The best anti-troll system

SuicideAw·12/20/2017, 3:50:50 AM·1 votes·1,360 views

Winner plays again!

Loser has to take a break.

How I think it would look for League:

  1. Win a ranked game and you can immediately que for another ranked game.
  2. Lose a ranked game and you are temporarily locked out of ranked que.
  3. Win a normal draft game and your ranked que will become available.
  4. Lose a normal draft game and you are still temporarily locked out of ranked que.

Some interesting aspects: This system creates clear intentions. You go to ranked and draft for competition. You go to the other modes for casual entertainment. In current League, there is no designated "practice". This results in a mixture of attitudes. Some casual people and some competitive people on the same team. The casuals get annoyed at the "try hards" and the competitive get annoyed at the "bronzes".

This system puts emphasis on winning the game. It also discourages losing the game. It is important to do both. You want to dissuade people from losing on purpose. You also want to reward people for expressing skill.

Trolling can not be completely eradicated. Ranked ques will experience less trolls overall. Trolls naturally lose more games. In order for a troll to continually troll ranked games, they would have to win normal games. This system just created a positive experience for normal games. It also reduced the amount of impact the troll can possibly have on ranked ques by forcing them to win in a different mode first. Less possible chances to troll ranked.

EDIT: You gunna hafta trust me Rito. This is a million times easier than trying to make algorithms to detect intentional feeders.

49 Comments

Jo0o12/20/2017, 3:55:18 AM8 votes

Seems like it'd seriously punish folks that don't play a lot of games at once, or that want to play with friends. If I'm trying to queue up with my buddy, or buddies for Flex, we'd all need to make sure we win a normal game first. And if we lose our first normal of the night, that might preclude us from playing ranked.

Fiddling around with access to ranked like that, in other words, would drastically reduce participation in ranked. I don't think that's healthy for the game.

zPOOPz12/20/2017, 4:12:00 AM3 votes

No. You'll just transfer the trolls and ragers onto normal. Losing is a normal part of the game and we don't need it as a condition for not being able to play any particular game mode.

I remember Rito once tried locking people out of ranked and forcing them to play a certain amount of games in normal draft before they can queue up for ranked again. It created an ungodly amount of toxicity in normal. This is almost the same and it punishes non-troll as well.

TheDirtyDidler12/20/2017, 10:16:26 PM3 votes

this has got to be the stupidest thing ive have EVER in my ENTIRE life have ever read and u should probably never write a discussion ever again

HalcyonDweller12/20/2017, 10:03:56 PM2 votes

Your heart is in the right place, but this implementation is a bit too heavy-handed with forcing players to do something they don't want to do. I would be worried about it making a lot of perfectly reasonable players quit league simply because they are being punished for something that other people ruined.

MythPuppy12/21/2017, 8:39:56 AM2 votes

I don't get why people have to point out to you why this idea is bad. Seems pretty obvious.

General Esdeath 12/20/2017, 11:08:00 AM1 votes

And then people start trolling/inting to lock people out of ranked

xXPeterNorthXx12/20/2017, 5:48:58 AM1 votes

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Absoluence12/21/2017, 2:39:46 AM1 votes

LOL at your ratings.

EL HAMSTERO12/22/2017, 4:35:02 AM1 votes

trolls don't lose more games. you should look into how matchmaking works. everyone wins around 50% including trolls.

Harry Dresden12/20/2017, 2:58:43 PM1 votes

And what about the people like me who almost exclusively play draft norms? I'll have the same problem that ranked gives me now, already angry people getting mad at me being I'm not try Harding to get back into ranked. I'm just trying to play a game.