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I just played a game with a player, let's call them Bob (although I can name the person's battletag if someone asks). I played Questline Shaman and Bob played I think Ramp Druid. I beat Bob fair and square, went face as much as possible since Bob didn't play much minions and I always had answer for everything he played. After the game, Bob sent me a friend request. He called me sucker (I don't care much for insults) and was salty for losing and said he would report me. I tried to report him for bad and toxic behavior, but couldn't for some reason (maybe because he unfriended me). I never reported someone since this option is added so my question is: what is the process behind it? When someone reports, does Blizzard always punish the reported person or do they investigate further? Is there a punishment for falsely reporting? Just curious if something happens that shouldn't have. Thanks :)

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I just played a game with a player, let's call them Bob (although I can name the person's battletag if someone asks). I played Questline Shaman and Bob played I think Ramp Druid. I beat Bob fair and square, went face as much as possible since Bob didn't play much minions and I always had answer for everything he played. After the game, Bob sent me a friend request. He called me sucker (I don't care much for insults) and was salty for losing and said he would report me. I tried to report him for bad and toxic behavior, but couldn't for some reason (maybe because he unfriended me). I never reported someone since this option is added so my question is: what is the process behind it? When someone reports, does Blizzard always punish the reported person or do they investigate further? Is there a punishment for falsely reporting? Just curious if something happens that shouldn't have. Thanks :)

 The report feature is not working yet. I'd recommend not accepting friend requests from people you don't know, because they are overwhelmingly toxic, and unless you enjoy their feats of rage, there's nothing for you to gain from them. Probably this is how reporting works:

1. If a player reports you, they will probably not look into it.

2. If multiple players report you, they will most likely look into your conversations.

3. If someone reports every opponent they lose to, they will probably be shadow banned from reporting, making them think they report so it takes their pain away, but also removing them from the system.

4. If a player insults you then threatens to report you, he is either lying or missing a screw in his central unit. Don't worry about these empty threats.

Thanks mate for your thoughts and explanation. Appreciate it. I mostly accept friend requests because there are some people who are genuine players who lost, but respect the game and the player. We later talked about our plays and it is fun.

The other side is just for fun. I laugh at their comments and insults because it makes me at laugh. 

Also, I don't know if there is somewhere explained this officially. I honestly didn't bother to search the internet, but what you said makes sense and I believe you. Thanks again :)

Nothing official yet announced, they just promised a working report feature soon. But this is roughly how it works in other games. 

This game absolutely does not need a report feature.  People who are not on your friends list cannot communicate with you.  If someone friends you and then sends you a message you don't like, you can simply unfriend them and then they cannot talk to you anymore.  This is a perfectly self-policing system with a completely effective user remedy for any toxicity.  Some people seem to just want to have a teacher to tattle to.  

The only toxic behavior that is even arguably a problem that you can't easily solve yourself is roping, and that needs a change to the rules for the rope rather than punishment of players.

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When someone reports, does Blizzard always punish the reported person or do they investigate further?

Did you send him a death threat in response to his comments? If that is not the case, there is nothing you should worry about, except if you have been just as toxic as him in the past with many other players, of course. In that case and if they decide to investige further, they will probably send you just a warning through an email, but nothing more. All depends on your comment history on Battle.net.

I once received a warning (via email) from Blizzard a long time ago. After playing some games of Heroes of the Storm, I started making stupid dick jokes on chat during a match, but without trying to offend any particular teammates and playing normally. We won (I remember playing with Illidan, who was very OP at that time), but some asshole still reported me. Seems like he or she did not share my sense of humor. :P

It is like these people have no family, friends or whatever and aren't used to innocent jokes like that on a daily basis. But yeah, I know, this is the internet after all.

We need a report button for Ropers.

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We need a report button for Ropers.

That would be very hard to implement and extremely abuseable by salty players. How do you know your opponent is not a very slow guy who just needs every second of their turns to play their cards or plan turns ahead? Or how do you know if your opponent is just super busy doing other stuff while playing Hearthstone?

Im lucky. Never had a friend request become idle threats, always an actual request. Ive sent my fair share of requests after a particularly good game. BTW im always happy to make new friends so add me if you like

I assume you're an adult, just move on? 

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I assume you're an adult, just move on? 

 I am an adult and I did not get my feelings hurt if that is what you implied. I was just curious on how reporting in HS works because it is a new feature and had an encounter with a salty player who said he would report me. Even so, I am not afraid or worried about it because I did nothing wrong. Again, just curious.

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Did you send him a death threat in response to his comments?

 

 No.

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Im lucky. Never had a friend request become idle threats, always an actual request. Ive sent my fair share of requests after a particularly good game. BTW im always happy to make new friends so add me if you like

 

You are not lucky, just new to the game

Learned my lesson years ago when I received friend requests often. 9/10 times it's just raging.
I still receive friend requests after I win a game. I cancel them straight away.

If you want to meet HS friends, better to find them on a forum.

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Report pls all players who created Pre Buffs Patch decks and scamming people.
Because this decks is not Pre patch all of this deks was deleted by patch... some deks lose 30% cards and some loose 99.9% cards on patch and why this Prepatch deck?

From the syntax of your post, I can presume that English is not your native language... and from that, I can further conclude that you don't understand how the patch naming process works.

You need someone to translate better for you, rather than digging up a nearly 2 year old post (which was about banning players IN GAME, not here on Hearthpwn) and totally making a fool of yourself.