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"quality of life" changes to player behavior and matchmaking that would reduce toxicity

scazzman·1/20/2018, 1:34:04 AM·3 votes·683 views

i feel like riot is just applying bandaid solutions to toxicity without addressing root issues, and in some cases making it worse, a few suggestions for riot i have are

  1. Eliminate allchat for ranked games completely, and restrict it in normals to players honor 1 and above

  2. for ranked games. disable autofill for olympic elo only

  3. if you report a player. make it so you are protected from being matched with them again for ONE GAME ONLY. this will prevent abuse in high elo. but mitigate the tilt factor of " i reported this guy, why is he on my team again"

  4. allow both teams 30 seconds to vote to "unban" a single champion after bans go through FOR THEIR TEAM ONLY. this adds a strategic element to games. and allows players the ability to unban a troll ban

  5. rework the mute button. add a new chat command. /mutedby, this lets people know who has them muted. as well as whether they have pings muted as well. this takes away the guesswork of figuring out whether someone muted you, reducing people getting frustrated by typing to the air without knowing it. also, disable the use of /mute all before minute 5. and fullmute all before minute 10. and allow players to mute 2 players chat and 2 players pings. this encourages people to mute as needed as opposed to preemptively muting their entire team.

  6. implement a system to discourage report baiting, or revenge reporting. even if retaliation isnt okay. intentionally trying to get other players banned isnt either. there are a few ways riot could do this without simply allowing players to retaliate. i think the main problem is there is ZERO penalty for false or petty reporting.

  7. reimplement the tribunal for gameplay offenses in tandem with the IFS and manual reviews by riot.

how it would work. step 1. IFS scans for chat. step 2. IFS scans for blatantly obvious trolling. Step 3. Riot manually reviews x cases per day "whatever they do currently" Step 4. a certain number of unreviewed reports for gameplay offenses are sent to the tribunal, with replay data

13 Comments

Xidphel1/20/2018, 1:56:05 AM4 votes

step 2. IFS scans for blatantly obvious trolling.

Good luck with that.

Telephone Booth1/20/2018, 5:36:37 AM2 votes

Let's see... 1 you can already disable all chat. 2 can't really speak on that as a silver scrub. 3 meh, don't care either way, go for it. 4 nah, champ select phase is long enough and I don't want my counter pick unbanned. 5 sure. But I don't mind toxic players raging to the air. 6 not sure I understand the point or meaning behind it. 7 I wasn't around during the tribunal so I don't know how well it worked. I dont know if i like the idea of unknown strangers judging others. There would have to be a strict application process, imo. And even then, since it's all online, I'd think it'd be pretty easy to give false information, with no fear of legal repercussions.

The JigSAW1/20/2018, 1:53:46 PM1 votes

Riot:

Put this guy in charge of your player behavior department.

BubblyRainbows1/23/2018, 12:52:11 AM1 votes

You had my support until the "prevent /muteall before 5 minutes" part. I mute all every game. And it has made this game 1,000 times more enjoyable. If they instituted a delay on muting all, I'd stop playing. I don't care what anyone has to say. Chat is NEVER, EVER used for anything positive anyway.