A System to Encourage a Better Community
Its hard to come up with what to call this concept system I will talk about, at first I thought about calling it a new reform system, and even though my ideas will portray this to a point it does not at all have this as the central focus. Big portions I want to deal with is trying to remove anonymous harassment (this happens within the boards) and reduce the amount of toxic trolls; also try to set up a system that does not give what toxic trolls want (things like Leaver Buster, how it is currently set up, rewards toxic trolls to frustrate players to keep them in un-fun games longer while others run down mid with teleport ghost and constantly intentionally feed). That is the negative side, I also want to introduce reward system for players that other players found enjoyable to be in a game with or against.
Any questions, comments, or concern then feel free to post in the comments section. If you want to add on to anything then also feel free to comment in the comment sections with your ideas.
Gameplay System:
Let's start with the post game lobby:
The honour system will be no more and replaced with a Positive Token system; same person to same person can give out one Positive Token to that person a month, or 28 days specifically. So you grant out Positive Tokens to players you found, well... positive, a good attitude, friendly, worked well with you or the team, etc you can think of the reasons to why you would give someone a Positive Token. There will be unique rewards you can receive from Positive Tokens, talk about those later.
The report system will be combined with a Negative Token system, Negative Tokens do not take away Positive Tokens just to clarify, a Negative Token is applied immediately and the user can see his total Positive Tokens and Negative Tokens in his profile section. Upon reaching a certain threshold of Negative Tokens ABOVE your total Positive Tokens (let us say 25 Negative Tokens above Positive Tokens) you will receive a Black Flag which everyone can see.
Should add there is no negative attributes to players until they reach a Black Flag status, which in theory should appropriately indicate that a Black Flag user is "toxic" (I am using a vague term like Toxic since a lot of you should know what this would entail).
Black Flag: A user with a Black Flag will receive a 12 hours punishment, and cannot enter any match-made games, if they receive an AFK (Away From Keyboard) or Leave from a game. While non-premade players on the team with a Black Flag user do not receive any punishment for Leaving or AFKing with a Black Flag user in their game (so if a Black Flag user wants to toxic troll or intentionally feed, then the other users do not have to waste their time and not get punished for it, only the Black Flag user gets punished if they do something worth being punished for; only non-premades get benefits, if you queue up with a Black Flag user then you should know the risks of doing so). Leaving/AFK penalties will only grant 4 Negative Tokens automatically, you will not receive any kind of other penalties or LP/elo loss, you can get a maximum of 13 Negative Tokens if the players of that game report you if they think you intentionally left (you will lose LP/elo if your team loses, gain LP/elo of your team wins). Black Flag users if they leave/AFK, besides gaining a 12 hours restriction before you can queue for another match-made game, wins will not grant you LP and losses increase the loss LP by 50% for ranked matches (remember this only happens when you receive an AFK/Leave with a Black Flag).
If you receive a negative KDA (Kills, Deaths, and Assists) and not just KD (Kills and Deaths), with a Black Flag, you will receive a feeder penalty at the end of the game being unable to queue up for a match-made game for the next 6 hours and losses grant you 50% increase loss of LP/elo for solo/duo ranked matches. If you go 0/10/10 this will be a neutral KDA and will not receive a feeder penalty, since it can mean you are a sacrificial pin-cushion and your team can still win fights with your sacrifice, but the point is that if you are getting a bunch of assists and dying then it will assume you are at least trying to play the game and participating in fights, the system is just to try to punish intentional feeders. Without a Black Flag you just gain 4 Negative Tokens automatically if you having a negative KDA, you can get more Negative Tokens if the players of the game report you, up to 13 total.
Reward System: Stickers and Stamps! So there will be a My Scrapbook in your profile that anyone can few and see your collection, every 10 Positive Tokens allows you to purchase a Sticker (shiny, sparkly, and/or glittery) or Stamp (just art, but with a unique shape, border, and/or size) and you can set up your favourite Sticker or Stamp as your Summoner Icon if you so please (you will see current Positive Tokens and total Positive Tokens, current for the shop, total for everything else)! As well arrange and re-arrange the Stickers and Stamps in your scrapbook how ever you like, whenever you like, creative people can make art with art, or you can just organize it, or just place Stickers and Stamps at random!
If you have a Black Flag then you are banned from the Sticker/Stamp shop as long as your Black Flag remains on you. To remove a Black Flag you have to have at least +1 more Positive Tokens over Negative Tokens, or if you have a Black Flag for 28 days then a Rioter will review you for the next few hours of your behaviour of the previous 28 days, and if he/she redeems you have improved your behaviour you will gain a clean slate status and all your Tokens, positive and negative, will be set to zero with your Black Flag lifted off of you.
Friendly Giving: If you give a mystery skin to a random user you gain +5 bonus Positive Tokens, if your Negative Tokens are greater than your Positive Tokens then you cannot get Positive Tokens from doing this random act of kindness. If you Mystery Gift your friends you gain only +1 bonus Positive Token
For those with a lot of IP, you can purchase a mystery Summoner Icon OR a mystery chroma pack OR mystery Ward Skin with either 10,000 IP or 250 RP which will grant +5 Positive Tokens to randoms and +1 Positive Tokens to friends; again for users that have equal or greater Positive Tokens over Negative Tokens.
For those that purchase a Battle Boost on Howling Abyss will gain an additional +5 Positive Tokens, again cannot gain Positive Tokens in this way if your Negative Tokens are greater than your Positive Tokens.
This is to entirely reward friendliness and kindness through the act of giving.
Boards System:
Upvotes and Downvotes will be removed, and there will be no indication of this outside the post.
The new system will be Favourites and Dislike Comments, will be in the bottom right of the main post, the numbers are hidden until a user performs an action (prevents sheeping). Dislike Comments are hidden from everyone but the poster and Rioters, this prevent anonymous disliking, so if someone is toxic trolling someone or harassing someone then those people can be punished. And they are dislike comments to prevent mindless disliking, even though to everyone but the poster its really just a number that is off to the side rather than in the forefront saying how many did not like the post while favourites show how many like the post. Favourites will also be displayed in a section on user profiles on the boards and can spread word of certain posts in an additional way, on top of current ways.
Posters will also be allowed to remove inappropriate or s*** talking comments on their posts if they so choose to do so, which allows posters to be allowed to moderate their own posts.
Again, hidden favourites and dislikes until an action is performed is so that individuals can decide whether they want to like, be neutral, or dislike a post on their own accord without the influence of others' decision making; which is what sheeping it, it is blindly following someone or something either consciously or subconsciously.
Hope you appreciate my efforts in trying to improve in game and on the boards experience!
P.S. This system removes all current punishing, chat restrictions will not be a thing since they do not resolve anything and the mute button exists for a reason. The things that remain will be manual suspensions and bans given out directly from a Rioter and tribunal. All automatic functions can only occur to users with Black Flags, besides getting Negative Tokens for intentionally feeding or receiving an AFK/Leave. Also "Other" will be a report option when giving someone a Negative Token, along side the current options.
