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I feel like people aren't reporting as often as they should

ArnoldSchwarzens·12/16/2016, 2:29:45 AM·4 votes·568 views

I wouldn't call myself a flamer but after watching some replays of my games of the last few months I saw how I often made unnecessary passive-aggressive remarks which in hindsight probably were reportable. Never got a chat restriction or anything, not even a notice that my behaviour was somewhat toxic. Which means that the people I harassed probably didn't even bother to report me.

After every game I try to recall who was a great and who was a bad teammate and then I give honors and reports accordingly. I often notice how people just rush out of the post-game lobby to get into the next game or do something else.

I'm pretty sure that purely theoretically, if every player in existence would take the time to report toxic people after their games, we wouldn't have such a big toxicity problem to begin with. Some say that it's the system that is failing but it's probably just the people who are supposed to make it work that make it fail because they are too lazy to make proper use of it.

9 Comments

Vel Existor12/16/2016, 2:34:23 AM1 votes

Problem is also that people just don't care untill it touches them, flames them, ruins THEIR game. If they win, they likely will forget to report you flaming them early game. And if they lose, they will always remember about your flame, even more to say - they will accept your helpful advice and positive tone as trolling or negative attitude, responding to something like "bro, try to freeze lane so I can gank you" with stuff like "report my noob jungler flamer and never ganks"

bad arcade kitty12/16/2016, 2:36:17 AM1 votes

you literally want to punish yourself for some silly rules honestly believing that "passive-aggressive" comments in a video game are somehow something very bad... what a mentality people have nowadays

also you likely were reported but unless you use tabooed words it can take a while till some of those reports send you to the punish bot

xevi12/16/2016, 2:37:35 AM1 votes

You can only report in the post game chat so people forget and quickly move on to the next game. If you could report in champion select or even in-game y tabbing and hovering, reports will probably increase.

KVbqbFsC8e12/16/2016, 2:46:44 AM1 votes

Well, if they aren't its a very good thing given Riot and this community's absurd definition of what can be considered "toxicity".

MagicFlyingLlama12/16/2016, 2:58:53 AM1 votes

It does entirely depend on this, and the end result is some kid who spews pathetic whiny insults eventually gets reported by someone who would rather be playing with mature adults, they get wrecked. And then they come and cry on the forums about their undeserved ban, show the hilarious chat logs of themselves being a brat, and provide entertainment.

None of the other bratty kids learn from this and go on to do exactly the same thing. And this is why trying to reduce toxicity via punishment is utterly futile.

Rustling Bush12/16/2016, 4:51:32 AM1 votes

i don't know about that, seems to me like the opposite. Their is at-least that one person that says "report [x]" because they ended up feeding or something, from what i heard the "unskilled player" option was just a their to be a pseudo pill

Strawberrycocoa12/16/2016, 4:54:13 AM1 votes

The Report Weight mechanic may be stopping people from reporting every minor thing?

grug12/16/2016, 5:03:29 AM1 votes

reporting is really petty but i still report people who do that extreme shit ie telling people to commit suicide and stuff like that as well as blatant account sharers (with evidence in the logs)

Rakvir12/18/2016, 9:16:42 AM1 votes

I think the reason people generally thnk they can get away with unprovoked trolling is because they always see, game after game, people who say they're going to report (or are people simply CALLING for reports) almost exclusively leave the lobby IMMEDIATELY after the 'Victory' or 'Defeat' screen. They would need at least a couple seconds to even do a quick drive-by report so when they instantly leave, well it's pretty obvious they didn't bother to report.