So... Where are bans at?

Rajin Kajin ·11/24/2016, 12:05:23 AM·2 votes·635 views

I'm fairly new to league. I started June-ish. Because of that, I'm used to being wrong or not understanding something. Reports are no exception. I used to report every bannable offense, but stopped when I never received any notification that punishment had been given. Now that I've started playing ranked, I have met some EXTREMELY toxic players and have started reporting again because of it. I have never received any notification, even though these people are so incredibly toxic I could barely play with them. Feeders, flamers, etc. What's happening? Are punishments not being given, are notifications not a thing anymore, or are they actually being determined as safe players? Keep in mind that I'm relatively new, so I have no idea how this stuff works. Thanks guys.

9 Comments

venomous frost11/24/2016, 12:29:05 AM3 votes

You only get a notification if your report trigged the punishment

That means if you are one of the 10 reports, but not the final one, you won't get a message.

Wonderlands11/24/2016, 12:08:54 AM2 votes

"I used to report every bannable offense"

My guess is that you wasted your reports on too many softies and the system is just ignoring you because you report everything. I've reported extremely toxic homophobes/racist and I've gotten the notification the next day

Morality Coach11/24/2016, 12:18:53 AM2 votes

You gotta say f*****t or n****r 2 times and rant for 50 lines to get that for sure insta chat ban.

Most toxic stuff takes a lot of reports and you won't see that message much.

Weathered11/24/2016, 12:39:18 AM2 votes

Your report is only part of their journey to being punished, and unfortunately if you weren't the final straw of that line of reports that triggered the ban (you may have been the report prior) you won't get the notification. Regardless, your report still is carrying the same weight.

Kei14311/24/2016, 12:53:12 AM2 votes

cos its based on consistency x toxicity.

If they are constantly mildly toxic, they'll get banned over a bunch of games. I'm gonna use 25 games as an example here. So 25 consecutive games of mild toxicity = punishment.

If the toxicity is more sevre, then it'll take less games. So lets say .. 10 games of mid-toxicity = punishment.

When you reported them, maybe they were on their 3rd game, on their 8th game, even on their 9th game, thus they didn't get punished yet.

Unless your game was the one that punished them, the system won't notify you of when they are punished, thus the chances of you SEEING that they got punished is pretty low. Doesn't mean that they don't get punished when they have hit their own punishment threshold.

Also FYI on the side, mass reports doesn't increase the chances of someone getting punished. So 1 report = 9 reports. It all does the same thing; it flags the system to check for toxicity. So there is no need to ask for reports (and asking for reports is considered a harassment).

Due to how the system works right now, the visibility on the behavioral is pretty low and alot of people are like you and feel like the report system doesn't do anything, thus they stop reporting, which ends up letting some trolls / toxic get away with their behavior.

That being said, Riot is working on behavioral visibility features and will release them probably after the new client is up and running smoothly. I'm hoping we get something like this.

MUSHROOM MIDGET11/24/2016, 1:57:39 PM1 votes

a lot of players just get in a bad mood for a game or two and then the other 95% of the time they are good teammates. they dont want ot ban people every time they get in a bad mood