I am just wondering how the new reporting system works... to my knowledge, it is not the old tribunal where players read chat logs and made a decision. A computer does all this now, correct?
So, how does it "scan" chat logs for toxic players? Does it only scan for curse words? If so, then as long as a player does not swear, then he or she won't get caught... right?
How does the system recognize a toxic person who does not use swear words?
The system is actually quite smart. To my understanding it's an artificial neural network - it was shown thousands of "toxic" logs by Riot, and learned what patterns were in those logs. So it will probably punish "this team sucks" but not just saying "sucks", for example.
Further, it likely rates "how toxic" a game log was. One bad message? Probably no punishment. Many over the course of a game? Probably a punishment.
Aside from hate speech/encouraging suicide/etc, which are search-for-word, it's based on rules that Riot itself doesn't even know (considering the ANN makes its own rules based on fed data).
There is no tribunal anymore. Just an automated computer that looks for people being what Riot considers "jerks" and applies a punishment.
Lol, yeah, I know...it's hilarious and pathetic and sad all at the same time.
It can read syntax, understand sarcasm, and notice those trying to get around a 'chat filter' type detection. Report toxic behavior, and it'll learn what we determine to be toxic.
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You're correct, it's all automated now . . . which is why some players get false reported and hostile players walk free, the computer can't read between the lines or tell the difference of sarcasm. As for specifics on how it thinks, I don't know, sorry.
