Wonderful Plays wrote: ↑02 March 2024, 20:43I thought this was supposed to not work anymore, but unfortunately it does.
You're right. This is what they said:
→ Red Thumbs for competitive play
One last thing that is going to be changed in a few weeks will be the impact of the Red Thumbs.
You can currently give a Red Thumb to any player with which you had a bad game experience. This prevents you from competing against them in ranked games or the Arena, but not in Tournaments.
This system can, and unfortunately is, used to prevent some players from competing against the best players. Considering that the Red Thumb system is being abused this way, on purpose or not, we will update the way Red Thumbs are impacting the matchmaking for the next season.
But they never announced anywhere that I've seen that this was actually implemented or announced that they had reconsidered it. Just silence on the topic after making a public announcement with a specified timeframe ("for the next season"). Given the lack of communication on the "ELO System Updates" thread which has over 2 millions views and over 600 comments, this doesn't surprise me.
But it's not reportable now and never was. Given that some red thumbs are legitimate, all have to be allowed, because they are not going to do investigations into every claim of illegitimate red thumbs. Despite them finally admitting that it is "abuse," for things like this they need a one size fits all approach because it become infeasible to administer if you have to get a human involved. So until they change the effect of red thumbs, this is still behavior allowed by (if not endorsed by) the site and is not reportable.
