Silenced account suggestion

[Zabatakis]

So let me first start this off by saying my account has never been silenced, and as far as I can remember I have only personally insulted 1 person in game. In that case a guy was constantly saying we should just give up because we lost 2 fights and I told him we just needs to think of a better strategy idiot. I do report jackasses, but have not done so for abusive chat.

That said, I understand the more passionate some people are about winning they are more likely to tilt. These people get silenced (as they should. if you cannot control yourself it is for the better of the game community you get muted) but I feel a Silenced person is very limited in what they can contribute. Pretty much a few ping commands, but nothing regarding problems with strategy or anything. The thing is, a guy going nuts calling everyone idiots or w/e does not bother me in the very least. If he is contributing zero to the match in terms of strategy or teamwork then I mute him/her. If they are contributing but still insulting, then I just filter out the insults. I am a big boy I can handle it. There was a silenced guy that pinged all match once, that was super annoying.

Anyhow, I would like to be in charge of deciding if I want to put up with these people or not instead of Blizzard. The mute player command exist and I think it works great. I also feel some people need to be silenced for sure, but I feel like the show mature language it should be optional. Any person who normally would get silenced still should, but I would like an option to unmute them on my screen via the untoggle mute button, and perhaps an option in there somewhere to auto unmute silenced players and I can just mute them later in the match if I want. People who have problems with tilting players can not click this option and choose to never unmute them at all, and the game would be no different for them now than with this change.

I mean there is already a language filter for people who can handle language and people who can't. I get to decide to take that off because I can handle swear words. I would also like the option to decide if I can handle a player who will call me a dumbshit if I miss my stun or w/e, and I imagine some out there handle even more than I do before muting.

Again, I do mute players. Some people need to be auto muted (silenced account). I just want an option to decide if I can handle it the same as mature chat filter.



Thoughts on this?

[Muis]

My experience with silenced players (majority, not all) - is that they add nothing to the team at all.
Sure, there are some good players silenced at times (just check some tourneys and you can see good players with a silenced icon) but most of them are just rage kiddies.

Most of them just spam ping something or someone at times that are dumb (team 2 people down - they spam ping you because you are not at the objective.. - no shit sherlock, I dont wanna feed them too) or they are feeding like crazy, like 5 deaths in 6mins.

Personally, I don't want them to be in HL at all. I don't know how long a silence lasts so maybe its too harsh, but they are more often then not just dead weight.
Not just because they can't talk, but because they are usually the worst players in the team.

[Nerraw]

I don't know how long a silence lasts

First silence lasts 24 hours, next one 48 hours, then 96 hours, and so on. So it's not like you're not warned that you're moving into questionable territory when you get one for the first time.

[Demona3]

My experience with silenced players have been less than.. admirable. I honestly wish instead of them just getting silenced, they would get banned from HL all together for the duration of the silence punishment. I've yet to win a game with a silenced person. They do nothing but lane, ignore you, the team, and the objective. Also, the other thing they do.. constantly ping. It drives me nuts. They are a drain and I expect to lose the match when I'm grouped with one.

[Nerraw]

My experience with silenced players have been less than.. admirable. I honestly wish instead of them getting silenced, they would get banned from HL all together for the duration of the silence punishment. I've yet to win a game with a silenced person. They do nothing but lane and ignore you, the team, and the objective. Also, the other thing they do.. constantly ping. It drives me nuts. They are a drain and I expect to lose the match when I'm grouped with one.

I won one match earlier with one on my team, he actually played a mean Stitches. It's still not looking good for the statistics though; I've had at least silenced player on either team in almost every match I've played today. I think I've managed to squeeze in 15-20. They're absolutely everywhere after the free weekend event.

[DeadmanWalking]

I got silenced recently because when I loaded into a game my buttons went all weird (I use the base config) and left click which moves the camera over the map was now pinging that spot, Q did nothing, E was signaling retreat. I was playing as Dehaka and that obviously made bushing impossible, I ended up crashing the game and reloading which fixed the problem but by then I was silenced as I would forget my left button and E didn't work properly.

[Vulturia]

Every time I see a silenced player, my first thought is "why the hell am I matched with him?". Being silenced should clearly prevent you from joining HL. If you are constantly getting reported, most likely it's because you are contributing to losses, through bad attitude or intentionally bad play.

