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Silent reporting and a more peaceful environment

Meta Phyton·5/19/2016, 10:34:45 PM·7 votes·674 views

If reporting multiple times does not increase any probability in our favour, could reporting silently be just as effective at getting results on one hand, but also play a part in lessening the angst felt by many of us on account of this kind of chat-post repeatedly showing up?

It's some kind of negative feeling to me, to see "report annie" or "report teemo" or something else appear in my chat window on a daily basis. To me it seems like this achieves nothing additional for the intended goal, and it only serves as a way for people to spread their misery to others.

We need to take self-responsibility and stop our own misery from spreading before it leaves our fingers and shows up in the chat window.

If we keep silent about reporting, and instead just perform that as an after-chat thing without bringing it up in the match as a complaint, then LoL would become a much more enjoyable atmosphere.

There's no reason at all why others need to be told to report someone, since it's been stated numerously that this does not increase the probabiliy of them recieving any kind of punishment.

Although with millions of players, perhaps this kind of thing needs some kind of attention-grabber in the LoL clent itself?

It would be valueable I reckon, if people could be rewarded somehow for taking a little mini course on why they do not need to type "report x", and if they could be explained to, why not doing this may benefit the community that they're in.

^ Just my idea for the day, since I like to come up with little ways now and then to make this community into a better place, according to my best knowledge - since this game is very enjoyable to me, and I would love to see it made even more agreeable.

11 Comments

scazzman5/19/2016, 11:12:33 PM1 votes

In my opinion"silent reporting" is just as bad. Because it leads to paranoia which leads to escalated toxicity

AutumnTea5/20/2016, 12:20:59 AM1 votes

I think you should be allowed to state who you are reporting, if you chose to do so. I think you should not be allowed to fish for reports. Reports should be something personal.

Report fishing is backhanded flame and blame and sometimes it goes all overboard. Just yesterday I had an a player in my team who wasn't particularly strong. He was silent the whole game. Just as we lost someone wrote in [ALL] chat: "Report XY for hatespeech and racism."

WTF

Lothàrs Edge5/20/2016, 3:15:18 PM1 votes

You're asking for too much from humanity.

If people are mad, the average person is going to make it really obvious. There can be no reasoning with people who are unreasonable.

Dispelle5/23/2016, 2:08:59 AM1 votes

I usually do the silent reporting thing anyway, for 3 reasons:

  1. One report has the same effect as 9.
  2. I don't want to open myself up to the risk of retaliatory reports and possible punishment.
  3. I don't want to tilt others, and saying the word "report" can do that. Yes, just saying the word.

I figure I can see what's going on and report the troublemaker on my own.

scazzman5/24/2016, 3:21:45 AM1 votes

Because if you do it silently. They may panic if they see you ignoring them and and think you mute them. Because they assume you're reporting them as well. this usually leads to them trying to talk themselves out of it. resulting in more excess typing and if they dont get a response they will just think you're being passive aggressive and potentially troll