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Limit the amount of reports and honors, and make them mean something.

the weeaboo·5/24/2017, 1:24:52 AM·1 votes·447 views

It's just like inflation.

At the moment both honors and reports aren't worth ANYTHING. I report people. People say they will report me. I honor someone. They honor me. Guess what happens? Nothing. Unless this kid literally goes 0/20 and said the N-word 3 times, I've never seen anything done about reports.

I recommend doing it Dota 2 style, where you get ~6 honors and reports per week. That way people aren't throwing out reports at people for "feeding" when they go 3/7. They'll actually have to use their reports wisely one people they legit think should get punishment. As well, Riot will be able to more closely inspect these reports -- since 2 in every 3 of them won't be "fake" -- which will lead to more justice.

I know what you're going to say "b-but PhantomAxolotl, I get more than 6 afks, feeds, trolls, etc. in my games in a week!". People will do these things less if there is more punishment being handed out to people who deserve it. Or we get a few more.

Please just consider it.

16 Comments

LostFr0st5/24/2017, 1:28:08 AM1 votes

The honour system is getting revamped this year sometime, you're right that it means next to nothing right now.

However, reports do work. A report tells the system to check the game, there are no report weightings anymore. You just don't get the popup unless you were the one to report them in the very last game before the punishment was given.

Aptest5/24/2017, 8:07:45 AM1 votes

It could be really nice to have actual rewards for getting honored. I suggest, redeemable vouchers for: dodging with no time penalty, forcing or vetoring a surrender vote / surrender early, removing a champion ban from your own team, etc.

TrulyBland5/24/2017, 8:37:03 AM1 votes

Reports are already all leading to a review by the automated system. So with that in mind limiting reports would simply lead to less punishments. I also don't think it would lower the percentage of fake reports that much. I doubt people who issue fake reports care all that much about losing the ability to report an actually toxic player. Also: You not seeing anything being done about reports does not mean that nothing is done about reports.

The one thing out of your idea that strikes me as interesting is this part:

As well, Riot will be able to more closely inspect these reports -- since 2 in every 3 of them won't be "fake" -- which will lead to more justice.

We already have an automated system to dish out the fast punishment that allows Riot to review every single report. But what if we had an additional kind of report, one that requests manual review? Riot can limit the use of that report as much as they have to so they can actually deal with all of them (while taking away the ability to report from people who abuse the feature). Banning the few players that get reported with this feature isn't even the most important part, though. People can use it to point out behaviour that is difficult to automatically detect. So people could actually use this report to help Riot improve their automated system.