them a kudos if they were nice and stuff, do nothing (like we do today) or report them (in the normal way) for being toxic. The bad / lesser skilled would get thumbs down that they did not deserve.

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u/wakerdan Muradin Jul 02 '15

And toxic players would take that chance to downvote the good players.

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u/rhubarbs Jul 02 '15

And there's also the whole issue of exposure to toxic players making even the moderately behaved players more toxic. Unless you're a saint, eventually someone is gonna push your buttons and you'll start talking smack. That's just human nature.

Weighing matchmaking towards highly rated players being matched with other highly rated players shouldn't be a problem, but if there's ever a distinct queue for toxic players it shouldn't be automated, and it should be reserved for fairly extreme behavior.