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The Best Way To Fix This Toxic Community

ravenswolfy·1/22/2015, 12:38:35 AM·7 votes·3,461 views

Its widely known that League of Legends has by far the most toxic gaming community out of all the online games. Most of this seems to stem from people who rage wildly at teammates poor performance, dysfunctional communication, or troll-like behavior. This leads to mass reporting which could be legitimate or not. So I propose a solution to encourage better behavior and more teamwork.

  1. Change the report system to only report for AFKs, Intentional Feeding/griefing and Inappropriate Names.
  2. Enable Chat Filters by default and a warning that disabling Chat Filters may result in possible exposure to unfiltered/uncensored user generated content.
  3. Auto suppress/mute spamming, and make it aware that the Mute feature is available.
  4. Create Incentives/Achievements for players based on good behavior and games won. a. What this means is that Riot could give away a vaulted skin and/or RP to players who have played X number of games and didn’t AFK. b. RP/ vaulted skin rewarded for players who didn’t generate any credible reports in a certain number of games c. RP/ vaulted skin/ mystery skin for players who won consecutive number of games of normal/draft/team builder/aram/dominion/ranked. d. Revamp honor system. If a player received an honor ribbon or have X number of honor obtained get an honorary skin at end of season. This would have to be a decent quality skin to provide incentive in either being a team player, friendly, helpful or an honorable opponent. e. Create an achievement tracker and reward system for players who pursue to master a single champion at a time. i. Could be a player would earn a special skin/RP for getting 500 wins in ranked with a single champion… something along those lines etc.
  5. If players have less than 1% leave rate at end of season, have an award. Like an icon/special ward skin or RP
  6. Have a new leave/mercy system. If a player has to leave in a middle of a match, that team can vote to end the game early and see if the other team would show mercy; allowing the other team to have a less LP penalty in ranked games. The mercy forgiving team would get automatic honor points in addition to any honor allotments at end of game.
  7. Change the ban system to only ban for severe chronic AFKing, severe intentional feeding. Game suspension and forced name change for inappropriate named summoners on first offense, future offenses result in possible ban.
  8. Allow more refund points to players after certain number of purchases and end of season.
  9. Allow rune pages to be edited during champion select.
  10. More Riot to player interaction on message boards/reddit in all categories.
  11. Better customer support.

edit: Changed number 1 to include griefing.

42 Comments

Yulen Xoshxius1/22/2015, 4:53:32 AM4 votes

Question on number 1: Why not allow us to report for severe behaviour?

GigglesO1/22/2015, 12:59:13 AM2 votes

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  1. Allow rune pages to be edited during champion select.

No, there is no time or reason to modify your rune page before a game starts unless you have only the default 2-3 rune pages. I have 13 rune pages, and I am going to buy four more (with IP) when the sale starts tomorrow. I already have all the rune pages I need to just select from without modifying them. You should already know what champion pool you play and what runes you need for a specific game.

This is you being too damn cheap to solve your own problem.

BTW I have unlocked all of the runes, without IP boosts, you can too.

The purpose of runes is to generically buff your champion, it isn't to hand tailor your champion for each game. From an efficency standpoint in general you would use almost exactly the same 5-6 pages anyways. Which is two for each role, mage, tank and adc... bruisers being a combination of two of the aforementioned.

CaptanKrushnKill1/22/2015, 12:48:55 AM2 votes

Here's the solution. Baddies/prisoner's island.

Take the people with negative KDAs, those who don't buy wards, those whose lanes are first to fall, those who focus people with high armor/MR values, those who receive no contribution gold for killing wards and objectives, and force them to play in Baddies Island until they have a history of say 50-75 matches, with a positive score.

Make a "/mute all" button. Any negative, afk, verbal abuse, feeding, refusing to communicate report wipes out your last 10 matches worth of points.

Drunk Rummate2/9/2015, 6:15:30 PM2 votes

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Its widely known that League of Legends has by far the most toxic gaming community out of all the online games.

Uhh I disagree. A lot people say that about a lot of games. LoL is really no worse than any other mainstream game. Lyte released information that 95% of people received the reward skin for not being chat banned or restricted during all of 2014. Seems like our community is pretty decent from that perspective.

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Change the report system to only report for AFKs, Intentional Feeding/griefing and Inappropriate Names.

And why not negative attitude, insults or offensive language?

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Enable Chat Filters by default and a warning that disabling Chat Filters may result in possible exposure to unfiltered/uncensored user generated content.

There's already a mature language filter that's automatically enabled. Auto muting everyone would take away from the teamwork aspect that you seem to want to encourage right now.

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Auto suppress/mute spamming, and make it aware that the Mute feature is available.

