Why is it okay to threaten people with reports just for typing almost anything?

Shinji lkari··3 votes·529 views

Isn't this considered toxic behavior? Threatening to report people for "typing just enough"? Their report may not mean anything for someone who's never been chat restricted or banned, but reforming players have to deal with this (not referring to myself only ofc) and these types of threats just show how abusive and negative this system can get.

When will we be able to report players for their extremely poor performance during games? There are replays available everywhere and players that aren't intentional feeders, but either boosted or not deserving of their rank/current elo get away with ruining other player's games.

I will add someone threatened and reporting me for asking why they let me die, and why we weren't fighting when we were miles ahead of the enemy team. Before you say "typical adc" I was one item away from full build and could easily destroy their ezreal, but as I fought him with my team right behind me and theirs spread apart my team typically watched, yet it was my decisions that granted them a swift victory since all of them refused to initiate.

These type of players honestly are all boosted savages and it really makes me regret carrying or performing well any game when someone says they're going to report me. If they report me why should I give them the victory? Riot ever think about this? Regardless of their report meaning anything, why should a player help win the game as soon as they get threatened with a report?

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Maximum Morde4 votes

It's not. /Thread.

XinZhao2WinNhao1 votes

We don't care what it says in the rulebook if 70% of our games have people threatening for reports and it's happening in the majority of games.

Reminder that many dictatorship countries have a "freedom of speech" in their rulebook too. It's what actually happens that matters not what's written down on a piece of paper.

EndlessSorcerer4 votes

It isn't.

Threatening to report players (or soliciting reports) is punishable.

Flaherty2 votes

Threatening to report in any circumstance is against the rules. And there used to be an option to report for bad performance but it didn't actually do anything because people have bad games and it's stupid to report someone for it. If they are consistently performing much worse than average then that raises suspicion that they may be intentionally feeding, but 1 game isn't enough.

Shinji lkari1 votes

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Threatening to report in any circumstance is against the rules. And there used to be an option to report for bad performance but it didn't actually do anything because people have bad games and it's stupid to report someone for it. If they are consistently performing much worse than average then that raises suspicion that they may be intentionally feeding, but 1 game isn't enough.

I've never seen a player get punished for doing so, and their match histories show poor performance. At a certain level of play you shouldn't be behind over 50 cs and have many deaths.

Flaherty1 votes

People have bad games, sometimes really bad and sometimes it's a few games in a row. Maybe they're playing against an unfavorable matchup and against someone just a lot better than them. I'd say you're really lucky if you have never experienced that yourself

Shinji lkari1 votes

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People have bad games, sometimes really bad and sometimes it's a few games in a row. Maybe they're playing against an unfavorable matchup and against someone just a lot better than them. I'd say you're really lucky if you have never experienced that yourself

If you can't learn how to play the game, then don't play ranked. Coming up with excuses for people with 7+ loss streaks but placed at a higher ranking that other players on the team is silly. They ruin the games for others by pretending to be bronze players and should be banned.

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It isn't.

Threatening to report players (or soliciting reports) is punishable.

It happens nearly every game, I have gotten COUNTLESS number of "a player has been punished thanks to your report!" notifications, but never for people who threaten reports or intentionally feed.

Flaherty1 votes

Those people will rank down over time, and if you improve you'll rank up. it's been like that for literally every season. On your second part, it's safe to say that much less people report others for asking for reports so I doubt you'll ever see anyone actually punished for it since it has to be done many times like most things that get punished. And intentional feeding is one of the hardest things to justifiably punish for since a lot of the time it's hard to tell if someone is doing it on purpose rather than just being bad.

Shinji lkari1 votes

Actually they don't rank down over time if the players they report will still try to win them the game. As of right now the entire elo system is 100 % fucked below diamond 5 since dynamic queue boosted many players so Riot's great idea was to throw good players who solo carry in soloQ with garbage players they must carry.

Really makes you think huh? Good thing Blizzard (tm) has never given me trouble for my language. Nostalrius everyone!

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