I seriously typed a huge long message, accidentally hit the back button (button 4) on my mouse and erased it all. sob
Roxic is up to interpretation on a game by game basis, Kid is a term I could use in 1 game and not be reported for it and therefore it isnt toxic, then i use it in the next game and it is offensive so i get reported and suddenly its toxic and punishable. I'm 25 years old and been gaming as long as I can remember. MMOs, MOBAs, FPS, console, pc you name it. I've never been warned, chat restricted, or banned in any other game ever on any platform for any reason. I've played Counter strike 1.3 all the way to CS:GO, I've played DOTA, League, HoN, HoTS, WoW since vanilla, you name it. Never been punished or warned EVER.
League has a pandemic going on in it where I swear to you 4/5 games end with "Report so in so for such and such" Riot (pardon the pun) has created a monster, and its getting insanely out of control. I see people getting reported more often than not in league matches.
1/7 <-- you inted and you need to be reported
Didn't group when I said <-- you grief'ed the team
Didn't talk out of fear of hurting someones feelings / rcv'ing another ban <--- Negative attitude
Those are reports I see happen all the time in mid to high gold. this is getting insane, and yeah you can say if you dont do anything toxic then you're fine... but toxic is clearly up to interpretation and that's the real issue I have. I'm not trying to flame you, attack your beliefs, or anything like that. I'm voicing my opinion, and it is that this community has basically decided that if they lose a game or something doesn't go their way, then something toxic or negative had to of happened... and therefore someone has to be reported because it's someone else's fault. Frankly I was probably reported in that game for the three most common report check boxes 1. Negative Attitude, 2. Verbal Abuse, 3. Intentionally feeding. When in reality I did MAYBE one. and that is Negative Attitude towards a teammate I didn't like and didn't agree with.
You need to not be able to spam report every single game, if riot took people's ability to report 9 players for 3 categories every game away, and made it something reasonable... people would actually use the report system correctly, for things that actually offend them, or for real problems. Riot has already stated, you can report as many people as you want and it will never make your reports mean less. so if you want to clean up the community, report all 9 players after every game and eventually someone will do something toxic, get in trouble, and bam you've now solved the problem with the community. The issue is I talk, and I got reported for a very minor offense, but sadly I've been caught for a few very minor offenses lately as the community has been spiraling back to the report report report phase, and I've gotten caught up in it and so have many others.
Love the game, hell I even love a lot of the community. I just hate how Riot places so much emphases on reporting people. They even give positive feedback when you get someone in trouble lol. <--- extremely unnecessary. You don't go to the principle at the school and tell them Tommy was being bad, and then they come back to you and go "Good job Jim, here's a reward for your good call on telling on Tommy."
Sorry Riot, love your game... been playing it for a long long time, not a fan of how you push the punishment system, and how you pat everyone on the back when they report people. just makes people want to report people more often so they get that little pat on the head.