PSA: Don't Trust Enemies Asking For Reports Without Evidence

I just saw a clearly new JG taking a lot of mid CS in a normal. The Veigar on his team got mad and asked for reports. Then, the JG's duo started saying how Veigar was using racist slurs and so on. The duo was clearly trying to get others to gang up on the Veigar in some ethically twisted way of defending his duo even if he had to resort to bald faced lies to do it. The Veigar denied it all and I believe him because nothing in the game would have prompted such comments + his all chat did not show anything of the sort. He was just mad about WW taking CS and that was it. Clearly, he was taking normals too seriously but I think the duo behavior was 10x worse.

I've seen this even in ranked games. People actually lie about racist comments and hate speech then go to all chat and smear someone by saying they said those things. The worst part is that I've seen people on the opposite team, who clearly saw none of it, actually say "will do" etc. in terms of reports. This is a terrible mindset. Don't just blindly trust when you have no evidence yourself and you've seen nothing. If those players had actually said those things, there would be no need for players to go into all chat and try to get enemies to report too. It's very often hateful lies intended to instigate and make the victim say something that is actually punishable. It's just a sick game duos play to try to abuse their power and bully others even using the system aimed at protecting players against them. I've seen it over a dozen times on my own team. Usually one player says something the duo doesn't like or doesn't follow their call and that's how it starts. Then, the guy being smeared calls out the liars, asks for reports, calls them pathetic etc. and he probably gets punished for it too. It's quite sad and I can only imagine the rage it causes to be the victim of vicious lies and then end up with a punishment as well as reports from people who believe blindly despite no evidence.

You'll tell me it doesn't count those reports anyway but I don't believe that. From what I've seen for many players, report frequency relative to the average player is actually a pretty big signal for the system. Thus, if a player says the exact same thing but is reported far more often (even in the same game), it will more likely lead to punishments. There are many cases that suggest this, including the stuff with off-meta picks. There isn't much transparency as far as the player behavior system's concerned and nor is there context. The old Tribunal was slower but it was infinitely more fair and ethical. You actually saw chat and were judged by peers who could see what others were saying. Many times even innocent things in one context appear toxic with no context.

Anyway, this was really the entire purpose of the post. Don't report people just because someone's asking you to if you haven't observed the behavior yourself. I've seen so many liars and I think these manipulative people who are willing to lie and smear others are the absolute worst human beings on the server. I can understand someone loosing their cool occasionally but cold and calculated manipulation to try to hurt someone because you don't like them is just disgusting to me and I think too many players fall for it either by getting falsely reported or by being so mad it's happening that the bot punishes them instead.