Eliminate Spam Bots

Arc Slayer·Mar 19, 2015·23 votes·1,057 views

There has been an ever growing problem with spam bots in League of Legends. It started off with maybe once a month a random friend add would come, but for me at least, it is now to the point that I'm getting 1-3 daily. This could be easily (I suppose depending on how the chat system was implemented, it could be difficult) fixed. Really all it needs is certain friend-add restrictions.

This would start with not allowing anything, lets say, below level 3 to add friends.

Obvious Concerns: Now wait, how do I add my friends who got me into this game to my list? Let lower levels still accept friend requests. What about the friends I make in games? Let friends still be added in post-game lobby for level 3 or lower.

This would have a huge impact on spam bots, making everyone ever happy.

I guess the most important part of my post to make this happen: tl;dr: Rito pls.

7 Comments

JubbinautMar 19, 20152 votes

How long do you think it would take to spam co-op matches using a botting program to hit lvl 5?

I figure it's probably about 4 games per account. With a complex enough set-up, you could probably run a team of 5 accounts up to lvl 5 in a matter of a couple hours, before setting them off to spamming.

That's not to say that you don't have a great start to addressing the problem, here. But it's certainly not going to completely eliminate the problem by itself.

Arc SlayerMar 19, 20151 votes

At least they'd have to do more work for it :/. And yeah, I don't know that we could ever TRULY address the problem, but a start would help I think. This at least discourages it. You're absolutely correct though.

JubbinautMar 19, 20151 votes

Honestly, I don't know why they haven't done it already. There's no real loss that I know of, and plenty of benefit in terms of deterrence. And it's pretty standard in MMOs anyway (or at least it was when I was playing WoW).

WeFlyNoLieMar 19, 20151 votes

Its a minor annoyance to me honestly, but that doesn't mean I don't want it to stop happening. I will log in to LoL usually at least once a day and I'd say 5 out of the 7 days of the week I will get 1-3 (Once I had 4) friend requests all from spam bots. In the beginning I used to check and search their names just to see if they were level 1s. They were of course. I don't even bother anymore, I just don't accept friend requests unless I recognize the name from a previous game or if it was one I was expecting.

I've thought about starting a list and adding each name to it when I get a new friend request to submit a ticket to Riot, but I honestly don't want to waste the time.

I know its something Riot really doesn't have a lot of control over, but anything would be appreciated.

SammystormMar 20, 20151 votes

I use to submit tickets for them but I don't bother anymore. I just got more of them.

ArdondMar 20, 20151 votes

yeah I get this problem a lot as well, every time I log on it's "LOLuser12312123213213 wants to be your friend". my god is it obnoxious, I don't want to buy your illegal RP NOW GET OFF LEAGUE.

SammystormMar 20, 20151 votes

Basically just do not add any one who you don't know or you didn't add.