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Vdstrk
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

We need to talk about voice chat harassment...

OK. I guess we've all been there. Team mate A Apes a 3 stack pred in pubs gets erased. Meanwhile your other team mate is AFK somewhere at the end of the map. All you have got are 5 P2020, 3 sights that don't fit it, 2 stocks for a rifle that is nowhere to be found, and 180+ of energy ammo --nothing else, not even a Mozambique.

You hurry to try to collect the banner of your now "boxed up" team mate, only to be erased by the same 3 pred stack.

All of that only to be showered with racial name calling, comments about your IQ, how your mom has questionable habits, and told how unfair the world is given that some lethal illness hasn't yet wiped your entire lineage.

AND, if you report it you get told the following, "If this was a voice chat report, we don’t currently collect voice data or recordings so we can't take any action on voice chat. We're still working on the best way to review reported voice chats."

Fun playing with you dear stranger! I wish your vocabulary would expand and you would learn a different variety of words. Words that can actually HELP your team mate(s), potentially before being erased from the match!

But hey, perhaps you're only having a terrible day (or life?).

I forgive you.

GG

2 Replies

  • @Vdstrk Yeah, this is a major problem. IMO, voice chat harassment is even worse than someone typing a few choice words in chat, but one is punished and the other means the person has nothing happen to them.
    Sadly, I imagine there are technical limitations, because it would be hard to avoid errors in the case of transcriptions. I generally mute teammates always now, because I would say 9.7 times out of 10 they literally have nothing useful to say. Either they're eating, playing annoying music, burping, talking with a friend constantly during the game or taking time out of their busy day to scream at strangers. No thanks.
  • l_m4ch1n4_l's avatar
    l_m4ch1n4_l
    Rising Hotshot
    2 years ago

    To be honest I do not see the point of banning people for swearing in chat or voice, the simple solution is to just give 24-hour mute, and if they curse again 72-hour mute......

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