Not sure what you're implying here really. There are people that don't know the mute feature exists? Couldn't you just add a tool in the tutorial, or provide a message as a reminder after reporting someone for a chat related behavior?

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Create Incentives/Achievements for players based on good behavior and games won.

They're already doing this. I've received two 4-game IP boosts and a free skin in the last several months for good behavior.

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Have a new leave/mercy system. If a player has to leave in a middle of a match, that team can vote to end the game early and see if the other team would show mercy; allowing the other team to have a less LP penalty in ranked games. The mercy forgiving team would get automatic honor points in addition to any honor allotments at end of game.

The main issue with a system like this is potential for abuse. I don't see why a mercy team should be getting extra rewards for winning the game faster than 20 minutes either, they're already getting full LP for the win, yes? Unless you would only give them partial LP, in which case there aren't many people who would go through with that unless you were giving tangible rewards like RP which I would disagree with.

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Allow more refund points to players after certain number of purchases and end of season.

I'd really like that as someone who has spent a lot of money on the game, but not really sure how it relates to the topic.

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Allow rune pages to be edited during champion select.

This defeats the purpose of buying new rune pages. It would invalidate a lot of RP/IP spent for a lot of people and make them all very upset. So no.

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More Riot to player interaction on message boards/reddit in all categories. Better customer support.

Sure, those are never bad things. Riot is already pretty good with them other than a few edge cases but that doesn't mean they can't improve.

Aww Kat1/22/2015, 12:59:38 AM1 votes

pretty well put together i agree 100%

Dangerous Man2/9/2015, 3:20:32 AM1 votes

#5 would make me get screwed over, 1%? How do you not leave? Im so used to "Oh I gotta pee" and closing the game. Why is it such a big deal here? Ive won 3v5 games and 4v5 games. Rito has to make a leaverbuster automated. In Other games, You can just leave when you want :C

SmokingPuffin2/9/2015, 6:07:16 PM1 votes

You really need to comment on why you removed all those other report categories.

In particular, you identify raging as a serious issue, and then propose no new tools for combating raging. In fact, you removed some -- no more reporting for raging, no more bans for raging.

Beast of Legends1/22/2015, 4:47:22 AM1 votes

Reward people who report people that get a tempban or ban.

Similar to tribunal bonuses, but more frequent and doesn't require much time.

balrog981/17/2016, 7:00:30 PM

I think these are the ways to fix toxicity:

  1. Make players receive almost same ip and same xp for win and lose (for example you get for a 25 min game 115 ip for lose and 130 for win and 120 xp for both). 2.Disable ranked rewards for divisions (people play ranked only to win because higher division gives higher reward and they became to hate each other because someone being outplayed by more skilled player).Division will serve to separate players by their skill level and not to serve to give free skins etc. 3.Make bronze and silver clear of trolls,afk-ers,feeders,flamers same rules for griefing for every division. 4.Make system that replace leaver/AFK-er with another player who can select in queue do he want to play in game with leaver/AFK or start new game so if player have to leave game can be replaced by another.This player takes same champion,average your team level and gold.But player who want to join game with leaver can see what champion leaver has or select new champ according to leaver's role. 5.Give free skins to players who were never reported for toxicity or rarely because there will always exist trolls who want to false report and make system punish false reporters as much as trolls. 6.If nothing helps then remove ranked and make all players be same division as i think ranked caused most of toxicity because players here play to win at all costs what is imposibble in reality to always win cause you'll met more skilled players or they'll have better built team composition but other time your team so winning and losing is not only skill and having knowlegle how to build,counter but its luck most of time. 7.Give reward to players who sucessfully carried game with unskilled in their team and won and make other players in team can gift freely those players with skins,champs,rune page etc not only honor them because being able to solo carry team deserves reward. 8.Make system that detects if player have another account on higher elo, so if he make another low level account make matchmaking match him with another players same skill so he can't ruin game for new players and for lower division players.No free win or getting stomped. 9.Add for example as new game mode "zombies rush" where you play coop with your team and zombies spawn into waves and you have to defend your turrets and nexus if your team survive all lanes then you win. 10.Make new game mode like ARAM but with infinite gold and level 18 to start all players so teamfights erupt on full build as soon as game start.This will make more fun and will discourage afk-ers because whole team is there needed to achieve victory or at least be well played. 11.Make system that players can vote kick for troll,feeder,flamer who'll be replaced with new player with average level,gold of your team with same champ he selected or he can pick another champ if champ they had is trollpick for their role,but this option can be abused by trolls also its good and in same way bad option. 12.Make same gold reward for kill/assist 200 gold so players can't flame each one for ks but it will also force botlane especially and other players to more play safe.