𝘾𝙇𝙂 SimpleFlips

I was theorizing what Valve could maybe do to help combat hackers and an idea I came up with is: players who refuse to kick their hacking teammates should be given the same punishment as the person who's cheating. Thoughts?

you'd have to gauge why they're refusing to kick which really is a lot more work than on paper

There's a handful of common reasons. They don't want to kick their friend. They care more about winning than a fair game. They don't believe their teammate is cheating (but no one calls a vote kick unless it's really obvious usually)

right but how do you implement that in an algorithm going through each and every case and making that determination is nearly impossible given the playerbases on some games so how exactly do you separate the reasonings

Bans are already delivered by players going through each and every case on a case by case basis. Seeing the context of whether or not someone was queued up with the hacker and was the only one who didn't vote is very doable. It shouldn't be black and white but already peer review

if we're talking about csgo's overwatch system then yeah this system would work a lot better, but not every game has the overwatch system. in other games your heuristics would have to be super fleshed out before anything like this would be able to be put into play