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The intentional feeding detection system is complete garbage

Thumpin·5/14/2016, 2:36:53 AM·9 votes·2,494 views

Observe as an ex-pro, season 1 player feeds his ass off on stream. Of course he got banned 25 minutes after this video was posted (https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/4j8oq5/therainman_banned_25_minutes_after_the_reddit_post/), but here's the thing: why does a video of this guy feeding have to make it to the front page of reddit before he got banned? For those of you who don't know, Rain Man is the former top laner of TSM from back in season 1 and early season 2. He was known even back then for intentionally feeding, going afk, and other trolling activities on his STREAM. He didn't even need to hide his behaviour but it took him until season 6 to be permabanned, and there's plenty of evidence in the linked threads to show just how much he was trolling even in recent seasons.

I've reported countless players for intentionally feeding in my games, and have recieved maybe 2 notifications of such behavior being punished. Why is that? In my most recent game I had a Tryndamere doing his best Rain Man impression, built nothing but vamp scepters until he had enough gold to upgrade those, constantly went afk, and every time he actually was playing the game he was running straight into the enemy team. Why do I have no faith that I'll receive a notification of his ban? Because he probably wont get banned. He didn't curse, didn't make hate-remarks, in fact he hardly talked at all. But if you take one look at the match history, look at damage dealt, build order, and number of deaths it's incredibly obvious what's going on.

Let me remind you that Tyler1 did not get a real permaban until he became famous thanks to reddit threads. I'm 100% convinced that if he hadn't gotten famous he would never get ban-on-sight status, and I'll say the same for the recent banning of Rain Man.

23 Comments

Jamaree5/14/2016, 2:54:52 AM4 votes

Likely because most of the people who intentionally feed don't do it every game, thus don't get banned.

Lycanoon5/14/2016, 2:50:17 AM3 votes

Do you know why he got banned? Feeding + Grieving + being a troll.

If he didn't post the video, he more than likely woulda never received the ban.

Rand0mH3r0X5/14/2016, 3:06:58 AM2 votes

A famous streamer represents the game by playing it. A representation that Riot doesn't want to be associated with. Sort of like kicking out a customer from a restaurant for behavior (or more commonly spRace).

Hethalean5/14/2016, 2:58:25 AM2 votes

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Let me remind you that Tyler1 did not get a real permaban until he became famous thanks to reddit threads. I'm 100% convinced that if he hadn't gotten famous he would never get ban-on-sight status, and I'll say the same for the recent banning of Rain Man.

Perhaps because having a highly popular streamer being famous for trolling and toxicity sets an extremely bad example and could hurt the games image. Monkey see monkey do.

LC Nightrider5/14/2016, 4:42:06 PM2 votes

The amount of misinformation is ridiculous nowadays, people claiming they know how the report system works, and leaverbuster, or whatever kind of countermeasure we have nowadays:

Let me make it real clear for everyone to be able to understand.

You will never, ever, ever, truly know how their systems function... EVER!

Besides, we don't have an automatic system to detect feeders. Even saying there is one, sounds extremely ridiculous... To be fair with you, if there were such a system, everyone who is bronze, and silver, that will never get beyond gold, would be banned.

This is not a matter of if they are, but when they are. Because you can have, really, really bad games, where people will not surrender, even in a 60 minute game, where you juggle back and forth... You know you lost man, just, surrender and join matchup for another one...

JesusShouldofGAd5/17/2016, 8:45:35 PM1 votes

there is no system for intentionally feeding the system is designed based on continuous reports of similar things....so if you get reported multiple games for the same thing...and tribunal reviews the game..you get that ban....the only automated system i see is the afk system which auto punishes you.

Çhåryzård5/15/2016, 4:51:54 AM1 votes

Not getting the 'so and so has been punished message' more does not mean it isn't working. You only get that message if you are the person to get them punished. Like, your report is the final report.

However, I would like this changed. Hearing more that someone was punished would give me more faith, even if I wasn't the final report I still contributed and would like to know that they were eventually punished. Reporting and then never hearing anything is kinda annoying, especially if the reported was really bad. You just kinda report and then never know if the person got what they deserved or not

Lycanoon5/14/2016, 2:54:43 AM1 votes

There's a lot wrong with the system right now anyway.

Dodgers don't get banned at all for repeat offenses...and this ALWAYS happens during Rotations... A co-worker of mine is a frequent dodger...and he's yet to be banned.