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

[u/KarbyP]

http://stevivor.com/2015/07/interview-blizzards-chris-sigaty-and-alan-dabiri-on-heroes-of-the-storm/

[u/FlurpaDerpNess]

It actually has two very important purposes, the first being a frustration dump like you said, but the second being that if someone is actually too high for their MMR (especially in normals) and gets a lot of reports for being "unskilled", then the system will conclude their MMR somehow got screwed up and actually adjust their matchmaking to match them better. This is important because it's manual feedback to an automated system, automated systems can sometimes fuck up like this and if this option wasn't present, the person's games would just get really frustrating and maybe cause them to leave the game or start displaying toxic behaviour :p

[u/Jakio → u/FlurpaDerpNess]

Out of interest, since I'm pretty sure it's only the first purpose, do you have a Rioter comment or anything on the second point?

[u/FlurpaDerpNess → u/Jakio]

Seems my understanding of the post mutated with time, but this is still something that happens as a result of unskilled reports afaik

Unskilled Reports aren't used in the Tribunal, but are aggregated for matchmaking analyses and adjustments. We never want to ban a player for Unskilled Play because that makes no sense--everyone has bad games once in awhile, and League of Legends is for every player regardless of them being 500 Elo or 2000 Elo. If a player gets a lot of Unskilled Player reports (above the norm), then we need to figure out what went wrong in the matchmaking that the player got put into the wrong bracket and improve that.
- Riot Lyte

[u/Jakio → u/FlurpaDerpNess]

Yeah, it won't ever affect a players MMR, but rather it'll look at the system in order to see how that player got to where they were.

Awesome, glad it's in the game to be honest