Why is there no rewards for people who report and get people in trouble?

Sekkaru·Sep 26, 2018·3 votes·2,406 views

Riot always sends a thank you message when you report people and they take action. I've helped riot with at least 30 people this season alone, for people trolling as in giving up and running down mid, watching towers fall from the side and refusing to move and do anything, going afk, admitting to boosting, etc. And it seems kind of weird that all you get is a thank you? You get rewards for being honorable, so why not help riot clean their servers from people no one wants in their games because it ruins it for all the other 9? I understand that this would be hard to balance, but you'd think after getting 25, 50, 100 etc you'd get some kind of icon or capsule. Plus if riot did this people would actually care more about reporting and more and more people would step down from doing this. But also the consideration people would report anyone just because someone said "ez" when they won and then get mad at riot for not banning them, the report system would most likely have to be revamped and riot would have to press to people what is reportable/punishable and what isn't.

17 Comments

zPOOPzSep 26, 201810 votes

You mean aside from the obvious?

That people would start reporting everyone in every game? "Oh but then you can punished people for false report". Then people would stop reporting defeating the IFS ability to sort out false and valid reports...

ModPeriscopeSep 26, 20187 votes

I don't see any reason to incentivize reporting players; you're only supposed to do that when your experience has been worse than what you wanted.

HommeGoujonSep 26, 20186 votes

People would report everybody for anything. You clicked a button and it took you 2 seconds dude, relax.

YatolSep 26, 20185 votes

reporting is a tool to reduce toxicity or cheating, not a bounty system.

R107 GamesSep 26, 20184 votes

The player being punished is enough of a reward

Jo0oSep 26, 20184 votes

If somebody engages in nominally toxic chat that doesn’t particularly affect me, I’d feel dishonest about reporting them.

Rewards for triggering punishments could also promote baiting and headhunting.

PaintchipSep 27, 20182 votes

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Rewards for triggering punishments could also promote baiting and headhunting.

This is already a thing. Most of the people who prowl PB bait people in game for the sole purpose of getting a reaction. Riot will never punish the real troll, just the one who snaps. Look at most of their post in this thread and others, they are proud of trying to trigger people, some people que to play, others que to paly "other" types of games in game.

EleshakaiSep 26, 20182 votes

Reason# 1221 why the 'notification when someone you reported gets punished' is a bad thing: It makes people feel entitled to more.

AlienPrimateSep 26, 20182 votes

Well I have reported 22 people in 6 years of playing. People already way overuse the report button. A bad game is not trolling or inting. Out of my 22 reports, only 3 of them were for inting. 1 was for botting and the rest were for negativity or verbal abuse. Why don't you ever look at the match history of said trolls? Almost all of them probably either are just having a bad game or they are flat out a bad player.

zPOOPzSep 26, 20182 votes

This is why 1 report = 9 reports exists. Someone gotta pick up your slack lol.

[sg-soraka]

AlienPrimateSep 26, 20181 votes

Or this is why I had 100% accuracy as an active member of the tribunal when it existed and have had an ifs message on basically all of my reports. People reporting for every little thing is why the system has to be automated now. If everyone had the same view of the report system as me, the tribunal could still exist and banning would be a lot more accurate as well as happen faster.

zPOOPzSep 26, 20183 votes

There are such things as mild toxicity that just get added to your record, but not yet reached punishment level. If everyone only report extreme toxicity like you, there will be many, many mild toxicity and soft troll pattern of behaviors every game that will never see punishment.

I've played since Season 3. I call bs on you seeing only 22 instances of toxicity and zero mild toxicity and soft troll other than that 22 games that should be reported.

For the record, Tribunal was scrapped not because of its accuracy or lack of. Being more accurate has nothing to do with being faster. Even if everyone can have 100% accurate rate in Tribunal, it would still not exist today....

CIaymanSep 26, 20182 votes

Jesus christ the entitlement of this society

VoldymortSep 27, 20181 votes

Ikr

VoldymortSep 27, 20182 votes

If people got rewards for punishments they'd generate then each and everyone of them would report everyone in the game after each game "just in case", regardless of end game result. Is that what you want?

BeatleZzzSep 26, 20181 votes

Since we have some angry people posting in this thread, let me add some common sense.

Reports when they are banned by MANUAL REVIEW by Riot would be sufficient for a reward, like a lootbox and key. for the person who submitted the support ticket. No real drawback to that, since every single person can contact Riot anyway, and most people simply don't have the patience or suffer from too much ADHD to fill out a form and explain "What happened."

Blizzard has sometimes sent loot boxes out randomly to people who file valid reports. One time I got 2 loot boxes for 2 reports on blatant toxic smurfs/boosters intentionally flaming and destroying people in low bronze elo then intentionally throwing the game to drop SR.