Toxic Lobbies. Solution: Lobby Abort Vote?

FoaminBruh·10/11/2018, 4:08:03 PM·8 votes·3,207 views

I just dodged a ranked game... Starts out with one person banning another person's "declared champion".

(paraphrasing)

Person B: Why did you do that?

Person A: Because you were a @*#$ last game.

Person B: (sarcasm) Well, you're going to LOVE me now.

Person A: Go ahead and feed. IDC..

Me: Squash it, dodge, or speak up, so the rest of us can avoid your toxic trash.

Person B: (locks in Annie Jungle) I'm going to enjoy this.

Me: (dodges last sec)

Yet I have no way of reporting this unless I suffer through the game which is almost guaranteed to be a loss and more importantly unenjoyable. I do recognize that dodging is obviously an option, and if infrequent enough, is not overly punishing. It just feels bad that it's the ONLY thing that can be done currently. It would be nice if there was a way to start a vote to abort a lobby and then report negative behavior then and there.

EDIT: Adding this idea from Jo0o up here, so people don't miss it. I like his idea better than mine, and several people have pointed out how a vote could be misused.

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Cue the “please start vote kick for X” calls in champ select, not healthy for team cohesion.

Ultimately, I think the best course to take is simply adding a report function in champ select. A five-minute dodge timer isn’t a big deal. Maybe implement dodge LP loss forgiveness if the report results in action, though that might shine more light on the inner workings than Riot is comfortable with...

16 Comments

Jo0o10/11/2018, 4:13:14 PM6 votes

I’d love this, but a system is only as good as the worst way it can be abused. Lobby vote-kick opens up premade toxicity potential, and will drastically reduce the ability of players to go off-meta. Plus, a failed vote would put team morale in a terrible spot right at the start of the game.

Telephone Booth10/11/2018, 10:36:53 PM2 votes

Yeah I know. That shit in lobbies is a real soul-killer. Like, wow, these petty fucking kids are actually serious. Its shocking how petty people are. But a lobby vote, imo, would just add more opportunities to be petty and for kids to make up excuses to justify being complete douchebags. Like if the vote fails 2/3, then they think theyre suddenly "being held hostage" and now they are free to show their frustration and do whatever they want because its "not their fault someone voted no to abort lobby".

Edit: ahhh i didnt read through the discussion, only the OP. I agree Joo's solution may be better.

OniZetsu66610/11/2018, 4:25:56 PM1 votes

Shit like this doesn't happen often but at the same time when it does...its fucking hell. Something needs to be done.

TrulyBland10/11/2018, 5:05:07 PM1 votes

How would you prevent people from simply abandoning a game where they were outpicked? I mean… to put this into a really extreme perspective: If this was implemented, there would no longer be any point to picking or banning a champion that nobody wants to play against.

Danksley10/12/2018, 4:07:22 AM1 votes

Make it require 4 people. 3 if there's a duo.

PurpleYukari10/11/2018, 4:29:49 PM1 votes

I heard that Riot will manually investigate players that have a high % of dodged games on their record, to check for this kind of behavior.

Shukr4n10/11/2018, 4:22:45 PM1 votes

how many votes to trigger it?

those 2 kids were already 40% of votes and i assume riot wont give u chance to dodje with 3 favorable votes.

hence they can cage u, troll u and torture you.