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Riot your report system is broken.

VhCjGkV58q·12/6/2015, 7:12:23 PM·2 votes·1,295 views

I was just muted for 25 games for standing up for myself. All game i was harassed by my teammates, if only you could see from chat logs what they say its AWFUL................. every time i died, i got a LMAO!!! and this lee sin is bad!!!!! All i said in all chat was "can you report so and so? "and I get mocked by enemy. They start to cuss me out and degrade me. I report everyone who abused me that game and what do i get..? Reports... and I get muted. Look at my chat log. And tell me... Is this right? All game i am abused (thanks to riot you cant see what your allies or enemy are saying, which can range from send me your pictures of your feet to i hope your whole family gets cancer), and i do not curse or swear at them, i tell them to stop and they will get muted and reported and im MUTED? I will attach all 3 games you guys seemed "deemed" as toxic.

Innocent people are being punished Riot.

I see you to two courses of actions here. Either you guys DO something. Or do NOTHING.

Pictures of my chatlogs:

http://postimg.org/image/grssrs4iz/full/

Your two choices also have a very simple resolution. Resolving that you CARE about innocent players being DERGRATED and thrown into PITS or Resolving that YOU DONT CARE and youre just going to sit back and spend ALL OUR MONEY WE GIVE YOU TO CREATE SUCH A HORRIBLE COMMUNITY AND "TRIBUNAL".

Signing off,

For Justice.

PS: Due to all the negativity im getting im no longer following this post, you guys want a toxic community filled with trolls, leavers and bashers? Then be my guest, SORRY for trying to make a STAND AT WHATS RIGHT.

52 Comments

SmokedAlmonds12/6/2015, 7:27:18 PM7 votes

I don't see a lot of standing up for yourself in those logs. I see a lot of you egging other people on and threatening to report and mute them. Just mute and report as you see fit. Telling people and threatening to do it does nothing but antagonize people and has been considered negative and punishable for as long as I can remember. Seems like you were well intention but while you may have started those games innocent, but you did not end them that way.

Were you 10 game chat restricted before this and did the logs look similar to this?

Faith Breaker12/6/2015, 8:02:17 PM3 votes

Riot wants you to be quiet and take the punishment, and deal with it and let it destroy your self esteem. Riot won't do anything to these people because....well. To be honest I don't know why. Riot says they punish toxic players but it seems the majority of toxic players are not punished and it's decent players put on tilt that get punished.

Now, if you as you say stand up for yourself, Riot will strike you down with all the fury of a mighty god. How dare you have self esteem!

Riot will never change their ways unless Tencent asks them, because Riot has grown past the point of caring about their community. They are now successful enough to completely disregard the community while at the same time proclaiming they don't. Baldfaced lies are easier to make when you are successful, you have your success to sustain you through periods of customer or community discourse.

But also it is a double faced coin. Riot can never stop you from playing this game. You can always make any number of smurf accounts. The trick is to never spend any more money on this game ever again. Honestly would you with the way they treat you? No I bet you won't. So keep playing, keep making accounts, and give's not a single ****

VhCjGkV58q12/6/2015, 7:56:39 PM1 votes

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Kei14312/7/2015, 1:35:49 AM1 votes

While you say that you are no longer following this thread, I'll post this here anyways, in the hopes that you'll see this.

Your motivations are admirable, but as many have stated, your methods require a little bit of improvement. Typical human psychology does not enjoy being communicated in a negative manner. Their normal reaction is to retaliate to that negativity. Lets say one of these "trolls" you speak of may be suffering from tilt from a previous game that trolled them. They just may be at 25% negativity when they started the game, but after seeing that you want to report them, they'll tilt even more and get to 50% negativity. Then they retaliate, you retaliate and the cycle goes on.

Defending and standing up for the verbally abused is great. If you are willing to take a look at alternative methods, then read on.

You can start with gentle reminders that what they are doing is not acceptable and recommend them to stop. This is not to be confused with "I'll report you now and I'll hope you'll stop and reform right away". So something like "Please stop saying things in such a manner, I don't appreciate it."
If they continue, you can let them know that their actions are reportable by saying things like "Did you know, the community believes that if you are calling people to kill themselves is widely unacceptable and you may be reported?". Now this is different than just saying "reported" as it provides context on why they are being toxic. Now I know that during a heated game, that's hard to type, but hey, if you want to change the community, some game time has to give.
Sometimes taking a step back can get you to calm someone else down. If they are responding really negatively to you, it might just be their tilt causing problems. Try stepping back a bit and say "My apologies, did I step on your toes by mistake? I just wanted to calm you down a bit".
According to Riot's statistics, telling others to report an ally / enemy is considered verbal abused and unsportsmanlike. Riot has also stated that the number of reports within the same game does not increase the weight of the report. So if you know that, there is no need to put yourself at risk of a punishment. Report quietly at the end of the game and move on. If you are doing this right, you'll see punishment messages here and there and it'll put a smile on your face.
Sometimes they are legitimately a troll / toxic. Those people enjoy reading the reactions of the innocent and that turns them on. Its just like how bullies enjoy seeing the bullied crying. Don't play their game. Stay cool, calm and collected. You can choose to mute them, you can choose to ignore anything they say (you'll be surprised how much text you can ignore once you've made up your mind you would just ignore them), or you can reverse troll them by saying totally irrelevant things like "Today's apples look fresh". You can have some fun with reverse irrelevant trolling and the trolls quickly learn that there no point in trolling you. Of course, at the end of the game, you can quietly report them (remember point #4).

Don't give up on an honorable motive. Keep trying at it. Do it in an intellectual way, and people will change, 1 player at a time.