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Reviewers work from logs, categories and records - give them all three inside the first 24-48 hours and your report enters the queue ranked; give them anger and it enters the spam pile.
Step one is capture. Screenshot the chat or save the clip with the match timestamp visible, and note the match ID and the exact account name including clan tag or discriminator. Logs expire; your capture is the copy that survives.
Step two is location. File in the game where the abuse happened, on the account where it happened. Each title runs a separate queue with separate staff, and the identity behind an alt is not shared between games without a formal anti-abuse agreement.
Step three is category. Abusive chat for slurs, griefing for objective sabotage, cheating or evasion for the smurf. A wrong category is the most common quiet rejection - the reviewer looks for griefing in a chat ticket, finds none, and closes it.
On narrow screens, swipe or scroll the plate sideways.
Step four is the line. One sentence: what was done, when, and to whom. 'Keep-bushed our spawn three times in the second half, clip attached' is actionable; a paragraph of feelings is not.
Step five is restraint. File once. Duplicates and team pile-ons are scored as report spam, and 3-5 abusive reports inside a rolling 24-72 hour window will mute the senders while the target walks.
Step six is follow-up. Human review lands inside 24-72 hours, and the appeal window runs 7-14 days after action - if the case stalls or closes with nothing, that window is where the forgotten clip goes. What each outcome costs the reported player is itemised on /troll-punishments-explained.
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