This reminds me of how games (coughLeagueOfLegendscough) match me up with a player that I literally just reported for harassment, griefing etc. in the previous match. Like, there weren't any other possible players to match me with out of the many thousands? I don't mind waiting a few more seconds to match up with someone else!
I'm getting a lot of responses as if I expect the player to be totally blocked from matching with me, but that's not really what I mean. Even a basic "temporary match score reduction" would work. I would also expect a cooldown system where the reduction caused by reporting no longer applies. Arguing against the idea "because it creates a prisoner's island" misses the subtlety of a well-thought-out implementation where reporting simply lowers the matchup "rank" for a while, and serial-false-reporters have their reports basically nullified/ignored.
I'm getting a lot of responses as if I expect the player to be totally blocked from matching with me, but that's not really what I mean. Even a basic "temporary match score reduction" would work. I would also expect a cooldown system where the reduction caused by reporting no longer applies. Arguing against the idea "because it creates a prisoner's island" misses the subtlety of a well-thought-out implementation where reporting simply lowers the matchup "rank" for a while, and serial-false-reporters have their reports basically nullified/ignored.