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[Suggestion] Let's Lower Toxicity - Mentor Program

Prosfis·3/10/2018, 3:38:37 PM·14 votes·705 views

I recently created a new account, because most of the players I used to play with have stopped playing, and it is harder to find new positive players past level 30. I've also found that the remaining players on my friends list have become bitter, and like to call other players out in game.

During my playtime in levels 1-5 I noticed an increase in positive and friendly players who were willing to learn and cooperate as a team. Now that I've hit level 10, I see toxic players in most of my games. I fear that the lower levels are filled with toxic smurfs, who drive away new anti-toxic players.

What I propose we do is have a mentor program for players with high honor levels. You can volunteer to play with low level players with the goal of creating a welcoming learning environment. Mentors should do their best to help both teams grow in a non-condescending way. Mentors should be identified to the team(s) before play, so that other players know the mentor's responsibilities. This would encourage listening to advice, and reporting misconduct. Examples of good mentor behavior would be informing an opponent of ability information such as how to avoid Illaoi's curse, teaching a player to focus on last hitting over auto attacking, commending players for good plays and good behavior, discouraging insults and anger, and any other information that one can offer up after years of playing a game with a lot of content.

What would hopefully come out of this for the mentors is new friendships, and a strong sense of improving the League of Legends community. New players should hopefully feel welcomed, and gain friends that will help them throughout their journey through the ranks of League. This effort may encourage new, friendly players to continue playing league for longer, which will improve the overall atmosphere in league.

20 Comments

exitforever3/10/2018, 4:08:36 PM4 votes

Upvoted

Imperial Pandaa3/10/2018, 4:23:07 PM2 votes

But here is the real question.

What is the incentive for being a mentor?

Unless there is something worthwhile, I don't see it being too big. Like maybe a skin line and Mentor Levels. After a game a small pop up comes up. "Did you find the mentor helpful?" After x amount of stars or yes's you gain a mentor level (start at 0). If you get mentor level 1 and keep it to the end of the season you get a Scholar/Mentor skin. If level 2, maybe a skin and a ward skin. (or two scholar/mentor skins).

C3st La Vi33/10/2018, 8:30:27 PM1 votes

Riot is way too harsh with their judgement and it seems all the feeding or selfish trolls who deserves to get banned gets their ways, if you don't review the gameplay how do you know if the player is playing to win or trolling? trolling is way more annoying than people who has an opinion, that's why there's a mute button isn't it? So why do people even get banned for what they say? Honestly, people are way too sensitive, imagine a society where people can be excluded (or maybe killed/banned permanently for what they say), o yea those society only exists in the dark ages or maybe North Korea. Can't we just stop banning and play the game? Riot management are some of the most toxic communities I've seen. I hope the rioters gets judged the way they do to others. I don't think you deserve to be banned, goodluck though because Riot probably don't care about you or what you think.

Awf Meta3/11/2018, 12:35:45 AM1 votes

I would want the mentors to be held to a higher standard than the general public.

DJOKER3/11/2018, 12:49:17 AM1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn] Came for the comments.

FurriesAreHot3/11/2018, 5:21:00 AM1 votes

This could go very wrong. I’d wager 85% I’d users who receive a toxicity related 14 day ban are unlikely to change their ways.

Ifneth3/11/2018, 3:59:03 PM1 votes

Riot should continue what they were doing with Honor rewards. Maybe they should build detailed, interactive, multimedia guides into the client, showing how to climb Honor ratings to encourage people to do specific kinds of thing.

E.g., Climb from Level 1 to Level 2 by almost never breaking the rules, even if you’re not caught and punished.

GripaAviara3/11/2018, 10:16:53 PM1 votes

You can't fucking lower toxicity with this piece of shiet matchmaking system. I'm doing everything to fucking stay calm and it works, until the game decides to matchmake with feeders or the skill difference is insane in a row essentially making the game unwinable by start. Every sane person will crack when this shiet happens so often

rtbf2451455543/12/2018, 5:02:32 PM1 votes

So, I'm new. Actually new, as of a month ago. Not a smurf. I play a bit better than your normal brand new person because I played HotS before risking League. Here's my new person hot take on the idea.

I wouldn't trust these "mentors" any more than the regular randoms. This would be interpreted as "Riot approved good person" in a heartbeat, and the first instance of someone abusing that trust would wreck it all. Probably make it worse than before.

The real problem is that hitting the Find Match button obligates you to not only stick around some pretty horribly uncomfortable people and situations for 30-50 minutes (or more with the worst people) or else risk being punished, but forces you to assist the abusers enough to not get punished for inting. Now sure, the punishment starts out small, but the psychological tools Riot uses to try and dissuade the assholes from needing to be punished in the first place work really well on people who are fall prey to the psychological tricks of the abusers. You might blithely agree to whatever in the "I agree to never leave a game again" dialogue box, or shrug off the low priority queue as cost of doing business, but I'm here to tell you that plenty do not.

Even if you mute, that doesn't stop the player from griefing, sometimes very obviously and personally even without text, and you know the jerk is there slagging you off behind the mute wall. It's very easy to say "ignore it, focus on what you're doing and learning your champion" but it is an entirely different thing to be in the shoes of someone suffering that abuse. I've played quite a number of games in my month of playing, and can ignore scumbags after a mute, and even I have to ask myself whether it's worth the risk every single time I decide to hit the button. At least once a day I have been forced to admit that I made the wrong call before I even get past champion select.

Not that Riot should alter the LeaverBuster rules at all. They are in an insoluble position. Any grace they give will be abused instantly. But this game was so bad for so long that Riot was forced into making rules that require newbies to suffer abuse or find another game. No mentorship program is going to get around that fact, and it makes it impossble for me to recommend that any of my friends play. I'm too embarrassed to even admit that I play.