What is Riot doing about Flex Queue?

DeportTheSupport·11/23/2018, 8:10:14 PM·1 votes·1,671 views

What is the protocol behind flex? If you go into the game solo and get matched with a 3 or 4 man queue and they all flame you the entire game why am I getting a chat restriction? I am so confused at how this works, I have resorted to muting my entire team because if you respond at all you get the restriction because you have been reported by 3 or 4 people even if you just asked them to stop. This is the second time i have posted about this, last time i provided screen shots and submitted a trouble ticket.

E; The flame started in champ select when I picked an ADC none of them liked.

E2; Does the bot look at what the three or four people reporting someone said? So regardless of what they do as long as they have more reports it works in their favor?

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Umbral Regent11/23/2018, 8:27:34 PM4 votes

...why am I getting a chat restriction?

Did you respond back, retaliate, etc? Present your chat logs, and we could probably point out to you what resulted in your chat restriction.

Remember; other people's behavior does not influence whether or not you get punished. If a 3-man premade is flaming you, mute them, do not respond to their flame.

Does the bot look at what the three or four people reporting someone said? So regardless of what they do as long as they have more reports it works in their favor?

The answer to both of these questions is no.

To the first - no, the bot only looks at the chat logs of the player who was reported, as other people's misbehavior does not excuse one's own. They didn't make you type anything, you did, hence why your chat logs are reviewed in isolation.

To the second, also no. The IFS does not care how many reports are filed against you - if you get more than zero reports, you get reviewed. More reports do not increase the likelihood that you'll be punished.

Riot Tantram, the guy who wrote the code for the IFS, provided this snippet of the IFS' code to prove as much;

if (reports > 0) { review(); }

Which, while I may not be into coding myself, I can easily understand that. It basically reads:

"IF a player receives any amount of reports greater than a value of 0, THEN their behavior is reviewed."

It doesn't matter if you were reported by one person, four people, or literally everyone in a given match - you're reviewed once, and only punished if the IFS finds punishable behavior.