Riot has stated that if you falsely report someone, your report weight will drop and your reports will be worth less. How does that work though?
To me it seems like a lie to prevent people from spamming reports.
A report simply flags a game for a review by the insant feedback system, it doesn't increase the chance of the one being reported getting punished, so what's the point of a "report weight"?
Deep Terror Nami2 votesSeems like a silly thing to lie about when it could be true and that would be better.
DarkPh0enix2 votesBut I don't understand how your report weight matters at all, since the IFS is what does all the job and the report just simply flags the game to be reviewed.
Dynikus3 votesI've actually wondered this same thing. It doesn't really make much sense for report weight to still be a thing with games being automatically reviewed.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesThe community drives the system. People that spam report for something 99% of the community sees as ok shouldn't be getting people punished over it. The system does not just check for phrases/keywords, it learns from our reports.
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DarkPh0enix1 voteswhat
Kei1432 votesprobably comes into play more when a new behavior is reported.
if a guys keeps spamming 'mdzz' (fk you are retarded in chinese, shortened with the first letters only), those with high report weight will probably tell the system to "CATCH ONTO THIS WORD, HE IS HARASSING OTHERS WITH IT"
YokoNomi1 votes"A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.
The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth"
Fancy story, one of my favorites.
AMYS GRAVE1 votesWith this system though, they can check every cry of wolf. The system is automated so there is no cost in doing so. The cost of letting a wolf get the heard is a more toxic community, but no one has to rush out of their beds when someone reports someone in lol.
TrulyBland2 votesWhich is why I'm assuming report power only comes into play when manual reviews happen.
There are still a lot of manual reviews, especially for "weird" cases where the automated system doesn't find anything punishable, even though that person is reported way way more often than average (by otherwise very trustworthy reporters).
I suppose in that analogy the automated system would be a voice-activated automated anti-wolf fence, that sometimes fails. If people keep screaming wolf even after the anti-wolf fence repeatedly tells everybody that everything is okay you might still want to check it out. At that point you're in the same situation where you need to assess who is a trustworthy wolf-reporter.
Photos of Ghosts1 votesOne report isn't enough to trigger a review, unless you have some supermegareputation, or it's for hate speech. It needs to get past a certain point. If trustworthy people report you, it's going to be fast, and if it's dumb spammers, it's going to take decades.
AMYS GRAVE1 votesLets start by assuming you spam reports with absolute truthiness but varying degrees of truth.
Because the system looks for a pattern of behaviour before punishing, it has to count up the number of valid reports filed. This is where report weight comes into play. Your report still triggered the system for review, but the odds of your report leading to punishment are lowered if you spam reports. When other people report that person in the future it looks at that persons report history and your report is in there, but it weights those accumulated reports based on the credibility of the reporter.
IMO It doesn't matter how often the reporter reports, what is important is the behaviour being reported.