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The Overwatch will be judge and jury over reports of bad behaviour

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Be careful if you decide to turn into aDota 2bully because Valve have added a community-based review system to help them govern the game. The “Overwatch” system will send reports and replays of negative behaviour to upstanding community members, who’ll cast a verdict on the player responsible.

Here’s what the reporting system looks like. It seems quite straight-forward.

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Reviewers can’t just drop a guilty verdict across the board and get back to the game. As Valvenotes: “Reviewers will earn an accuracy score for their efforts, and those who falsely convict will receive a lower score, eventually losing the ability to participate in Overwatch at all. To gather a pool of reliable reviewers, we’ll be enabling a growing number of accounts for participation over the next week or so.”

Another Valve game,Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, already has a similar system in place, so I guess it’s doing a good enough job for them to port it over to Dota 2.

I think they should do something similar for good behaviour. After every game of Overwatch (the game, not this), I go out of my way to thank people for the match. I’ve never once received a card in the mail about how I made someone’s day with my chivalry. I would like to know that I’m a good boy.