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Then I stopped trying.
You can say that the first time you get an abandon because the internet was being trash an incident. 100%. But you queueing right after and getting the second abandon was your choice of taking the risky to play the same day knowing the internet was underperforming.
In the end, it's a multiplayer team x team zero sum game. And when your team loses because someone dc'ed, it kinda sucks. Low Priority is a weird form of punishment, but if your Behavior is really 12.000 most of the time, you probably got one must win game punishment. People with lower behavior score, or that abandon more often and got sent to LP constantly, they got 3, 5 or even more win requirements.
I agree with you that helping your son was way more important, and I know that most teams would not respect a pause because, well, it's the internet and as I mentioned, it's a Zero Sum game and someone has to lose for someone to win, and that brings the worst in people. But the punishment exists because some people abuse, extremely hard, both the communications and abandoning games.
I actually praise your effort in the well written post, it's more than a rant. I can give you only one advice, that would be "try to create buffers" so this doesn't happen again. For example, if you see your internet is bad, avoid queuing, specially after an abandon - yeah, I know, it sucks, but your other option is try to have some sort of back up internet. I have my phone ready to connect to the PC and share the internet when my main internet fails, and that usually saves me. Also, if you get an abandon on Ranked, try playing some unranked games, this way it "clears" you, so to speak. Those buffers I mentioned really help.
Anyway, good luck in your games, hope this doesn't happen again.
Sometimes internet conks out and then comes back normal for the rest of the day. You can't say that if someone's internet conks out for one time in a day that he can't try again later. What if it conks out again tomorrow and he tries again? There's no way of knowing. Your internet could go out twice in a day even if it hasn't gone down once in 10 years.
Anyways as a reply to OP what's your behavior score now? Please update this thread if you find it again soon.
As soon as you prove your issues bieng fixed you can go out of there and keep playing.
Based on how it was in there...I think they just assume that most never make it out.
I was lucky...I got matched up opposite one team with a blatant feeder and another with at least 3 folks who were almost certainly new, and not really trying to hard to learn.
So Valve punishes everyone the same. If they were able to confirm who was leaving intentionally I'm sure the punishment would be harsher. As it was, they gave you at least 1, if not 2 chances to not have any more issues.
But then it was 3 strikes and you're out. For a while anyhow.
If you have any specific ideas for how the system might be made better, I'm happy to hear them. In the meantime, consider that the wait time for LPQ matches is long because few people are in it, which means the system is mostly working.
And if you don't have any more issues, hopefully this will be the last time you end up there. (in 10 years of DotA I've only been sent to the LPQ once myself)
They don't need to know the reason. The only thing that has meaning is that you systematically disconnect from games ruining it for 9 other people who spent about hour of their life for it.
So they quarantine you untill they are sure you fixed the issue and no longer ruin games.
That's it. It's not to make you suffer. It's to improve the overall community quality. At least in theory
And those matches are not just for solving your issue but also a test that shows that you solved whatever forced you to ruin matches.