Why is asking people to report someone a bad thing?

Kikirino·Dec 8, 2015·3 votes·609 views

I feel as though I remember reading that it is even a reportable offence.

Why? I am not asking because I do it and don't want to get in trouble but I tend to forget when someone says or does something reportable in a match and unless I am reminded when someone says "please report X" I won't report them. If someone says some racist shit I will forget before the match ends because I didn't care in the first place but if someone on my team says "report udyr toxic" then I will remember what he said and report. Same goes for afks on the enemy team. If someone never connects for the enemy I will probably not remember to report it unless they ask for reports as the match is ending.

Nothing really bothers me in games like this so I very often forget to report players that deserve reports but when reports are asked for I remember and do it. Why is this a bad thing?

12 Comments

Awkward CouchDec 8, 20152 votes

I believe it is a reportable offence because it could be considered a "witch hunt" scenario. The mentality is if we all gang up on this one player then they'll get reported times 9 and he or she is going to get punished. If people read these boards, they would realize that 1 report on a game carries as much weight as 9 reports on a single game.

Often times I don't report people because they ask. Especially when the enemy team says "Report X for being toxic". I'm under the mentality of, they weren't toxic from what I could see so I have no merit to report them. But that's just my take on things.

Makior72Dec 8, 20151 votes

I beleive it has to do with report accuracy. If at the end of a game i say "report udyr flamed us all game said he would eat my first born" you have no idea if he actually said that.

Thus unknowingly uou are diminishing the value of your own reports in the long run as well as (potentially) trying to punish an innocent person.

KikirinoDec 8, 20151 votes

In that case I always say /all sorry, we cannot report what we cannot see. But I see your argument there.

KrigjerDec 8, 20151 votes

I beleive it has to do with report accuracy. If at the end of a game i say "report udyr flamed us all game said he would eat my first born" you have no idea if he actually said that.

This usually.

I won't report an enemy unless I actually saw them say something toxic in all-chat OR watched them purposely feed or troll.

As for asking for reports, that behavior is considered toxic itself, but I also think it depends on the situation. As you said, being reminded to possibly report someone is fine, but begging for reports is not.

Asking me to report someone that I don't think did anything wrong just makes me want to report the person asking.

DraphenDec 8, 20151 votes

Anything can be be a thing if you balance AP, AD, CC, and tankiness properly. It's just tougher to take towers without an ADC. Perhaps with an ADC top (properly counterpicked) and a tanky jungle. Who knows?

Sona PingDec 8, 20151 votes

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Anything can be be a thing if you balance AP, AD, CC, and tankiness properly. It's just tougher to take towers without an ADC. Perhaps with an ADC top (properly counterpicked) and a tanky jungle. Who knows?

I think you fired and missed the thread you were aiming for, dude.

GrashnimDec 8, 20151 votes

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KikirinoDec 8, 20151 votes

I don't think you read past the title. A for effort though.

KorilloDec 8, 20151 votes

Honestly if you forget to report someone, then their behaviour was likely not that bad so they probably did not deserve a report.

It's a reportable offense because a while back people would abuse the system by bullying other players than trying to convince the other players to report the player they were bullying.

At the end of the day though, you should be responsible for the reports you make. If you feel someone should be reported, go ahead and report them. Let everyone else make their own decisions as well, there's no need to ask them to report someone.

KikirinoDec 8, 20153 votes

I forget to report people because I have 'thick skin' and have the mentality that none of these people would have the balls to say/do anything in real life so I read their toxic/troll chat and then immediately forget it and continue with the game. This doesn't mean they don't deserve reports though.

SmokedAlmondsDec 8, 20151 votes

It is bad because if for no other reason than it is inflammatory. Almost every time I see someone say the word report in game it is immediately followed up by more toxicity. People should report what they feel should be reported not what you feel should be reported. If you need to make a note for yourself or w/e to remind yourself to report something then maybe you should. I doubt everyone in a game is forgetting to report things like racism often though.

Sona PingDec 8, 20151 votes

Likely because of:

"There's an interesting tidbit here. We ran a language processing analysis once on 'good' players and 'toxic' players and tried to determine the most common words used by these populations. It turns out that for the most toxic players in the world, the most common word they use is 'report.'" -Lyte

Nevermind that this method won't be relevant and would naturally give biased results, nevemind that, like ninety percent of winrate arguments, the actual reality is not represented in the fabricated scenario you are applying the numbers to, "The survey said toxic people use the word 'report' and a couple of players we talked said they don't like being told they are being reported, so that means the word 'report' is toxic and if you say it, the community agrees you deserve a ban". Yes, I'm being blunt and unforgiving for a point, I know that. But that's pretty much the most likely reason why.