Letting Players Police Themselves

CobraKais··2 votes·949 views

I don't understand why RIOT even needs a reporting system (to a panel) for players. It seems to me that they could implement a way for players to choose the type of players that they are willing to play with... simply put, they could have a filter at game selection that would allow each player to opt out of playing with any other players who have X amount of negative reports in the past 25 games, or similarly, they ONLY want to play with players who current have a ribbon of some kind.

Players who do not have ribbons, but also do not have many complaints, could potentially get put into a game with ribbon holders to boost morale and hopefully work on earning their ribbons, but there would never be more than 1 or 2 non-ribbon players on any team.

I feel like this would go a long way toward shutting down the toxic environment with players who freak out when they aren't winning in ARAM and probably get more players to use the honor system. Let the players police themselves and I believe the community would be much better off....

Maybe there is something about my idea that is just too terribly flawed that I don't get...

17 Comments

Nanki3 votes

In the first sentence you said Riot doesn't need a reporting system, yet your system would be reliant upon that reporting system? Makes no sense.

CobraKais1 votes

Lol... well, the point is still clear I think. I meant to say reporting to a panel, vs just reporting to a system that take into account history. I "think" it would eliminate a lot of trolling and toxicity because players wouldn't want to get stuck playing with people who only troll and throw insults around.

I modified my original post for clarification.

C0ntract0r1 votes

thats basically the troll queue that DOTA has, and riot has said several times they would not do that.

Aric2 votes

If Riot dropped their report system there would be chaos. No one would want to play because trolls will tear the game apart. I like the idea but in a game like this a report system is absolutely necessary.

CobraKais2 votes

I think I misspoke. There would be a report system, but not to a panel of people who arbitrarily decide if someone should be punished and for how long. Positive reporting means you play with other players who get a lot of positive reports and a lot of negative reports would likely land you with other negative players.

Aric1 votes

I can not expect that to do any good for the community. Just because a player is positive or negative does not determine the summoners skill level.

GaleWinUnleashed1 votes

It doesn't even go to a panel of people. Most of the punishments being dished out are being handled by an automated system that's tracking reports and reading chat logs. Which more or less means that we're policing ourselves, using general guidelines put in place by Riot. If we decide a behavior is undesirable, and we ensure that it is reported consistently, the system will see it and start punishing that behavior.

Dragfin1 votes

It's not flawed. I been saying this for two years. People think it's flawed because they feel it can be abused. It can be abused but it will only hurt the person trying to abuse it in the long run. Players policing themselves would be the best system for us but not for RIOT because they will lose those players who will be blacklisted for being toxic assholes.

venomous frost1 votes

so naïve

maybe we should let criminals jail themselves too? END CRIME IN THE WORLD

Dragfin2 votes

[{quoted}](name=venomous frost,realm=EUW,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=jHxEh6Mo,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2016-08-10T13:40:51.920+0000)

so naïve

maybe we should let criminals jail themselves too? END CRIME IN THE WORLD

In most countries the citizens (players in society) jail criminals. I'm going to guess that you are from pre-collapse of the Berlin Wall East Germany if you don't understand what I said.

CobraKais1 votes

Yeah... that is a good equivalency... :-/

sirjace1 votes

You do know people report you for winning right ? so any one with less then 25 reports 00.0001% of the community back when i was lvl 5 i got reported for being new to the game Now days im getting reported for leading the team bc every one els doesn't know what play to make

CobraKais1 votes

I'm not surprised this would happen, but I can't imagine it happens often enough to ruin the system. Are you saying you believe it happens one out of every 5 games? 25 games? 50 games? If so, the system could take that into account.

Hell, keep the current way of reporting, but at least leave the option for players that have managed to get honored so much that they have ribbons, the ability to play with only one another.

EvilDustMan1 votes

You realize the report system is based on player expectations, right? Like, it is basically us policing ourselves.

Dragfin1 votes

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You realize the report system is based on player expectations, right? Like, it is basically us policing ourselves.

Actually we are informing, or what amounts to tattling in most cases because most cases are BS? It's up to RIOT if someone gets punished or not.

Itankyou1 votes

I don't understand why RIOT even needs a reporting system (to a panel) for players

It's called school.

Epitome of Noob1 votes

Priority queue for people with honors.

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