A way to drastically reduce trolling in league

Skencer·Jan 30, 2017·2 votes·626 views

After a particular game with another stupid troll I thought of a solution. First off I'll explain the problem, if you're not interested skip to the solution.

Problem: Trolls are a dime a dozen and banning them does no good. Even if a troll does get banned they just jump back up and get onto another account, therefore there is no action that can actually be taken towards them.

Solution: When a banned account attempts to log in, lock the client for the remainder of the ban time (1 day, 3 days etc....). This wouldn't permanently remove them but at the absolute least they would be forced to re-download the entire client before they could get onto another of their accounts, or wait out the ban (as bans are intended to force them to do). I'm not saying that it would be incredibly easy but it wouldn't be impossible and with what I know about programming, I don't believe that it would be that hard. simply have the code for when a ban kicks a player or stops them from logging, lock the client until a certain date. This could be bypassed a few ways but they would at least be annoying to pybass.

7 Comments

TsunderellaJan 30, 20173 votes

What about people who play at internet cafes?

SkencerJan 30, 20171 votes

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What about people who play at internet cafes?

I'm not aware of the etiquette of an internet cafe but it would force them to swap computers to swap accounts. Then that computer would indeed be locked.... Well as I said, not perfect. Though if it were implemented it may force internet cafe's to provide their own punishment for it such as getting banned from the cafe for the duration or paying a fee to swap computers. Lastly anyone with a good internet connection (mine sucks and cafe's probably have a good one) would just be able to download it again within the hour so I don't think a cafe would be all that inconvenienced by it.

Deep Terror NamiJan 30, 20172 votes

I don't think he means how the banned player would be affected, but how other players trying to use that PC would be affected. Yes, they (the cafe and the users) would be terribly inconvenienced by this.

This is basically the same reason they don't do IP bans, because of the collateral damage and overall ineffectiveness.

scazzmanJan 30, 20172 votes

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I don't think he means how the banned player would be affected, but how other players trying to use that PC would be affected. Yes, they (the cafe and the users) would be terribly inconvenienced by this.

This is basically the same reason they don't do IP bans, because of the collateral damage and overall ineffectiveness.

however forcing a re download of the client would be contained to a single PC. and like the OP said, at that point the internet cafe could impose it's own punishment for getting banned on one of their machines, and any internet cafe worth thier salt would have a software guy on speed dial. and unlike an IP ban. this would be linked to the client and couldn't be circumvented by simply resetting your modem

CooL Ice TeaJan 30, 20171 votes

"A way to drastically reduce trolling in league"

Solution: Everyone has to send in his real life ID which is connected to the account.

That's kind of the only way which I also don't like.

deathgod5Jan 30, 20171 votes

It is bypassed with: 1: uninstall league and remove all appdata of the game 2: reinstall league. 3: ur gud again.

It wouldn't work and if you like me live in a house with another player you can also not lock the ban based of ip.

SkencerJan 30, 20171 votes

I get that and I agree that it's easy enough to bypass. But it would also take a fair amount of time to download it again. League is a very large file and can't just be downloaded in 5 minutes (though keeping another copy on an external and just swapping over would be easy enough, another issue). Also as for shared computers if people who share the computer can't get on their accounts due to this I'd like to think that they'll try to stop the behavior in the future. Given that most trolls have the mentality of a middle schooler I'd like to think that they'd just get grounded and kept off when their siblings explain the situation to their parents. Again, I realize that it's not perfect.