Quoting: GoboI'm not sure if the proposed system will work out well enough for everyone. If for example a player that appears to be female is constantly harassed and therefore reports lots of people, the weighted system will gradually ignore those complaints. Just keep in mind that not everyone filing lots of complaints is a hypochondriac snowflake. And the offenders in those cases might very well be the ones that cause more harm on the community and game experience than those mass reporters, so downplaying complaints on them actually works as support for them and punish their current and future victims.

Honestly, in years of CS:GO playing, I only met a few female players. But these where treated well. In my experience it is more the case, that it comes with "hey cool, a girl that plays CS".
Of course as I am male, I might have a different experience than a female player.
You also have players where you can not really decide, if the voice is from a 12 year old or a girl - but who cares. As long as a player behaves well, no one really cares.
Sometimes people get unfriendly when your team is on the loose, but that can hit everyone. When you are the last one against 3 and you just kill 2, you may get insulted. But I do not really care. You can mute single players and you know very fast, whom to mute.

It is a good thing, that they invest in getting rid of bad behaving people.

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Quoting: SirLootALotIsn't the entire point of cs:go to swear at each other in russian?

Hmm, I play CS:GO for years and that is not the case. Sometimes you find this toxic russians, but the most russianns I played with, are fine people with good behavior.
But it also seem to depend on your rank. The longer you play and the higher the rank gets, the less cheaters and toxic behaviour you find.
But sadly there are sometimes kind "waves" of cheaters even in the higher ranks. But I think that is until VAC detects the new cheats and then it gets ok again.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: SalvatosInteresting, but I hope it doesn’t start penalizing people who make frequent legitimate reports... I would expect people who are frequently targeted by reports to be weighted down instead.

... The toxic masculinity (and that's what we're talking about here in the end) that has more or less defined gaming culture since its inception needs to be finally removed from it.

Oh I think you forgot to mention that it is WHITE toxic masculinity! Of course women (and divers people?) do never show toxic behavior. Masculinity is the root of all evil (at least in the gaming world)!

It is really sad, that you bring this nonsense into the discussion. Hope you can find the irony.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: einherjarIsn't that bizarre?
If they do something bad -> They get hated
If they do something god -> They get hated

I'd find the opposite bizarre. You can't switch between love and hate every other day. You take into account what someone is doing and judge based on that. Of course, this judgement may change over time, but it shouldn't completely switch sides with every new action.

I do not hate and I do not love them. But I judge things they do. And even when a person/company I dislike, does something good, it is not automatically turning into something bad.
To sad that the world is not only black and white, eh?

You are missing the point and your insinuation is unwarranted. If someone has proved a few times that their motives are suspect, then it is not unreasonable to interrogate their motives if they do something that does not seems consistent with your assessment of their motives and personality.
Look, I've been on a union negotiating team at contract time. And I will tell you, that while sure, sometimes a management negotiator who was perfidious before may turn over a new leaf and decide to believe in win-win, if they told you they were making you a great offer, and someone on your team was willing to just assume that was true, you would not call your fellow negotiator "Someone who sees that the world is not only black and white", you would call them "an idiot".

It is really kinda LOL to me. You compare apples to pears. EPIC makes a grant, they do not want something in return. So they do not rely on what EPIC wants or not. That is a total different situation.
And if you really want to break everything down to your "Example", you end up that there is only "the good ones" and the "always bad ones". Nice, the world is so simple.

It gets more weird to me, when I remind me of what happens, when there is an article about Godot here in GOL. If they get funded well via patreon - OH THAT IS GREAT! A GREAT LINUX SUPPORTING FOSS PROJECT GETS FUNDED WELL.
If the money comes from EPIC, without asking for anything in return: Yeah.. of course that is just a bad thing! Just look at the comments above...

Then lets agree to disagree.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: einherjarIsn't that bizarre?
If they do something bad -> They get hated
If they do something god -> They get hated

I'd find the opposite bizarre. You can't switch between love and hate every other day. You take into account what someone is doing and judge based on that. Of course, this judgement may change over time, but it shouldn't completely switch sides with every new action.

I do not hate and I do not love them. But I judge things they do. And even when a person/company I dislike, does something good, it is not automatically turning into something bad.
To sad that the world is not only black and white, eh?

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Quoting: vmGuys. Guys. Do you realize how much money is $250k? ...

Than give another "nothing" to them. They will appreciate it.

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Quoting: enigmaxg2Gotta love Epic!! they give money to open source projects but at the same time they're killing Linux support for rocket league (they bought Psyonix) and actively trying to kill Linux support in games entirely.

Could you give us a source for that? Would Psyonix have continued supporting MAC/LINUX when they would not have been bought by EPIC? Where is the proof?

You don't have to compulsively blame everything bad on EPIC.

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EPIC did something nice with a positive effect to Linux and FOSS.
So calm down and do not hate them for doing something good.

Isn't that bizarre?
If they do something bad -> They get hated
If they do something god -> They get hated

Why should they do nice things then?

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Huh, I could not find DXVK in the category "Favourite FOSS project" :O

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: SchattenspiegelWhat I find even more concerning is that they are still selling the game with Linux and Mac support with no mention that the support will end on Steam (unless you you are lucky enough to see the small news section entry that will be buried before long)

Indeed, the SteamOS icon should have been removed with the announcement, it shows how little they care about us really.

It shows how little they care, to be serious/reputable company that deserves the trust of their customers IMHO.

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