Should You Report Even If You Aren't Involved In A 1 On 1 Dispute?

Mokubear··1 votes·493 views

It seems like common sense to report someone who deserves it regardless of a person's involvement in whatever that report-deserving player did, but all too often I see people get off without even a chat restriction. Almost 1 in 5 games I see myself or a teammate who isn't doing well get flamed unnecessarily, and it's usually by another player who isn't doing so hot themselves. But there's a difference between being upset and going out of your way to bring someone else down, especially when it's 1 on 1 targeting. Therefore I remind and urge people to take that extra 5 seconds after a game to report those people with tendencies to lash out bully when they're upset, or even when they're not. They don't deserve a ban, but a chat restriction would definitely help to stop them from bringing people down.

Note I don't mean the people who just get upset and salty and are generally... well, salty and tiltable. I don't mean to say not to report those players, but this post is about the 1 on 1 bullying scenarios. I know I seem like a middle school PSA about cyber bullying, but it happens all too often and I've seen players get off without any sort of restriction or punishment after they've completely ruined someone's game and possibly day all because people just don't care to report the player.

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MigYalle4 votes

Person being bad; Report them. Doesn't matter if they were bad to you, a teammate, or a enemy, still breaks community guidelines and rules and why I see a lot of messages from Riot that say "Due to a report by u and X person has been punished."

Mokubear1 votes

But people just don't care enough to do that most of the time because it doesn't effect them; that's why I made this post. If people all thought and acted like you say then that would be great, but they don't always do so :/

MigYalle1 votes

Just remember, things like verbal abuse are usually cumulative, so they stack up and they usually recieve a heavy punishment once all the reports are added up after a few days. Every little bit counts.

ModPrandine1 votes

Just because they didn't get a chat restriction after you reported them doesn't mean that they didn't later on. Besides, a chat restriction is exactly what it sounds like-a chat restriction. As long as you know that you're making a valid report then that's all that matters. The troublemakers will eventually be punished, it's only a matter of time.

Mokubear1 votes

How long though? It's been months since I've gotten a pop-up letting me know someone was punished. I just feel like too often the people who say "go ahead and report me %%% rito doesn't care lol it won't do anything" end up being right (at least about it not doing anything, that is).

ModPrandine

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How long though? It's been months since I've gotten a pop-up letting me know someone was punished. I just feel like too often the people who say "go ahead and report me %%% rito doesn't care lol it won't do anything" end up being right (at least about it not doing anything, that is).

You are not given a pop-up if it wasn't your report alone that led to a review of the account in question. This doesn't mean that your report did nothing or that they weren't punsihed, but that it just simply wasn't your report alone that triggered a review of the account. Also, chances are that the people saying stuff like that are just banned troll ragers themselves that are trying to ruin as many games as they can before their inevitable next ban.

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