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Petition for Changes on the Report Process

Big Sacs Only·12/11/2017, 5:00:03 PM·3 votes·356 views

Looking into this with an open mind, I believe some people can agree that a change in the player reporting process can change for the better. I believe you would lose a lot of false reports on players and make the system target and find real toxic players but changing it like this:

If you wish to report a player and have their game/chat reviewed, you will also be under review.

Think about this first and hear me out before jumping to any conclusions. If you are actually not a toxic player, you should have no problem. If you happened to have lost your cool at a teammate one game, so be it. Let the process decide if you're toxic if you were reported, but it should be fair the other people who reported you are reviewed as well. If they instigated and then reported you for being toxic, that is almost hypocritical.

If Riot would like help on this almost simple project, I'll lead the whole thing.

10 Comments

ModThe Djinn12/11/2017, 5:07:35 PM4 votes

I get what you're going for here, but I don't think this will actually do anything to help decrease toxicity. False reports are tossed out if the behavior is acceptable, so all this really does is make people less inclined to report toxic behavior when they see it.

Toxic players can still help identify other toxic players, and the fact that this discourages either of them from reporting the other person is something I see as an issue.

All this proposal really does is decrease the number of false reports, but false reports already don't have an effect because they're thrown out. The system doesn't need to reduce them, especially when doing so has a very likely side effect of reducing actual reports for real toxicity.

Jo0o12/11/2017, 5:12:29 PM4 votes

I like your theory (not sure where the downvotes are coming from), but in practice I think it's damaging. Baseless report threats are abundant in this community, among the toxics and the misinformed. An innocent player still has plenty of reasons to not want to be reviewed. Threatening them with such would decrease the number of relevant reports as well as false reports, and I don't think that's worthwhile.

I mean, if you're a law-abiding citizen but were told that, if you file a police report, your own house will get searched... would you? I realize that's far from a perfect metaphor, but I hope it illustrates my concern to some extent.

alasarcher12/11/2017, 7:23:44 PM2 votes

Actually, i dont really see downside to this suggestion. If a game is sent to review, all parties involved should be reviewed by automatic system whether they broke rules.