How weighted are my reports?

DJColdCutz··1 votes·440 views

Ever since my birthday on Monday, I have turned over a new leaf. I no longer use chat in game (except for one game where I slipped up and said 'gj' after a successful gank and another one where I said 'ward' as I prepared to make a teleport play.. sorry...). Instead, I focus on winning and watching for negative behavior that I can report.

You leave the game? Bam. Reported.

You have an offensive summoner name? Bam, reported.

You flame the team? Bam, reported.

You flame a flamer? Bam, reported.

You tell me to "report xxx for being toxic"? Bam, they're reported, and bam, you're reported too.

Even if I don't agree that something should be reportable (saying "report xxx"), I will still report for it. This last game I played, I reported all four members on my team for negative behavior/unsportsmanlike conduct (two got into a big fight with each other which spilled over to the other two as well.. Not me though, since I don't use chat anymore..). Additionally, one member of the other team had an offensive summoner name, which he was reported for, and another one told us to "report xxx for toxic" so I reported both of them.. 8 of the 10 summoners were reported by me that game, for legitimate reasons. However, I worry that by fully utilizing the report system, I will begin to lose weight on my reports, because of the sheer quantity...

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Toastey3 votes

Why are you doing this? Are you on some sort of quest to get every Negative Player™ banned from ever playing the game? Are you trying to create some sort of utopian solo queue in which everyone is nice and sweet (or a mute robot, like you)? It's not ever going to happen. You're swimming upriver against the very nature of humanity and anonymity. Give it a rest. Focus on playing the game and improving your personal performance, not policing the actions of others.

As an additional note, you honestly shouldn't have to apologise for using chat in a useful way. There's nothing wrong with saying "ward" when you want to TP in. There's definitely nothing to apologise for if you're telling someone "gj". I think you've been misdirected into believing that in-game chat is inherently toxic and that it can be cleansed if you try hard enough.

I'm sorry, but summoner 1 only works on CC and Summoner Spell disables.

DJColdCutz1 votes

The report system is there to be used. if someone is being negative/toxic, then using the report system is entirely within my rights as a player. I can focus on the game and remember who said what at the same time...

I don't use chat anymore because too many groups of players gang up on poor performers and report them for "offensive language" or "negative attitude" so that they'll receive the automatic warning as a type of bullying. If I get reported for "offensive language" in a game that I haven't said anything, then I can report them for harassment/false reports. It's a way for both me and rito to be 100% sure that I said nothing offensive/am not tempted to say anything offensive. I know that you can use chat in a positive way, and I don't report people for simply talking. I just want to be completely clear if any false reports come in.

Toastey1 votes

The report system is there for extreme cases in which players deserve an appropriately severe punishment. Reporting people for trivial things like saying "please report an allegedly toxic person on my team" doesn't help anyone; in fact, you're somewhat diluting the system and telling Riot that the playerbase needs to be babied even further. You're basically being a sheep to Lyte in his quest to End All Toxicity™. Human beings don't work that way.

Let's think about it the other way. You don't want to get unfairly punished, right? If you dilute the value of reports with insignificant things like this, you're actually increasing the risk that one day, you yourself will get punished for something trivial (since its value will have been artificially inflated in the system). If you and people like you only reported for severe edge cases, then it would be extremely unlikely for anyone (yourself included) to get punished for something small. You wouldn't need to be afraid of using the chat. It's saddening to see people actually afraid of using a vital communicative tool because they feel Riot is too ban-happy...

DJColdCutz1 votes

I completely agree with you. I think it's the stupidest thing in the world that saying "report xxx" is reportable. I will report everyone I see doing it until rito changes their stupid policy or they lose all of their players for being banned for stupid things.

I won't get unfairly punished because I am no longer doing anything that remotely breaks the rules.

Toastey2 votes

You do understand that by doing this, you're undermining your own purpose on multiple fronts, right?

DJColdCutz1 votes

I'm undermining my purpose of either removing all the toxic people from the game or getting some report system reform by correctly using the system as it is now?

Toastey2 votes

a) You can't remove toxicity from an anonymous medium that involves human beings interacting. It's impossible. b) If you just go along for the ride and use the system "correctly" as it is, Riot will have no reason to think their system is flawed.

You see?

ThePartyLeader2 votes

Reports get weighed based on how many of your reports are"correct" based on tribunal data and your reports matching peer reports I do believe.

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