Do my reports do anything when their toxicity is purposely misspelled?

HidingInYoBushes·4/10/2016, 6:35:00 AM·1 votes·409 views

So lately I have noticed that instead of the normal toxicity I have come to know and love about league, I am instead seeing toxicity with a twist, Players are misspelling their profanity in what I can only assume is an attempt to avoid the consequences of the automated system for reports.

I'm seeing things like: "feget" "nicker" "fux u"

and any other variation that still gets the meaning across but isn't the actual word. Not just with these 3 forms of obvious verbal abuse and hate speech but even simpler profanity.

SO my question is, when I report these people, is the system recognizing their behavior for what it truely is? or are they able to slide under the radar because they haven't spelled the hate speech and profanity in the most recognizable way?

I would love to get some feed back on this issue from someone at riot, because I can't be the only one to have noticed this becoming more and more popular the last few months.

4 Comments

disregardable4/10/2016, 6:47:28 AM4 votes

The system is designed to adapt based on the data it gets. So if lots of people report those words as hate speech, then the system will recognize them as such.

Btw profanity isn't against the rules. Only hate speech and being unsportsmanlike.

Mister Modesty4/10/2016, 6:52:34 AM1 votes

I think theyre misspelling so you know what theyre calling you. I dont even know how to disable chat filter anymore- it apparently moved somewhere else. So I say things like "shitt I missed that" "fukk I forgot to upgrade trinket" so people dont see " ++++ I missed that".. asterisks don't show in forums because of bolding.