Helping me report a player

FlyingRoboticCow·Jun 4, 2017·2 votes·265 views

Hi I'm currently helping my younger cousin learn the game and he just had a run in with a world class a-hole even by this communities standards and was hoping someone could help me report this person as my cousin unfortunately exited out of the post game lobby before I could help him write a report. To give some context he was in his second or third bot game and this person was obviously a higher lvl (they had a keystone) and to say they were using hate speech and had a negative attitude towards the newer members of the community is a gross understatement.

3 Comments

Deep Terror NamiJun 4, 20171 votes

Hey FlyingRoboticCow, sorry you and your cousin had such a bad experience with this player. We all run into this occasionally and nobody wants it to happen to others so it's good that you want to report it.

I wouldn't worry too much about forgetting to report them if they were very toxic. It only takes one report to flag them for review by the system, so as long as anyone in that match report them then you're all set and it's fine that he forgot to report. The system will check it the same no matter how many people report it!

FlyingRoboticCowJun 4, 20171 votes

Thank you very much for the response I'm a long time player and i'm familiar with how it all works but i'm adamant about ensuring this person doesn't get to continue being that toxic and hurtful to people who are brand new to the game and the community.

Deep Terror NamiJun 4, 20171 votes

I do understand the urge to circumvent the system and seek a swift punishment, but we have to extend the same courtesies to everyone to ensure fairness. If they are like this regularly, they will be on the fast path to punishment, and for the majority of players it only takes one punishment to put them back on the straight and narrow.

Everybody gets a little toxic sometimes, so Riot doesn't typically punish for an occasional bad day or otherwise infrequent negativity, unless it's very severe. Relying on the report system allows Riot to create a pattern of their behavior to determine whether they really should be punished or not, and if you skip around that for personal satisfaction it's completely unfair (thought that isn't to say there are not cases which should be immediately punished severely but are not).