Tribunal. . . . Where has it been?!

Randune·11/18/2016, 6:02:49 PM·3 votes·1,230 views
The Tribunal - Maintenance

The Tribunal was a great system. It allowed members of the community to review cases when people where reported for misconduct. It also allowed us to see directly the results of reporting toxic players. It would let you know when the majority of the community agreed or disagreed with the report. The player would be reprimanded if the majority of people reading their case voted agree with report. Then the admins would determine the type of punishments.

When I first started playing league of legends I remember the tribunal was one of my favorite things to participate in. It allowed me to see the result of reporting toxic players. I enjoyed being able to participate in making the decision on whether behaviors were toxic or not. It gave me hope that reporting a toxic player at the end of a game actually meant something. However, now I do not get to see that result directly.

For the past 3 years it seems like the tribunal has been in a constant state of maintenance. Is there ever going to be an opportunity were the community is able to participate in tribunal again or not because the link at the bottom of the website has constantly given me false hope.

What do you all think? Do you want to see the Tribunal return for the community?

EDIT : This has nothing to do with the Singed Support smite thing. I actually didn't learn about that until after I posted this. This is just about Tribunal by itself.

23 Comments

Awkward Couch11/18/2016, 6:27:45 PM2 votes

The old Tribunal was just awful. More often than not people would just click punish and get it right at least 75% of the time. Not to mention players would get punished for cases that happened months previous.

The latest information that we have is this comment from Ghostcrawler.

Desolas Arterius11/18/2016, 6:22:56 PM1 votes

To be honest, the Tribunal wasn't that effective. It was great in terms of letting people feel like they were being actual contributors when it came to player behavior, but the success rate and problems it had weren't that effective.

It took forever for a case to finally get reviewed and finished towards that player being judged. Sometimes even weeks or months after the incident they were reported for. There weren't reform cards, so the majority of the time players had no idea what they were being reported on.

Not only was time a huge issue, but IP farmers were also an issue. Players could just auto press "Guilty" and receive IP without even reading the logs or making an accurate judgement. This would cause players who didn't actually deserve punishment to get punished since enough players would spam the Tribunal by banning just to get free IP.

There were so many false cases and issues with the Tribunal that I'm glad Riot put it on hiatus until they improve it. What we have now, the Instant Feedback System, is actually much better success wise than the Tribunal ever could be. There are barely any errors when it comes to punishing the wrong player, and it helps weed out false reports towards players that didn't break the ToS or Summoner's code. Since there's no free IP out of it either, players can't farm by reporting everyone and screwing with the statistics.

However, IFS does have issues with visibility and letting players feel like they're actually helping and contributing. Which is something Riot has said they want to look into whenever they revamp the Tribunal.

But for now, the old Tribunal will not be coming back, and I'm actually okay with that.

Octavia11/18/2016, 6:07:07 PM1 votes

wish we could still see the old cases, one I got from some tryndamere was so fucking good, it was TT and he was counting every time someone "killstole" from him, he just kept saying things like "1 2 3 4 TIME FUKEN KS ME BASTARD LUX BASTARD ASHE REPORT BASTARD ASHE 1 2 3 4 5 TIMES KS"

pls let me see that case again riot

Azure Hamster11/18/2016, 6:40:51 PM1 votes

My guess is they used data from the tribunal to help train an AI to recognize what was going on in the games.

Caitlyn

MUSHROOM MIDGET11/18/2016, 7:11:11 PM1 votes

tribunal seems like it would be fun. but as i understand it they removed it in part because the majority of players were just clicking punish no matter what because it is funny to see people get punished. and the less they deserve it the funnier it is.

Kei14311/18/2016, 7:56:25 PM1 votes

tribunal 2.0 coming soon™. after the client is pass its beta phase and running smoothly.

Demonicous11/18/2016, 6:37:55 PM1 votes

If the Tribunal was such a horrible system, then why are people getting warnings for perma-bans for playing Support Singed? I watched this players game play and they never double jungled... they occasionally roamed but stuck with their ADC early and mid game. The admins are wrong in this case for once. The Tribunal offered the admins some corroboration to their judgment.

Currently Tyler1 still plays LoL even though he was supposed to be perma-banned. Just this week he posted a video of him playing against Phreak. Oh yeah this current system is working just fine.

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