The current Reporting system is in major need of an overhaul
Good players will constantly get spam reported. I hear players in the lobby saying they are reporting me. On my main account I did the lengthy Orion camo grind, and now am at risk of losing my voice and chat. I’ve been getting Report warnings and now moved on to 3 day bans, now a 14 day. And eventually a perma ban. I’ve received warnings for “Offensive chat” “Offensive voice” “offensive name”. My username is SharpFin and apparently I need to rename it. And I don’t ever say anything offensive. I made a 2nd account so I could hear and communicate with others during my 2 week ban and within 7 days, I’m already getting warnings again. I’m on console (PS5) I’ve seen numerous twitter posts from players dealing with this exact same issue. Hopefully this’ll be fixed with the S2 update
Posted Feb 13, 2023, 2:49 PM UTC
Do you, like many PS5 players, not realize that your controller mic is on by default and constantly broadcasting potato-tier noise to the lobby?
I would bet that many PS5 users are getting mass reported despite “never saying anything” because your team is constantly hearing your TV audio, eating, phone conversations, and smoke detector beeping.
Stop trying to look for random reasons to justify it.
Lots of people have been reported even though they didn't have a mic connected. I use push to talk and I unbound my talk key, so I can never talk to anyone, by choice. Yet, I've been reported several times for offensive voice and saw these warnings on my screen while in a game.
Tell me how offensive my voice is without listening to me talk. The system is broken and punishes people without evidence because multiple reports from the same person somehow equates to definitive proof.
It’s not a random reason. There’s easily one person with open-mic blasting irritating noise on my team in about 30% of games. They often get reported, and from their perspective they’re getting warnings and bans for no reason.
Myself and many others have played 1000+ games, and actually use our mics, and have never had a report notification. So to pretend there’s some epidemic of people “randomly” reporting everyone they meet, specifically for communication, is absurd, and suggests there’s something else going on. Such as you know, PS5 users being unaware that their controller is echoing game audio to their team in every lobby they join.
Tell me how on PC, with push-to-talk enabled and no voice activation key bound, while not speaking, am I able to get so many warnings for offensive voice.
That's explicitly what's going on. It's not a conspiracy. People are actually sitting there, repeatedly reporting someone multiple times for one of three things (Offensive Voice, Offensive Text Chat, Offensive Name) and getting people punished for it. People are being chat banned. All because someone beat them. It has nothing to do with controllers picking up other noises.
How do you explain this also happening to XBOX and PC players that aren't using the DualSense? What about the people stuck in last gen using the PS4?
Honestly, I don't care too much because I live in the 21st century and use Discord for voice and text. But some of these console dudes are stuck in the caveman times and it sucks that they're being actively attacked.
Stop pretending that this is a PS5 issue when it affects all platforms equally.
Had it happen two days ago to me and a friend in duos. We killed a pair at the start of the game, and they spectated us the ENTIRE game up until we died in the final circle, spouting shit in the text chat. I called it that we'd get warnings when we came back on.
Sure as fuck, the next day I got a text chat warning, and my friend got a voice chat warning... Despite me never having typed in the text chat, and we always use xbox voice chat.
First warning I've had anyway.
They just spam reported us for the entire duos game. Sad as anything.
See, I find your response to the other person’s question unnecessarily rude and hostile. They asked a question saying basically “could this be the issue?” And provided their own experience as to why they believe it could be a logical response.
There’s always going to be people that spam report cause they’re salty about a loss but that doesn’t mean that people wouldn’t report someone for having open mic and background noise so loud that they can’t even hear their own game. It may be really quiet for them but they have an amazing mic that picks it up like it’s asmr.
People mess up with muting and unmuting themselves all the time on any/all platforms. You have counted this by unbinding the key and that’s a great solution to that but not everyone unbinds it and causes misery for other players.
Not everyone is going to have an unfortunate time in meeting spam reporters. It could be that the servers are different, time that they’re on the game is different. There are so many factors that add to this. The commenter wanted context and you were hostile.
You're reaching to make your hypothesis work brotato. Assumptions 101.
You're just wrong. It happens all the time. If you're good enough and there's a party of bad losers on the other team they'll report you for everything they can. I have an inbox full of messages about how they reported me. They admit it. They're proud of it.
You don't get to pretend like we don't see this happening, rofl
Nope, I even have the PS5 mic to auto mute in the settings
Even though this is true, the correct action is just fucking mute that player not abuse the report system you tool
Personally, I always ask politely if they could turn off the open mic. 7 times of out 10 it’s no response, 2 times it’s “fuck off, mute me if you don’t like it”, and 1 is “damn sorry, forgot”.
Guess which ones get muted vs reported?
Really bro
I take it you’re one of the 20%?
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I have been told that I am getting reported multiple times for killing a said player during a game several times.
"Nah fuck this guy, report him. He shouldn't be in this lobby, report him" and you get some nicer messages followed with report.
Same. I got several of those screwing around on Shipment. Once while using the garbage Expedite 12 and once while running around with a DEagle. I was laughing because at the time I was using a PS5 controller with stick drift from hell. If I took my finger off the stick, I spun in a circle like I was Michael J Fox. Some people are legit cheating but some people can't accept there people better than them. So they have to be cheating!! It is the only answer. Those players reporting players just because they got their cheeks clapped should get banned. Especially when said person accused is innocent. Would cut down on a lot of these false reporting.
Exactly, they straight up admit it. There's no room for excusing this on anything but a crappy reporting system that makes no damn sense to begin with.
This isn’t an explanation at all, obviously your team mates would let you know if your ps5 controller mic was just spamming noise. False reports are a thing, my name is STAR and I just received an offensive name warning…on top of multiple chat warnings
If you have voice chat disabled, none of that shit applies. They don't hear anything.
I'll let them know they need to turn up the mic threshold, and sometimes they will tell me to kick rocks. At that point I mute everyone but them and blast drum n bass till they mute me.
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