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Riot's tribunal system

toorazamaki·7/21/2017, 5:18:30 PM·2 votes·558 views

Is riot's tribunal system really by players or is it really just automated? Some games people say the worse things but never get the notification that they got punished when they say stuff like report so and so teammate (this is literally the cause of negativity and loss in morale in low bronze unranked elo games), or when they say KYS to say for you to kill yourself etc. That should be what is punished but yet if not enough people report or previous games report them then they get away with it. But yet if a bunch of players like 2 or 3 on your team and 2 or 3 on enemy team report 1 person, they automatically get chat restricted even though their offense wasn't even that major considering the overall chat they were in. If I get put into a game where people say Kys and uninstall and report me its like i should get to say something back but of course you gotta be a good little boy and say nothing at all and just mute and report right? but then even if you report, they dont get in trouble because its only your 1 report on each of them versus 4 reports or more on just you alone. Meaning you lose.

Edit: It's like that means i should just play and not talk a single line in chat to dodge any tribunal. It's a flawed system because as long as you type something whether it is deemed worthy of getting in trouble or not, you get in trouble even if the person was saying even worse things. Blah just gonna mute everyone from now on

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ModThe Djinn7/21/2017, 5:33:53 PM2 votes

So the system in general works something like this (not official -- just what we've gleaned from what Riot has shared):

ANY report (1, 2, 3, 9...doesn't matter) flags a game.
The system sees if it can find any behavior that typically earns an escalated punishment (hate speech, "kill yourself", etc.). If it does, it's likely to punish that account.
If it doesn't, the system marks a game against that player if the behavior appears toxic -- There a filter that identifies false reports, but we don't know the specifics of how it works.
If your account passes a line set by its previous behavior (a factor of behavior, games played vs. gamed reported, and a few other things) you will likely earn a punishment.
The person who reported you LAST (and only that person) gets a message if your account is punished as a result of that action.

So no, 3 people falsely reporting you in one or two games will do basically nothing to your account standing. 1 report (yours) against 9 toxic players has actually MORE impact than their 9 reports against you, as the system is good at identifying false reports.

Kei1437/21/2017, 6:29:54 PM1 votes

Is riot's tribunal system really by players or is it really just automated?

It's both.

The automated system learns from the players of what is acceptable and what isn't (through our reports), if many members within the community report it, then chances are certain context of things are considered offensive to the community and thus becomes punishable.

From a big picture standpoint, when a few people falsely report a person, there will be millions of games played without that specific context being reported and thus the system would consider it a false report.

In KR server, calling people "a silver" is actually a punishable offense, but certainly not (as much) within the NA community.

The system is also not like our court system, where you are judged based on 1 case alone against the other people within the game. The system punishes based on the history of the individual's history alone and that alone.

If a guy is constantly being mildly negative, the system will catch up to them maybe in like .. 100 games? But if a guy was being worse, he may get punished within 4 games. So if the highly toxic dude was playing their 2nd game, and the mildly toxic was playing their 100th game, the mildly toxic dude will get punished after the game, while thinking the highly toxic dude got away scout free. His time just hasn't come yet, and when the time comes to punish the highly toxic dude, the mildly toxic dude won't know about it cos the system only gives a punishment notification when the game the highly toxicly dude last played in the was the that punished him.