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Positivity and Summoner Spotlight

Chimewlan·5/1/2016, 7:09:02 PM·3 votes·593 views

I was thinking about this at like seven in the morning so if my ideas are trash, blame it on my grogginess.

So I was thinking, as many others thought about as well, maybe there should be a positive feedback thing at the end of every game. It's like reporting, but positive! For example, if some guy was standing up for a teammate who was being harassed, another teammate could right a report on him at the end of the game about how he was standing up for another player and it gets sent to Riot. Or do that teamwork, helpful thing at the end.

And then after that, Riot could hold a Summoner Spotlight every week or two weeks. Riot could pick a few users who have many positive reports and interview them like: How do you keep your positivity in game? What do you enjoy most about League of Legends? What do you have to say for the rest of the community? I know it wouldn't end the toxicity in game, but I believe it would at least encourage people to be more positive rather than toxic.

5 Comments

JayHog19925/1/2016, 7:16:04 PM1 votes

There's already honors for that, but would be nice to have that. And not just feature certain summoners because they're either famours or main a champion so hard that they end up in the "Ask a X main" topic.

But for now, best you're gonna get is the honor badges, which for some reason seem harder to obtain these days. Back then, I could see 3-7 players every match with those, now it's even surprising to see ONE with a badge.

Chimewlan5/1/2016, 7:18:47 PM1 votes

Indeed. I didn't intend to focus on popular users or if they're really good at a champion. I'm looking at more of the unsung heroes who are positive and make the games actually feel fun even if you are losing.

Erdrik5/2/2016, 2:26:47 AM1 votes

Honors already do the "positive report" part. It sounds interesting, except for this part:

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For example, if some guy was standing up for a teammate who was being harassed, another teammate could [write] a report on him at the end of the game about how he was standing up for another player...

While defending a teammate is admirable, it can very quickly and very easily change to retaliation. The offending player rarely takes the defense without escalating. And ultimately that is not why you are playing.

This forum already shows there are plenty of players that don't know the difference between defending themselves and retaliation. If this idea is to be entertained, I don't think it should include what can too easily become toxic retaliation.

Personally, I think people just need to /whisper or /tell (or whatever the command is) the victim and send words of encouragement. That way you can help the victim without igniting the offending player. And the victim could even honor the /whisper-er with a "helpful" or "friendly" after the match if they felt grateful.