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A possible solution to the "reporting" system

Dying Love·4/28/2019, 12:56:44 AM·2 votes·2,619 views

I don't post much on boards. Honestly I'm too busy trying to get better at the game and get out of bronze. As i was playing another "typical" bronze game, I had a sudden thought. People always report because of feeders, trolls, afks, and just people being dicks. How much of those reports are actually true (according to RIOT). How many people are just literally having a bad game? Going afk because you dog knocked over your router, is completely different than going afk cause you 0-9 and want out, or because you just said screw this game. If you truly trying but still getting beat, does that mean you are int, or just getting beat? Then at the end everyone wants to point fingers and start reporting every. I'm guilty of this and probably most of y'all as well. However, what if RIOT start punishing players who constantly report players for really no good reason? Think about it? We want RIOT to deal with afks, trolls, nasty attitudes, and of course feeders, but it's hard to do that when they really don't know who is who? Imagine everyone calling the cops reporting crimes, and 85% of them are just bogus? To me that's exactly what the reporting system is. If RIOT start punishing people for making false reports, maybe people will start taking their reports more seriously and stop dishing out reports to people just for getting their ass handed to them. It's just a thought. and if anyone in the vast land of chat boards read this please feel free to chime in, or even suggest ways why this may or may not work. It probably may not and could be a dead awful idea, but it's worth a thought I guess.

I'm also going to upvote this to get the ball going. Thanks for taking time to read this.

EDIT: I should have titled this " A possible solution to false reporting". I'm sorry if the title is misleading.

27 Comments

GatekeeperTDS4/28/2019, 1:11:52 AM6 votes

but it's hard to do that when they really don't know who is who

Yes they do. Please don't think of the IFS as some pile of shit running on an IBM mainframe from 1986. There's a lot that goes into a system like this, which is why we don't ever hear anything from people who have been punished incorrectly. There is absolutely no reason to punish people for "false" reports, as the system throws out false reports.

If you're 10/2/6 and I report you for intentionally feeding at the end of the game, who have I harmed? Even moreso - if even one of your two deaths was intentional, then I haven't falsely reported you. Discouraging people from reporting due to a fear of being punished if their reports weren't "true" isn't a slope you want to slide down.

EDIT: You didn't really even state what problem you were trying to solve with the "reporting" system. False reports? Those don't harm players, and they're not going to break Riot's system.

Kei1434/28/2019, 2:03:23 AM4 votes

The solution to false reporting is better education on what is and isn't punishable. On top of that people need to know that false reports won't get people punished.

The solution to report rallying is better education that 1 report = 9 reports and every report gets reviewed.

TheXXXorcist4/28/2019, 1:05:38 AM2 votes

https://youtu.be/Wlj61KuApi8

GoldsmithSmarty4/28/2019, 2:41:16 AM1 votes

It is very hard for Riot to tell which report is false. Better solution is to have a limited amount of reports you can send. Dota 2 used to have like 3 reports available in so many games. That makes you keep them to an occasion that warrants it. Perfect solution. Riot doesn't really care about the community. Only money. As far as they are concerned, we can drown in toxicity here, if Skins sales are growing, nothing to worry about.

Icy Hot Shoto4/28/2019, 8:47:52 PM1 votes

Someone goes 13/5/5. You watch as, for all 5 deaths, they literally ran it down their lane and let the enemy kill them before finally bothering to actually play the game. Do you now not report that, because of the chance that even though they did indeed int 5 kills, you'll get punished because they started to actually play the game after that?

Punishing people for false reports will 100% lead to less reports. A lot of people are gonna see something that's barely crossing the line that makes it reportable, and not report it because there's too big a risk they'll be punished instead. Heck, I had someone last night literally threaten to int because they rerolled a champ and I took said champ and didn't give the champ back to them. They then tried to claim I was being toxic to them in pre-game chat because of it. Afterwards, they soft-trolled by constantly trying to ult me into the enemy team or enemy fountain to kill me all because of it. With how it was, it could've easily been non-reportable even though it was.

Not all trolling and inting is obvious, and not all toxic speech is ZT phrases and hate speech. If someone is soft trolling/feeding or being negative and bringing down the team without using zt phrases or hate speech, no one will report it to avoid the risk of them getting punished instead.