While I heard that the "toxicity" issue in Overwatch was reportedly apolitical at least initially and tends to revolve around things such as character selection, I was wondering if any regressive style moderation practices they implemented allegedly in response to this made things worse?
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They gave into the screaming and actually toxic fans by enforcing meta picks as an actual requirement instead of just letting the community govern itself. Even going as far as to famously ban a guy for picking Torb on attack because it was against the meta, despite it being his best character and him doing quite well with it.
That transcends moderation, and goes right into injecting it into the community directly.
I heard about this, and that the mod abuse was alleged to have been motivated by political reasons.
I mean, its Blizzard so there is no doubt about it.
But proving mod abuse like that is always shaky at best, and when you have no need to do so because there is overt retarded actions they outright showed you its not needed to waste time thinking on it.
Its Blizzard, always assume the mods are limp wristed Leftists. In my experience in WoW at least half were women, and in 2021 its probably 100% women with 3/4th of that being "women." Which means there is zero expectation you should have of fairness or objectivity.