RIOT needs to make bad behavior publicly available in player profile

Cornerstone1·7/27/2017, 1:55:56 PM·4 votes·326 views

In real life, most every criminal behavior from speeding tickets to murder are publicly available for anyone to see. Our town paper even lists people who had any type of court fine.

When I got my first speeding ticket, it wasn’t the money to pay the fine that I was worried about, it was having my name published in the paper that horrified me.

One of the problems of poor behavior on the internet is anonymity. Publicly displaying people’s list of all punishment/warnings might deter some people from being jerks. Even if it doesn’t reduce toxicity, making people publicly accountable for their poor behavior has very few downsides.

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SecondAirbane7/27/2017, 1:57:37 PM7 votes

this isnt the real world though this is literally a VIDEO GAME

ModPeriscope7/27/2017, 3:40:24 PM5 votes

If a player has a punishment history, then they should be afforded the opportunity to reform. If this information were publically available, then there is the potential for other players to have a negative bias toward that player when matched with him. This would definitely negatively impact that player's experience, and likely those in the game.

RallerenP7/27/2017, 2:19:14 PM2 votes

In real life, most every criminal behavior from speeding tickets to murder are publicly available for anyone to see. Our town paper even lists people who had any type of court fine.

That is just not true. In all of EU that information is scritcly kept away from the public, and in some parts of America you have to pay a fee, and state a reason for why you need access to that info.

Show me some non-anecdotal evidence that showing this information publicly would deter people from being toxic, so much that it's worth sacrificing the privacy of those trying to reform. By showing that data you introduce bias to whoever sees it, and should they be in the same game that bias will intentionally or unintentionally show in a (probably) negative manner.

Dragfin7/27/2017, 2:40:14 PM2 votes

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In real life, most every criminal behavior from speeding tickets to murder are publicly available for anyone to see. Our town paper even lists people who had any type of court fine.

When I got my first speeding ticket, it wasn’t the money to pay the fine that I was worried about, it was having my name published in the paper that horrified me.

One of the problems of poor behavior on the internet is anonymity. Publicly displaying people’s list of all punishment/warnings might deter some people from being jerks. Even if it doesn’t reduce toxicity, making people publicly accountable for their poor behavior has very few downsides.

It's rare, but good leadership will hold people accountable. You have good leadership in your city. What they do acts as a deterrent or a preventive measure. Ignorant people don't understand that and spout stupid excuses as to why they wouldn't do this. We have many ignorant people in leadership positions these days who lack the balls to hold people accountable for their actions. It don't matter if it's a video game. The actions of many players are disrupting those that don't do these negative things. But, we live in a society where the majority will not hold people accountable and that's why we have to deal with BS like this. It's not going to change so we have to deal with it. A largely passive society that lacks intelligence, discipline and integrity is the sole blame.

Kei1437/27/2017, 2:06:40 PM2 votes

which hunts happen alot more on the internet than real life due to anoniminty.

The harassment caused by it isn't something Riot endorses.

Scary Door7/27/2017, 8:36:15 PM1 votes

Riot used to show the number of "leaves" you had in a game. Blizzard used to do the same with the Original StarCraft. Your record would show Wins/Losses/Leaves (Disconnects). I honestly don't know why they stopped showing that information, it's unfortunate. I'd love to know if someone has a history of leaving games when I get into a ranked lobby with them (or any lobby for that matter).

Blutseuche7/29/2017, 2:01:06 PM1 votes

Witch hunting is a bad thing.