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Five behaviours get called 'trolling' in lobby chat, and each is caught by a different tool - picking the right category is the difference between a report that lands and a report that bounces.
The baiter - the classic troll - works in chat: short repetitive lines, a link every few minutes, a message aimed at one player rather than the lobby. His goal is your reply, because the reply is what gets you muted. Chat rate limits of 120-200 characters and one message per 1-2 seconds make his delivery pattern visible in logs before the content is.
The griefer works against the objective, not the keyboard: destroying or blocking objectives, keep-bushing a spawn point two or three times in a row, saving and denying kills in objective modes. Caught, he pays 0-5% of a normal match score and 50-100% of the match XP - in objective modes a larger deterrent than any chat mute.
The thrower is the griefer's ranked cousin: he loses on purpose. The report category sits in the same family - griefing or sabotage - and the evidence is the pattern across the whole match, not one bad fight.
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The smurf is a skill problem wearing a new account. The signals are an account under 30 days old, a linked hardware ID or payment method, an overlapping friends list and identical settings - so the category that catches a ban-evading alt is evasion or cheating, not abusive chat.
The toxic player is the only one of the five whose primary weapon is text. Slurs and walls of text are screened automatically within seconds, and a mute of 10 minutes to 24 hours, paired with a voice block in the same action, is the standard first price.
The ordinary bad game is none of these. A teammate having a rough match builds no record and earns no ticket - and filing one anyway counts toward the 3-5 abusive reports that can mute you inside 24-72 hours. Once you have the right category, the procedure on /how-to-report-a-troll takes it from there.
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