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Is reporting players who troll and/or intentionally feed legitimately counterproductive?

Tempist·2/16/2018, 11:41:03 AM·2 votes·411 views

From my understanding, Riot has a system in place to minimize the impact from players who spam false reports. Every report carries a certain score or weight, and those players who create too many false ones end up having reports that essentially count for nothing.

Now, whatever Riot's intentions, their algorithms for finding legitimate trolls and feeders are pretty awful. While some players are caught, there are far too many posts on these boards and reddit of horror stories with players having 200+ games of incredibly obvious trolling for me to believe Riot actually bans any sort of statistically meaningful number of them. I mean, if they can't catch the blatantly obvious, what are the odds that more subtle and random trolls are ever found?

With that being the case, if a player trolls in your games, should you even report them in the first place, instead of stuff that's probably easier for Riot to police? Considering how very few of them are caught, I'm actually wondering if reporting them doesn't actually lower your report score/weight in the majority of cases? [slayer-jinx-unamused]

6 Comments

Sarutobi2/16/2018, 11:49:37 AM4 votes

Actually with the Instant Feedback system our weight in reports are no longer there. They changed the system of how reports works. Now all a report actual does is review the game/case, if they see that you broke the rules of which you were reported in, it will punish you. The system is still lenient. So with punishments like feeding/trolling, they will usually throw a "bad game" as an excuse. This is why it needs to be consistent and frequent. Only then will the system see it as a problem and finally punish them!

AJStarhiker2/16/2018, 11:46:35 AM2 votes

They got rid of report weight a while ago. So, if you see trolling, report it.

flumptydump2/16/2018, 6:25:16 PM1 votes

man if only there were some sort of mechanic where the community could review reports and a system where justice actually happens...some kind of tribunal...oh wait...