I have lost several games partly because people started raging at each other waaaay before the game was completely lost.

[Acidbaron]

I win more games when silenced since i don't have to point out all the morons their terrible plays. Still get plenty of morons silenced or not since pings are still too hard to read for people.

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My experience with silenced players have been less than.. admirable. I honestly wish instead of them just getting silenced, they would get banned from HL all together for the duration of the silence punishment. I've yet to win a game with a silenced person. They do nothing but lane, ignore you, the team, and the objective. Also, the other thing they do.. constantly ping. It drives me nuts. They are a drain and I expect to lose the match when I'm grouped with one.

And i want a decent matchmaking system and a HL without placements, sad truth is can't always get what you want. The thing with pings is, listen to them the only reason i have to spam pings is that people again can't retreat after 3 pings and wonder why they die over and over again like lemmings falling into a pit.

[Demona3]

I win more games when silenced since i don't have to point out all the morons their terrible plays. Still get plenty of morons silenced or not since pings are still too hard to read for people.

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And i want a decent matchmaking system and a HL without placements, sad truth is can't always get what you want. The thing with pings is, listen to them the only reason i have to spam pings is that people again can't retreat after 3 pings and wonder why they die over and over again like lemmings falling into a pit.

The people I get grouped with who are silenced... ping..ping everything..every time they possibly can. People, objects, roads. They ping retreat, etc. Non-stop pings, it's one thing to warn, it's another thing to be beyond fucking annoying with it.

[Lesane]

They should just remove silenced players from the regular queue and only let them play with each other. I don't care if they have to wait 30 minutes for a game.

[Zabatakis]

They should just remove silenced players from the regular queue and only let them play with each other. I don't care if they have to wait 30 minutes for a game.

Yeah now that you mention it even a ban would be preferable to me than silence, or just make them play together I suppose. But playing with a silenced person does suck even if they are trying it is a undue burden to the team to get someone that can't communicate.

I got silenced recently because when I loaded into a game my buttons went all weird (I use the base config) and left click which moves the camera over the map was now pinging that spot, Q did nothing, E was signaling retreat. I was playing as Dehaka and that obviously made bushing impossible, I ended up crashing the game and reloading which fixed the problem but by then I was silenced as I would forget my left button and E didn't work properly.

Jeez how many games did you play like this? Can't imagine a few games would be enough but then what do I know about how they hand out the punishment.

[Deleted]

never won anything with silenced person on the team.... always just laning and ignoring others, sometimes pinging allgame long

I got silenced recently because when I loaded into a game my buttons went all weird (I use the base config) and left click which moves the camera over the map was now pinging that spot, Q did nothing, E was signaling retreat. I was playing as Dehaka and that obviously made bushing impossible, I ended up crashing the game and reloading which fixed the problem but by then I was silenced as I would forget my left button and E didn't work properly.

I'm having exactly same button bug lately (since Xul patch i think)... Q does nothing, E pings retreat and opening chat whispers to random person in team. Alt f4 and reload always fixes it... it's very annoying to lose like 4mins of the game

[AeneasBK]

I'm worried I'll get silenced simply because I play with Allied chat off these days. More often than not

I also find that I'm not confident that people necessarily appreciate the different role a "specialist" plays, getting criticised at for not jumping into the melee as Gazlowe at the 6 minute mark when I could quite easily destroy an entire keep base in that time; amongst others...

I get that it is a team brawler but there are certainly occasions in which a specialist can take advantage of the distraction offered by an objective or random "let's-have-a-brawl-over-nothing" fights that break out in QM often; and go shove a lane stupidly hard, or capture all 4 merc camps. Then when someone dies they'll get mad you weren't there.

As I'm playing a lot of specialist atm, I find its easier to just turn off chat.

[Nerraw]

I believe Silenced is purely for chat-related reports. So if you don't flame, you don't get Silenced! Also, what would it do to you if you already don't talk?

[Ballistic]

There are million reasons to flame on in HotS, usually I don't flame unless you are terribly terribly screwing our 20-30 mins into uselessness in ranked game especially when we don't have surrender option so I have to live with some people idiocy for all match duration. In QM you can do w/e you want go afk, feed... I don't care but not in ranked games.