I would like to propose an idea that a lot of people will not agree with, but just hear me out and my rationalization for believing this.
To me, it seems like a person who continually and repeatedly does something that ends with them dying, regardless of whether or not it was their intention, should consider as either intentionally feeding or literally insane.
My reason for this is because normally, when you do something like touch hot water or go outside on a sunny without sunscreen, you would either learn from your mistakes and do something different, or you would be regarded by everyone else as being insane.
Behavior in a video game should be considered the same. If a person does something over and over that results in their death, for example, pushing their lane too far without warding and then getting ganked, then it seems to me that if this person did not learn from their mistake (especially when told by their team what it is they did wrong) then we should consider this either as intentional feeding or insanity.
Yes I do mean insanity, which by according to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Obviously I am not a psychologist so I am not going to pretend that what I am suggesting is how the human brain functions so I would love to hear from other people regarding this subject on what they think about this kind of irrational behavior.
The Intentional Feeding report has probably become outdated. A year ago, it was more common for players to go 0-30, just spawning and running into enemy players over and over again for the entire game. These days, players just attribute a bad game as intentional feeding which is completely inappropriate.
Just because a player goes 0-5 or 0-10 doesn't necessarily mean the player is 'intentionally feeding.' Even if a player does the same mistake twice, it doesn't suddenly equate to intentional feeding. The player behavior team hasn't had time to re-visit this issue, but we're definitely aware that report categories need some work.
Intentional Feeding
To me, it seems like a person who continually and repeatedly does something that ends with them dying, regardless of whether or not it was their intention, should consider as either intentionally feeding or literally insane.
My reason for this is because normally, when you do something like touch hot water or go outside on a sunny without sunscreen, you would either learn from your mistakes and do something different, or you would be regarded by everyone else as being insane.
Behavior in a video game should be considered the same. If a person does something over and over that results in their death, for example, pushing their lane too far without warding and then getting ganked, then it seems to me that if this person did not learn from their mistake (especially when told by their team what it is they did wrong) then we should consider this either as intentional feeding or insanity.
Yes I do mean insanity, which by according to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Obviously I am not a psychologist so I am not going to pretend that what I am suggesting is how the human brain functions so I would love to hear from other people regarding this subject on what they think about this kind of irrational behavior.
Just because a player goes 0-5 or 0-10 doesn't necessarily mean the player is 'intentionally feeding.' Even if a player does the same mistake twice, it doesn't suddenly equate to intentional feeding. The player behavior team hasn't had time to re-visit this issue, but we're definitely aware that report categories need some work.