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The new automatic warn system from reports is stupid

Shadow Scotsman·8/11/2015, 1:25:12 AM·2 votes·525 views

The new system for automaticly warning players of bad behaviour following reports after a match is broken, putting aside the fact that any automatic system will get abused by people who just want to be assholes the system just doesnt work. from what i can tell the second one person reports you for something you get a warning, ive had 4 warning on seperate occasions so far and still no actual punishment, of those 4 only 1 i would honestly agree i deserved, the other 3 were just dumb, 1 match i didnt say anything throughout so i can only guess i telepathicly offended someone, another game 2 of my team left and at the end the enemy team said easy to which i responded, easy? thats why it took you 35 mins to end xD you are so bad, which is hardly a nice thing to say but i hardly think that qualifies as verbal abuse and the third game which made me laugh the most i had to afk half way through for personal reasons and before i left i said sorry to my team before leaving, and i got the warning to watch the way i speak to others again, so someone in that game saw me afk, but decided the real problem was my polite way of telling everyone i had to go.

i dont know how much weight these warning really hold but the fact that ive had 4 without any real punishment makes me think they dont hold much, which just leads to a meaningless report system.

Also on a side note, i dont know if this already exists or not as ive never been punished for bad language but if/when you do get punished and are limited to how much you can say are you shown examples of your bad chat habbits? do you get shown logs of your own chat which were against rules/got you reported becuase if not then that seems like a missed oppertunity, since i doubt the majourity of people are deliberately being assholes when they get reported so surely it would go a long way to solving the problem if you showed them examples of thier own chat so they could understand where the line is.

5 Comments

Deep Terror Nami8/11/2015, 1:42:32 AM2 votes

You only get warnings when you've been reported in a high percentage of your games, and/or many recently. If you're getting lots of warnings then you need to take the hint before it results in punishment.

Live2LetDie8/11/2015, 1:45:01 AM1 votes

Reports == bans, they flag your account for log scan.

Cheeseyoger8/11/2015, 5:36:46 AM1 votes

Yeah the notifications are largely automatic from what I understand, that's why you can get them right away and work on improving your behavior. Actual punishments on the other hand come when Riot has taken in all the evidence they need to reach the verdict that action NEEDS to be taken. They really don't like punishing people under light circumstances or with questionable proof of fault

Mathbalnase8/11/2015, 6:16:45 AM1 votes

A few things to consider:

The warnings are not punishments. The warnings are automatic and immediate to better allow you to connect any possible future punishment to the events of a particular game.

Shadow Scotsman8/11/2015, 3:45:27 PM1 votes

I understand the warning are not themselves punishments and are there to flag behaviour before it gets to the punishment stage, but my point is if the warning system is set up to throw out a warning after 1 or 2 report from disgruntled players then it will devalue the warning, if i had only recived a warning following the times when i had really been out of order then the warning would hold some weight, but getting a warning after not saying anything throughout a game, or getting a warning for a sarcastic comment in retaliation to an enemy being a bad sport just devalues it and highlights just how automatic the system is. currently to me it feels entirely like it automaticly sends a warning out if you recive even 1 report from a player after a game.

i really hope im wrong about how i think its set up. i really hope its just teething problems and that after a few months the system will have a profile of players and be able to check and see out of the past 100 how many reports a player is getting and hand out warning accordingly. instead of it just throwing them out like free candy like it feels currently