Does Riot have any official comments about report weight?

Jo0o·10/20/2016, 7:56:10 PM·3 votes·630 views

I had an odd experience the other day. I played a bots game to kick back and take a break, yet wound up needing to somewhat carry the game, because... I'm pretty sure all four of my teammates were, themselves, bots. I don't have any hard proof and I'm hardly familiar with scripted behaviors, but none of them talked (except for two that called lanes and then silently went to a different lane), all of them died several times for silly reasons, and their use of skills seemed, for lack of a better word, mechanical. I said everything ranging from "good morning!" to "How is everybody?" to "silent bunch, aren't we?" to "I'm pretty sure you're all bots. Somebody say something to indicate otherwise.", yet no response from any of them. So, I reported all of them for illegal program use afterwards.

Given that I have no hard evidence for those reports, I'm a bit concerned that making a practice of reporting silent baddies in intermediate bots games could reduce my report weight. Does anybody know for sure whether this is a risk I'm taking, or has Riot said anything official on the subject?

Thanks in advance for your help.

2 Comments

LostFr0st10/20/2016, 8:12:48 PM1 votes

No, you're fine. Reports like those help them to iD bots and you even tried in chat. You aren't taking any risk :)

Desolas Arterius10/20/2016, 8:24:58 PM1 votes

Sometimes a player attempts to punish another player by reporting them as a form of retaliation. In a system that relies on honesty, that’s potentially a big problem. We can detect false reports, filter them out, and decrease the effectiveness of future reports from consistently dishonest players. As we continue to build more systems that rely on honest reports, the penalties for false reporting will become more strict. - Lyte

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