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Reduce Toxicity: Interactive Terms of Use

Rx Legacy·12/7/2017, 11:38:50 PM·1 votes·412 views

Another idea is using a one-time only quiz to lift a ban after breaking the Terms of Use. It would involve having the player read the terms of use, find the highlighted parts pertinent to the quiz, and then take the quiz AFTER reading it. (You cannot go back to the Terms of Use). After the player passes the quiz, the ban gets lifted and hopefully they won't take action to cause them to get banned in the first place.

Again, another idea that's ONE-TIME ONLY per account.

This is just an idea and I thought I'd attempt this, but to point out the reality, probably ~90% of the playerbase does NOT read the terms of use, which thus no one knows about actions or activity within the game until they get a report/ban.

Therefore, to reduce the amount of toxicity and amount of reactive players, perhaps make the Terms of Use interactable (like DocuSign) that is required before a player is even allowed to step foot into the Summoner's Rift.

The following would be typed/required in order to go through to the game.

Please tell me if I need to re-word some things as Grammar is not my best

Please Read and check the following:

  1. I agree that flaming, being toxic, stating hate speech, etc. to other players will result in a possible permanent ban.

  2. I agree that ruining other players games intentionally can result in action taken against my account.

  3. I agree that telling players to kill themselves is against the terms of use and there is zero tolerance and can result in a permanent ban.

  4. I agree to provide sportsmanship-like behavior within my game and uphold honor and respect to other players.

  5. I agree that if I get banned, any content that I have unlocked such as skins, champions, etc. are not refundable and that I understand that I do not own these content, but I have the privilage to access such content.

  6. Finally, I agree and read all terms of use and service and held liable for any action taken against my account with due reason and if I break the terms of use, I am at risk of potential ban and termination of my account.

Box to sign name:

12 Comments

Jamaree12/7/2017, 11:40:07 PM2 votes

That wouldn’t reduce toxicity.

Zombie Gerbil12/8/2017, 12:47:04 AM2 votes

It would help players be more aware, but it wouldn't stop toxicity. Giving them guidelines and example what is acceptable and what isn't might help players think twice about their actions. Players not reading Term of Use just shows how careless they are about the consequences. But I honestly believe it won't reduce toxicity due to the fact toxic players will one day slip up because it's just their nature.

Maybe if a player gets the first penalty, have them do a quiz or have them accept an agreement after they review what they did wrong and what actions are unacceptable. Such as trolling, flaming, slurs, intentional feeding, retaliating against their team, etc.

Sona Ping12/7/2017, 11:42:18 PM1 votes

that is required before a player is even allowed to step foot into the Summoner's Rift. The following would be typed/required in order to go through to the game:

[Paragraph of text to write]

NO.[sg-syndra]

iM Uranium12/8/2017, 12:03:52 AM1 votes

They would just spam click it. I don't feel it reduce toxicity. You will always have toxic players, just like you will always have bad people, rapist, killers, etc...They represent a small portion of the actual community if you look at statistics. Just mute them, turn off global chat, throw on some youtube music and jam out. It's too easy now to block all communications including emotes/pings from players. Literally that is how you get rid of toxic players. If people have them muted and no one responds they will eventually stop because they are muted anyways. That way you don't tilt or waste time with them. Making it interactive will just make it longer to get to sign in game but not reduce toxicity. Once they receive a week ban or 2 week or even permanent if they do come back they would be most likely conformed and realize that all the time/money they put in the game is at risk or lost and will not want to risk the possibility of losing it all.

Umbral Regent12/8/2017, 12:58:18 AM1 votes

No amount of making the Terms of Use "interactive" is going to change how many rulebreakers there are.

If 90% of the players don't read the TOU when the click "Accept", d'you really think they'll read the TOU when prompted to write down an agreement ad-verbatim?

The whole proposition relies on the assumption that the prompt itself will cause them - whether directly or indirectly - to read through the TOU. And, if the assumption is also that 90% of the players don't read it...D'you see where it's going?

The only way that the proposition would even remotely work is to have keywords or whatever hidden/highlighted throughout the TOU - players would then have to read through the TOU to find said highlighted words to type them in for the agreement.

But even that has a telling flaw in that the words have to be highlighted in some way, meaning players will just skim through the TOU looking for whatever word stands out so they can skip ahead and do the equivalent of "not reading and clicking Accept".

If there are feasible avenues to deal with toxicity, this isn't one of them surely.