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Questions about communication abuse
I know communication abuse is a reportable offense, it says in the game rules: "Insults, intimidation, hateful speech, repeated harassment" can lead to temporary bans, but how seriously is this taken? When I play this game, I unfortunately get a lot of really REALLY mean people in my lobbies. Between my time playing yesterday and today I've had one person say: "I bet you're brown skinned" followed by "All ethnic people should die". My next match: "ggez trash killer, your mom's upstairs why don't you go give her a hug, loser". People calling me garbage, worthless, trash, loser, telling me I deserve to die and a bunch of other extremely hurtful insults.
I'm not a super sensitive person, I can take the salt when someone loses to me or when I get beat really badly. It's a game, and there are going to be a lot of toxic people. It doesn't feel good, but it's not the end of the world. But it just feels so much more common lately, and it has really taken its toll on my mood/mental health. I played 3 matches today and had to stop because people were just being extremely mean, and it crashed my desire to play. I think some people feel like they can just say whatever they want because they don't think they're gonna suffer any sort of consequence for what they're saying to other people in game.
I understand you can hide the end game chat, but that just takes away the one social aspect of the game that already feels lacking. I love talking to my solo queue teammates and the killer post-game and talking about whatever happened in the match. I don't want to have that taken away from me just because there are people who want to use it to be toxic.
So my questions are these:
- How seriously is communication abuse taken in terms of reports?
- Where is the threshold to where you should make a report? (I know calling someone a "camper" or a "tunneler" or "toxic" or other minor inconveniences isn't bannable obviously, but where is that line where it goes from being a sore loser to insults/hateful speech?)
- Why does the chat filter block out some character names, perks, game mechanics, streamers and other weird unrelated words, but not genuine insults, slurs and hate speech?
And then to open it up to all of you forum dwellers, how is your experience with people being rude in the end game chat? Do you just hide the chat when it starts to bother you? Do you stop playing? Do you ever bother making a report?
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Have you considered deleting the game?
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I have met some of the worst people in DBD.
Yes, I turn off my messages if it's getting particularly bad.
I do usually stop playing.
I do not bother reporting. They're usually smart enough to know how to get around the systems.
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see above
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It's always survivors for me. I think I've seen one salty killer message afterwards and that's since the huntress release.
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I do occasionally. Whenever I feel like the game is just really bad for my sanity or I’m fed up with the state of the game, I just uninstall it and reinstall after a few months. But I’ve invested a lot of time and money into the game, so I’m always really hesitant to just let it go yknow? DBD is an addiction for sure lol
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Yeah, this is the kind of stuff I experience in my matches too, it’s horrible.
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no more than any other game tbh honestly i've seen, received, and gave far worse than everything anyone has ever said to me from playing dbd
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I actually found it really bothersome as well. It was always something, survivors mad I didn’t do a. b. Or c. when playing w them and equally angry when playing killer against them.
I play on Xbox series x, so I just changed my Xbox account settings to friends only and it’s been so peaceful.
Sometimes it does suck not being able to say gg or talk positively w someone after, but the pros greatly outweigh the cons and I’ve found it much better.
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You have to use a bit of your own judgement here but when in doubt report them anyway.
If what they said made you uncomfortable there is a big chance it was bad enough to report
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You should play something single player this weekend,take a break and idk, it's how the world always have been and will.They'll be shotty people,who say the most hurtful thing.Nothing we can really due to change it.One thing I know if you give into it then it exists,and effects you.How you let it effect you is the important part.
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It never amazes me how ######### ppl act towards one another. I’m on console with msgs turned off and anything else turned off like following or friend requests due to this game.
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Not gonna lie, when I saw "communication abuse" I thought "ahh -- another one who says using Discord is cheating", but yeah, you are right.
A certain ammount of salt and trashtalk is fun and ok, but there are quite some players (mostly survivors) who wish you and your loved ones death or doom and gloom and the worst kind of illnesses.
If its just trashtalk I don't bother, but this death wishes, I report and afaik this is the stuff that can get you banned for a day or two and I think this kinda people can take a slap on the wrist to get a reality check and maybe THINK a little bit before writing this kinda stuff down.
There are limits for everything and this kinda abuse should not be tolerated, otherwise they never learn. And most of them probably can become decent human beings
EDIT: for some more lighthearted salty comments, I posted some funny stuff about a year ago.
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Me when I'm ignorant.
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I play survivor 99.9% of the time. We can indeed be salty and go like "tunneling and camping killer". My personal favorite that I use when I go up against an extremelly sweaty killer is simply to wish them to get 10 SWFs in a row. One time there was a flashlight duo bullying a newbie Wesker and they were like trash killer at the end and I simply told them it's not nice cause he has only one perk and they were like ok and didn't say anything further.
As for when I've played killer a couple of times I haven't really received much hate in post game chat. Maybe I've received thank you for hatch and that's about it, or people complaining about their two teammates who left them to die. As I have crossplay on, obviously most people can't communicate with me.
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Bless lower-mid mmr, where people are not as invested in their wins and are often quite nice... Might be Pan syndrome, but I don't look forward to rising in skill and meeting those charming players.
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Ngl the one about hugging your mom is a good one, and is just wholesome trash talk if it was just that. The other example is definitely one to report though.
Not sure about how it works with behaviour and response time, but i find microsoft to be pretty quick and good on that stuff, i will also trash talk back and can usually get them to say something to get them banned, if they really bug me.
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