Rainbow Six Siege bans players instantly for using hate speech

Rainbow Six Siege is trying to fight toxic players and the way it is doing this is by banning players who use hate speech reports Gamespot. Players who use hate speech will be banned automatically with the first offense resulting in an automatic 30-minute ban. Players who use hate speech again will be banned for about two hours.

The third offense will carry another two-hour ban. The code of conduct for the game says that people who have three strikes can be banned permanently from the game pending an investigation by Ubisoft. “Fighting against toxicity and cleaning up the Siege environment is a very real and important issue,” Ubisoft said in a post on Twitter.

The auto-ban system is said to be an automated system that replaces words Ubisoft has identified as offensive. “No system is perfect, but it is working as intended in a majority of the cases we’ve been seeing,” the studio wrote on Twitter. “This is not our final update for dealing with toxicity–we will continue to observe and make changes and expansions as needed.”

The dev team behind the game wants to tackle toxic players with a three-prong approach. They want to track negative player behavior, manage those who behave poorly and implement features to encourage these players to change behavior.