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You need man hours to help fix a toxic, demoralizing game experience and I have a solution

Silent Teammate·8/31/2018, 10:16:29 PM·1 votes·1,284 views

League is being overrun by premeditated trolling, and rage monsters who are oversaturated in trying to deal with being trolled and diminished gameplay.

You can argue that all day if you want, someone on this board FOR SURE would happily argue with you but that is not what this thread is for.

I suggest giving restricted players a chance to review ban reports and gameplay of other NON RESTRICTED reported players to help with the tsunami of bad behavior taking over the game.

EG.

  • I get a 25 game chat ban (yes I currently have one. Dig into that if you like)
  • Games played continue to chisel off 1 game of the ban at a time if that is the route I want to take
  • IF I SO CHOOSE, I could access a part of the Riot site that would give me access to a game file that would let me review the chat and play of a game in which a player was reported. Requisite fields (Form/s) could be filled in by me explaining what I saw at what times and I would have to provide evidence of any offense made.
  • A review report would be sent by me on completion to the current body who reviews these type of things.
  • IF MY REVIEW IS DEEMED TO BE FALSE OR MALICIOUS IN ANY WAY THEN MY RESTRICTION CAN BE EXTENDED FURTHER FOR FILING THE FALSE REPORT.
  • If my review is deemed helpful to the process of policing reports, then I can have 3 games removed from my current restriction.
  • In theory, you can also start a separate honor system for those who file these types of reports, possibly weighing priority on reports on those who have proved useful to the process.

This would give the Tribunal many more man hours at their disposal and would help speed the resolution process along nicely.

POSSIBLY it could give toxic players some candid exposure regarding how negatively toxic behavior affects games, and MAY change some of their behaviors in a positive fashion.

tl/dr - Have restricted players put in work towards the punishment system if they so choose. It would give a ton of man hours to the process.

What do you think?

6 Comments

Umbral Regent8/31/2018, 10:37:09 PM7 votes

So, if I'm reading this right...

You're wanting players who have come under some sort of restriction (you don't mention if this is to the exclusion of players under suspensions) to have the ability to perform a Tribunal-esque manual review of a case in exchange for a sizeable decrease in their present sentence, with the only real failsafe against illegitimate reviews being an increased sentence...All of which boils down to Riot having to manually review the manual reviews in order to decide on whether to give a player three games off their punishment or three games on it.

First of all, that doesn't help increase the man hours at all. For every player review, there's going to have to be a Riot review, meaning the amount of people reviewing games is going to be technically exactly the same as if the player review process wasn't added.

Second; you're asking Riot to review your review of a given game to judge if you have the ability to discern punishable behavior...For a reduced sentence. 3 games is a lot off of your sentence, period. That's not something that would be given lightly (or, in general, at all.) It would be far easier and far quicker for you to just serve out your sentence as normal.

Third, the idea runs the risk of players who are already pissed at having a chat restriction taking out their vitriol on a player they review, making an illegitimate review that furthers their punishment...And pisses them off further. That can lead to a player going from bad, to really bad, to worse.

Fourth, the whole idea centers around a small fraction of the playerbase - those who were punished, but not given a suspension. (I'm assuming it's to the exclusion of suspended players, anyway.)

If it's only those people that get to review reports, then there's going to be a fair number of people pissed off - whether it's people who follow the rules and don't get chat restrictions being irritated at not being able to help review matches, or players who got suspended being irritated because the service only extends to those with chat restrictions instead of time-based account suspensions.

If the Tribunal (or any similar service) were to ever come back, I'm doubtful it would be specific to the niche group of players who are under an active chat restriction.

Subdue8/31/2018, 10:27:31 PM5 votes

The IFS is better than the Tribunal, it's both faster and more accurate.

Kei1439/1/2018, 3:01:39 AM4 votes

Why would someone who don't understand why they got punished in the first place be qualified to review other's people toxicity and review it correctly?

Aren't you just needlessly increasing the punishment for those that got punished in the first place?