Riot, have you considered letting spectators report players?

TheWife2011·8/6/2014, 8:49:20 PM·4 votes·1,030 views

No matter how hard anyone tries to be unbiased in a match, there are just certain situations where emotion is going to get the better of somebody and push them to report somebody. There are circumstances where a player is more likely to report an enemy and also some circumstances where they are more likely to report an ally.

For example, a 4-man premade is more likely to report their solo ally who did not agree with their premeditated plan or is performing poorly instead of reporting the enemy for being toxic to the team.

And another example, a player is more likely to report a 22/0 Yasuo for saying something rude at the end, but otherwise having been quiet the rest of the game, simply because they were frustrated.

If you let spectators report people, they are not mixed up in the emotions of a match and would theoretically be able to report people more accurately and more fairly.

3 Comments

bzhen09158/6/2014, 11:34:54 PM5 votes

That would also basically mean that spectators would need to have access to team chat, which I really am against the idea, since spectators can reveal long term strategies (strategies that are reveal any throughout the game, making the spectator delay useless) to players of the team. Otherwise, spectators usually won't have enough information to determine whether a report is necessary.

TheBadness8/7/2014, 5:25:43 AM4 votes

yeah right.

"Oh i don't like this guy on my team....for no apparent reason at all....let me whisper 20 people on my friends list to come spectate this game and then report him".

Sneak Dog8/6/2014, 9:26:07 PM1 votes

If the 4-man premade reports players who play bad but aren't flaming, their report accuracy goes down and their reports will become irrelevant. You also don't get punished for a single game.

Really, report accuracy and needing to be consistently flaming/raging etc to be punished probably covers all your situations. I do agree it'd be a neat feature, but I don't think it'd add much accuracy to the system.