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Reporting/Punishment

supaginga17·12/2/2019, 6:17:35 PM·2 votes·1,899 views

I feel like the punishment for "being reported" has turned into a little bit of a biased system at this point in favor of whoever reports. I have not been paying attention to the changes to the system as I hardly ever report or get reported. I recently got reported for certain things that were said. Although I know that my behavior in the chat was not all that sportsman like, the people I was talking to were much more aggressive, racist and rude. I also feel as though my behavior in chat was pretty mild compared to what was being said to me in that game. Being that I was responding to what was being said to me, I think being removed from chat for 10 games (including my ranked games), losing free rewards, and losing honor points due to being reported by a level 11 person in a normal game who was being toxic towards me is a little overboard. Especially considering I can't remember the last time I would have been reported for anything anyways. Though I appreciate the move to knock down toxic behavior in the game (huge step and I applaud you Riot) I think the report system needs to take other people's chats into consideration when a report is being filed as well. I, myself, didn't get to report the people who were being rude towards me because my after game screen wouldn't load. I understand the punishment. I will take it and play normal games until I can chat freely in my ranked games to help coordinate better with my team. But, like I said, I also think that's a steep punishment for a retaliation and think it's a little unjust considering the people who reported me were the instigators.

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Kei14312/2/2019, 9:10:14 PM4 votes

So ... The system doesn't punish based on number of reports or whomever gets reported first. It punishes based on consistency x severity, meaning you can be punished for 1 game of extreme toxicity or many many games of mild toxicity.

Since you haven't posted your chatlogs, I can only assume that you've showed similar behavior over many games.

Unker13912/2/2019, 6:30:01 PM2 votes

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I feel like the punishment for "being reported" has turned into a little bit of a biased system at this point in favor of whoever reports. I have not been paying attention to the changes to the system as I hardly ever report or get reported. I recently got reported for certain things that were said. Although I know that my behavior in the chat was not all that sportsman like, the people I was talking to were much more aggressive, racist and rude. I also feel as though my behavior in chat was pretty mild compared to what was being said to me in that game. Being that I was responding to what was being said to me, I think being removed from chat for 10 games (including my ranked games), losing free rewards, and losing honor points due to being reported by a level 11 person in a normal game who was being toxic towards me is a little overboard. Especially considering I can't remember the last time I would have been reported for anything anyways. Though I appreciate the move to knock down toxic behavior in the game (huge step and I applaud you Riot) I think the report system needs to take other people's chats into consideration when a report is being filed as well. I, myself, didn't get to report the people who were being rude towards me because my after game screen wouldn't load. I understand the punishment. I will take it and play normal games until I can chat freely in my ranked games to help coordinate better with my team. But, like I said, I also think that's a steep punishment for a retaliation and think it's a little unjust considering the people who reported me were the instigators.

First, why do you feel it was so important to respond to what was being said to you?

Next, there is no rule that only one person can be punished for toxic behavior in a game. If more than one person is toxic then they should all be punished based on their severity. So whether you were responding or initiating is irrelevant. If the other person was more toxic, then they will receive a tougher penalty....but it doesn't excuse your unsportsmanlike behavior.

Finally, their level and the fact that it was a normal game should have no bearing in evaluating toxicity.

Clockwork Mouse12/3/2019, 6:31:43 AM1 votes

The report system was a mistake all together. Riot should have taken a hands off approach save for the rare cases of cheating