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Waaahhh!!! People are swordlining/AFKing the worst mode in the game!!! BAN THEM!!!
Waaaahhhh!!!!! People are saying bad words in chat and on mic!!! BAN THEM!!!
WAAAAHHHHH!!!! People are betraying the team!!! BAN THEM!!!!!
WAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! People are quitting the match!! BAN THEM!!!!
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!1!! Someone did something I don't like!!! BAN THEM!!!1!
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Nobody is left unbanned in matchmaking except me!! BAN ME!!!!
I preferred it back on the 360 when every match was infested with 12 year olds screaming obscenities the entire match and getting into arguments with people 3x their age.
Nowadays it's just endless wet tissues crying to get people banned for whatever minor infraction they can conjure up because it results in a minor inconvenience.
What inconvenience? You lose the match? Wow, how horrible, at least you STILL GET XP regardless. Not like back in Halo 3 where you only earn 1 single XP point PER MATCH and ONLY if you are on the winning team.
Boo hoo your team lost a match because it was full of dumb asses, congratulations! WELCOME TO ONLINE MATCHMAKING.
No wonder nobody barely talks on mic or in chat, there's no point because all gaming has turned into is following whatever stupid metagame has developed mindlessly ad nausea while making sure not to inconvenience anyone in any way, instead of just PLAYING THE GAME.
Once you find the gamertag you were looking for you can right-click their name and click report to open up another small window. Here you will find a few drop-down options pertaining to different types of disruptive behaviours (cheating, spam, harassment etc).
What you describe sounds like it would come under unsportsmanlike behaviour. Don't forget to specify by leaving a brief description of your own before hitting submit. Happy reporting.
People who do this deserve to get banned. I bet you would be begging for someone to drop the banhammer if someone found an invincibility cheat.
No duh I'd be in favor of someone using an invincibility CHEAT getting banned.
Someone just being a prick? Whatever, that's part of online matchmaking.
Intentionally teamkilling, AFKing, and quitting matches early are all harmful to the experience for other players. It's the same reason you ban cheating.
I quoted very specific parts of your post:
All of these with the exception of an accidental teamkill are choices a player can make that harm the experience of other players.
If 100% of people playing the game were AFKing the game would not be playable.
If 100% of people playing the game spent the whole match teamkilling the game would not be playable.
If 100% of people playing the game quit matches the game would not be playable.
It's not rocket science.
Bungie most likely did not expect power weapons to be distributed equally or spawnkilling to never happen.
Swordlining even if only by luck isn't bannable if every single player in the lobby wants to participate in it. They called it a grey area before because it's not particularly harmful when it happens among a group of willing participants, but realistically you will rarely get all a match of all 8 players who want to do it. What always ends up happening is the player(s) who want to actually play the game mode will be teamkilled until the match ends.
Spawnkilling is unsociable and unsportsmanlike, it is unfair to the enemy team if you keep spawn killing them and it not giving them a chance to get back into the game. Purposely targetting someone is unsociable and unsportsmanlike as you are harassing them and not letting the person play the game. Teabagging is unsociable and unsportsmanlike, if the player being teabagged doesn't like it you are being unsociable and unfair. Not letting teammates that ask for a weapon or vehicle take that is unsociable and unsportsmanlike as you are not being sociable to them nor are you being fair to them as they asked for them nicely. Bungie hasn't ran the show in almost 8 years, no need to namedrop them.
As to swordlining, I gave the example of both teams that consent specifically. I don't care to debate other scenarios nor the "realism" of the argument as of course it would be unsociable and unsportsmanlike. I'll add that that scenario did happen a copious amount of times so it's not even unrealistic.