Player Moderators?

El micetro·2/19/2020, 8:03:54 PM·1 votes·2,445 views

Hi everyone,

How do you all feel about having player moderators in game? I've always thought this could be a good thing. Every game I have played that had a Riot employee (someone with Riot in their name), there never seems to be toxicity. So maybe.. people will have some decency with player moderators?

I got the idea from RuneScape, i'm not entirely sure what they have the ability to do in RuneScape, other than mute other players for 24 hours (or is it permanent?). And if this idea was implemented into League, do you think they would have the ability to stop toxicity?

Any ideas of what a player moderator would have the ability to do?

Make their reports count as more?
Ability to mute for 1 game?
Give a warning?

Regards, El micetro

3 Comments

Modl Ryden l2/19/2020, 8:26:31 PM1 votes

I supposed Rioters that play regularly do have that kind of influence. I doubt they have the power to ban ON THE SPOT. Reports are made so a team at Riots player support can determine whether or not the offending player should be punished due to multiple offences. Not at the time they commited an offence.

In PVP games, often players get hyper emotional or full of rage becaue they're salty and lost a 1v1, died, or just straight up lost and that makes them spew out nasty things in chat. And for all WE know, as the players in that one game can tell, he was just being salty and mean for that one game. No one is perfect and immune to being salty. Everyone does it. And if you don't then you must have the patience of a saint to be playing this game and not ONCE have said anything mildly passive aggressive in chat.

And unlike MMORPGs where you can hang out with the player moderators, you cannot feasibly do that in a PVP game like League of Legends. There's no time to lounge around the shop when there's Dragon/towers/Baron to be taken. So there's not much a PM could do in league besides being a watchful eye for toxic players. As all player should be doing anyways. So it seems rather moot to include an employee into the game as a means to 'keep the peace' when players should already take it upon themselves to report offending players and let the Rioters and the support team figure out that players punishment when appropriate.

But to answer you question in short. No.

GatekeeperTDS2/19/2020, 11:16:08 PM1 votes

Everyone on a League team has equal standing. You don't want people being jerks to each other, but you don't want a moderator or someone with authority to influence the outcome of a game either. Players have to be allowed to be players and play under the assumption that nobody on their team is the "leader," even unofficially.

As other have said, there are no observers in a League match. There are players, and shit to do. Coaches sit on the sidelines. Umpires don't interfere in the game. Referees are supposed to be invisible.