Can someone please explain to me?

EnemyRedBuff·Feb 20, 2018·2 votes·2,128 views

Recieve this for a post i made "From: Riot Games Hello RedAlbanian,

I am removing your post Why is this person in my ranked game? as it does not follow the Universal Rules of the board, it breaks the rule "naming and shaming", the reason why the rule "naming and shaming" is in place is so other players will not harass or witch hunt the accused. Do not do this in the future as further action will be taken.

If you have any questions about this moderation action, don't hesitate to reach out to the Boards Moderation Team via:" What? so that palyers wont be harass or witch hunt the accused? Im pretty sure the accused, ah excuse me, the guilty have ways of blocking that kind of harassment. Oh they are sending em emssages, block, oh they are sending friend requests, ignore. Meanwhile what do we have in terms of retaliation? nothing. we haveto sit there and take the 20 minutes of wasted time over players like this. 20 god damn minutes, bc you know that trolls like this are going to say no at the 15 min mark. SO hey you neckbeard having ass danearytargerean or whatever your stupid name is that sent me this message, try looking into this instead of harassing me.

4 Comments

ChermorgFeb 20, 20183 votes

Hiya. I'd like to answer a few of your questions regarding the Naming and Shaming rule on the boards. First of all, Daenrys really did hit the nail on the head: "so that palyers wont be harass or witch hunt the accused". That is the entire reason for the rule. No player, regardless of if they are accused of wrongdoing, deserves to be harassed by others. While we do not necessarily condone other players' poor behavior, the boards are not the proper avenue to report them for it or start an investigation of it. That is done through the end of game report screen, or in some circumstances in a Support ticket to Riot. This all being said, you didn't even accuse them of wrongdoing - you are merely trying to shame them as a bad player.

Meanwhile what do we have in terms of retaliation?

This is exactly how the system is designed. Riot does not support retaliation, and in fact, retaliating against negative behavior with more negative behavior is grounds for a punishment in game. The concept of "fighting fire with fire" is not a good one - and in fact the other adage used to describe it has a part most people forget: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". It is not acceptable to attempt to shame someone just because you disagree with the matchmaking algorithms placing them in your game. League is a game that is supposed to be welcoming to all players, and this type of behavior is not conducive to an environment where players are able to grow and learn in the community.

If you have any further questions about this please do not hesitate to contact us in the Boards Moderation Discord server, or you can reply here and I will do my best to answer you.

OnlyYouCanHearMeFeb 21, 20181 votes

I actually have a question, Chermorg. Whenever I run across a Name-and-Shame post, I usually report it so that it gets brought to the attention of the mods/advisors, but I'm not actually sure which category I should use, or if it really matters that much. I think I've been using Harassment (as opposed to Offensive, Spam, or Incorrect Board). Is that how we should be handling this?

ChermorgFeb 21, 20181 votes

The category isn't the most important thing. All reports make us look at the post, and naming/shaming is usually one of the more obvious things. When something's reported, if we decide to not delete/edit it, we only do so after looking for any rule violations - regardless of what was selected when reporting :)

AblesCruxMar 13, 20181 votes

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The category isn't the most important thing. All reports make us look at the post, and naming/shaming is usually one of the more obvious things. When something's reported, if we decide to not delete/edit it, we only do so after looking for any rule violations - regardless of what was selected when reporting :)

you forget even your own board members go to far TOU agreement licencing for third party apps and you say it not being abused