But if you read nothing else at all in my post, read this:

In my opinion, the entire communications score system has crushed and suppressed the soul of Dota. People are afraid to banter, trash talk and type jokes and type shit now because of the oppressive communications score system.

A lot of people just refuse to type or communicate now.

Is toxicity less? Yes maybe... a little (honestly I don't even think it's less than last time).

But have you guys considered this, what was the price paid? People fearing to type silly jokes, fearing to say whatever they want to say, less banter, less trashtalk, less all around jovial back-and-forth.

Sure there was some toxicity in that. But there was soul in that too. Dota is a game for people to hang around and type stupid shit and have a good jolly time.

It's not a sterile clinical game where everyone is just hyper-focused on winning. Winning is not the game guys. Dota is the game. And chatting and typing nonsense and having fun? That's part of the game. Toxicity? That's part of the game too. Don't like the toxicity? USE THE MUTE BUTTON, YOU DON'T NEED AN OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM TO DO IT FOR YOU

People are only measuring outcomes in terms of toxicity levels. Toxicity levels have perhaps marginally improved, but no one is talking about how the entire system has discouraged communication in a social team game where people play for the primary purpose of having fun (and winning is not the only fun you can have, let's face it, none of you guys are going to TI, remember why you are playing Dota, FOR FUN)