Riot: Should you be rewarding required positive behavior?

The Highest Noon·7/11/2017, 4:04:13 AM·2 votes·468 views

The honor system is great--it gives us the personal opportunity to show our support for a person's positive demeanor within a game. Issues come when you are practically paying someone to follow the rules. Is that a good thing on Riot's part? Ethical issues aside, I'm seeing people who refuse to communicate because they think it'll get them a "staying cool" honor. There are people barking orders without listening to others because they think it'll get them "shot-calling" honor. I just logged in to get a key fragment for whatever honors I received whenever, which is nice and all but honestly I think it's better in the long run if we AREN'T PAID TO FOLLOW THE RULES. Yes, not being toxic is a rule. Yes, communication is a rule.

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YourQQ7/11/2017, 6:40:20 AM4 votes

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The honor system is great--it gives us the personal opportunity to show our support for a person's positive demeanor within a game. Issues come when you are practically paying someone to follow the rules. Is that a good thing on Riot's part? Ethical issues aside, I'm seeing people who refuse to communicate because they think it'll get them a "staying cool" honor. There are people barking orders without listening to others because they think it'll get them "shot-calling" honor. I just logged in to get a key fragment for whatever honors I received whenever, which is nice and all but honestly I think it's better in the long run if we AREN'T PAID TO FOLLOW THE RULES. Yes, not being toxic is a rule. Yes, communication is a rule.

You're reading way too much into it and think it's the system. Those players existed before the system. It's your perception that changed. Also, I found that many people interpret someone making a call without wasting time typing "would you please" etc. as "barking orders." This isn't a dinner party. It's a competitive game and you're making way too many assumptions about people's intention.

Imperial Pandaa7/11/2017, 4:33:31 AM2 votes

I believe this is a classic example of positive reinforcement. Someone you are teaching/training doing well? Reward them.

Is it required? No. Does it help? In my opinion/experience, somewhat. I haven't personally had any of your examples, which is why I say somewhat. Just by having the honor screen immediately come up helps promote giving honor to someone.

Should you be punishing people for negative behavior? That is negative reinforcement. In this case it is usually in a progression system unless severe.

So why only use negative? Use both! :)