Idea on dealing with troll smurfs who say "idc if i get banned, not my main acc"

XinZhao2WinNhao·12/11/2015, 3:15:29 AM·4 votes·1,808 views

Troll smurfs/toxic smurfs are a problem. They say "its not my main acc idc if I get banned on this acc". So they act toxic no matter what you report them for.

I'm not suggesting IP bans. In fact, I'm against IP bans (it just seems so final, I believe that everyone should have a chance. There was a famous troll who had over 10 accounts banned, and all of a sudden he changed his behavior and his 11th account or so is still playing without bans)

However, I think there's a way to deal with these troll toxic smurfs. If their smurf account is convicted for a really serious form of toxicity such as telling people to kill themselves, hate speech, wishing death on people, threatening people, etc, Riot should find out their main account- the one they play the most on or spend the most money on (the account they actually care about) and ban that account instead of the smurf. That will teach them to not be like "it's not my main acc so i can act toxic i dont carer if i get banned on my smurf".

Most people don't have too many people using 1 IP. If they are on a library or a university it may be harder and you may have to settle for banning the smurf, but for people who play at home there might be like 3 or 4 people at most using that same IP. A good computer algorithm could definitely tell the difference from chatting and playstyles to identify whether they are the same person or not. One thing that computer algorithms are very good at is not identifying verbal abuse (the current robot tribunal isn't really a good idea, sorry, I want a human tribunal for that), but an algorithm is great at telling the difference between 2 people based on their chatting and playstyles and I think that's what the algorithm should be used for.

Tl;dr: Really? This was like 50 words. But anyways. Ban. The. Main. Account.

33 Comments

lolptwo12/11/2015, 8:52:10 AM4 votes

How would you find out someone's main account. That's a massive gap you fail you explain. People oftentimes play with multiple people sharing the same computer with several accounts(this is especially true in college). You cannot ban IP adresse or else campuses and libraries would instantly be banned. As well as anyone with a toxic in game roomie. You cannot punish someone who spent money on your game who didn't do anything wrong because of the actions of someone else. That's bordeline illegal, and you can't fish the account out of them by name or else people could just pretend they own an account of someone they want banned or say their friends/roommates account is theirs and get that person's account banned.

TL;DR : There is no plausible way to find out who is playing what account without an actual facecam and too many innocent people could be harmed for no reason.

JARmates12/11/2015, 11:09:36 AM2 votes

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Troll smurfs/toxic smurfs are a problem. They say "its not my main acc idc if I get banned on this acc". So they act toxic no matter what you report them for.

I'm not suggesting IP bans. In fact, I'm against IP bans (it just seems so final, I believe that everyone should have a chance. There was a famous troll who had over 10 accounts banned, and all of a sudden he changed his behavior and his 11th account or so is still playing without bans)

However, I think there's a way to deal with these troll toxic smurfs. If their smurf account is convicted for a really serious form of toxicity such as telling people to kill themselves, hate speech, wishing death on people, threatening people, etc, Riot should find out their main account- the one they play the most on or spend the most money on (the account they actually care about) and ban that account instead of the smurf. That will teach them to not be like "it's not my main acc so i can act toxic i dont carer if i get banned on my smurf".

Tl;dr: Really? This was like 50 words. But anyways. Ban. The. Main. Account.

Gosh you are worst than any toxic troll I have ever known. You know I suggest you mind your own damn business or stop playing league all together. I hate soft skin punk like yourself who want to ruin the game for everyone. If I ever see you in game, I will block you.

Samus7212/11/2015, 3:19:57 AM1 votes

IP bans are not effective since most people's IP addresses refresh every couple of weeks.

It would probably involve a lot of time to track down someone's main account. I don't know that Riot would want to dedicate that kind of time to this issue. And there's nothing stopping that person from simply making a new one. It's one of the downsides to free games.

I don't have much of an answer to this other than Riot can only do what they can do. Not very satisfying. But, what are the other options?

GamblerOfLives12/11/2015, 3:53:42 AM1 votes

GENIUS

How are not the president of the USA yet?HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

Raistlin12/12/2015, 2:12:41 PM1 votes

You guys are still playing League of legends and stacking your frustration from the toxic community untill you burst? Well played.

After having lost 20+games in a row with every single one related to someone being afk/feeding, i saw the light, unninstalled, went Smite, and from that point my life, has been awesome :D

I do hope with all my heart that league of legends remains a pit for all toxic and immature players of this world, and that they never migrate to other mobas.

Peace