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"?
Seems like a silly thing to lie about when it could be true and that would be better.
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probably 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"
"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"
One 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.
Lets 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.
