Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
This is especially the case if the rookie is under-preforming by a large margin.
If a person is under-performing, especially by a large margin, that's the matchmaking at fault, not the rookie. The rookie did not ask to be put with players completely out of his league. It is entirely unfair and plainly put rotten to lash out at a person solely because he got put into the wrong match by an automated system, because by doing so, you're projecting your hate towards an inanimate object onto a living person. There is no defense to that. If you do it, you are an arsehole. Full stop.

And if you want to retort claiming that people should learn before stepping into ranked, you are not just an arsehole, but also an idiot. The very point of a ranking system is to rank people in accordance to their skill - no matter where that skill lies, whether you're at the bottom or the top of the barrel. Finding out where you stand, that is the point of letting yourself be ranked. Where exactly you stand has absolutely no bearing on that purpose and if a player is bad, it's the ranking that should tell them, not other players. That's its purpose after all.

And if you now think that the ranking system we have sucks for that purpose, you'd be right - it does. It needs to show everyone's standing and it needs to go into every direction - no more point loss protection at unranked. Moreover, the points you win/gain should solely be decided by your and the enemy teams rating, tiers should not matter at all. An even match should always result in an equal amount of points gained as lost. The system as is sucks and it sucks because they tied rewards to it, thereby giving it a distributional and incentive function as well, which compromise its actual purpose.

If you want to vent your hate, don't do it on the players, do it on the system.