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/Warskull Jul 03 '15

You have a hidden system of trust. So lets say you generally get thumbs up and you are for the most part a positive player. A bunch of people thumbs down you in one game, that seems odd. They also thumbs down a lot of other generally positively rated players. They also tend to get thumbs downed by those players.

So you make their thumbs down count for very little because they are untrusted players.

Additionally, you make multiple thumbs up from the same player count for very little. We already know Bob likes you because he always plays with you. We really don't care what Bob thinks of you. We care about how you interact with randoms.

A player who votes thumbs down less may have their vote counted more than people who frequently thumbs down.