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Implement Player Moderators?

Officially·5/30/2017, 4:30:35 AM·2 votes·422 views

Similar to how discord, twitch, etc. can have moderators, maybe implement moderators that help monitor player behavior? These moderators would have very little power in game, but if they choose to report someone for negative attitude, int. feeding, etc. they would show up as a high profile case in Riot's report system. I'm mainly suggesting this because in my recent games, I feel like I've come across many many people with bad attitude's that wanna ff15, afk, or just not cooperate with the team. I'm always the one telling them to stop typing, focus on the game, and mute each other so they don't keep arguing. To become a moderator, the requirements would be pretty strict (similar to PBE requirements?). Riot would have to go through chat logs and match history to see if the applicant is truly non-toxic and is trust worthy of flagging players who do not follow summoners code. I'm sure there are probably many things that could be improved with my diea (as well as issues?), but I hope it could be a good starting point for a future feature. TLDR? Implement moderators that can flag negative players with a report that has a higher priority over other reports.

7 Comments

FurriesAreHot5/30/2017, 1:59:58 PM2 votes

I wouldn't trust a teenager with powers to remove me from my 3rd favorite game.

scazzman5/30/2017, 7:26:25 AM1 votes

this actually isnt a bad idea. i also think everyone should be given a certain amount of "super reports" per day which would automatically flag for manual review as opposed to the IFS.

Martensitic5/30/2017, 1:49:50 PM1 votes

Oh look, its that old story again.

Lets just quickly recap the reasons we already discussed the last 10000 times this "great, new idea" has been posted.

#Why this idea doesn't work:

  • There is no reliable screen process to determine who should get these special powers

  • The entire system is open to abuse. Putting the handling of the problem into the hands of the community, which is part of the problem? Yeah....there is a reason why we have police force and legal courts instead of giving everyone a weapon and announcing frontier-justice...

  • The amount of player - deputys/watchmen/moderators/whateveryoumaycallthem in such a system to actually have a noticeable impact would be insanely high. How many people do you think are necessary to have a "player-moderator" in just 1/100th of the games played? Well, easy to calculate: The average league player plays between 2-3 games a day, and about 70-80 million games are played daily. 80x10^6 / 3 / 100 = 266666 players.

266666 players. And that would just cover 1 game in every hundred.

There is no screening process, no applicatrion process, no supervising process in the world that can manage these numbers.

And even if there was: What's the use of a player moderation service to supervise games, when I need an army of riot employees supervising the supervisers, just to make sure the player moderators are not abusing their privileges?