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Does reporting actually work against people who intentionally troll, but don't talk?

Master Reformer·1/26/2019, 6:36:38 PM·1 votes·1,188 views

I played ranked yesterday with some friends. We had a person on our team who was duo queued with a friend. Top/Jungle. The jungle pick banned my friends selected mid champion intentionally. My friend asked why and a flame war broke out I stayed out of it. The jungle refused to gang any other lane except his duo top lane. When he had enough kills to start bragging he began ragging on us calling us a derogatory term for special needs people. Saying they were carrying us etc. The game ends I file my report no big deal. Two games later we get the same two guys on our ranked team. The same thing happens and the jungle player bans my mid lane selected champion once again. I don't say anything and don't talk to him all game. He and his friend do the same thing he only ganks his friend, and then when we are winning they intentionally start throwing the game. Not going for objectives, 1v4ing to die. Blowing summoners to intentionally give the enemy kills by flashing into them etc. The game ends I file my report. My question is this does the report function actually work/do anything outside of verbally abuse? If so why does this seem to be such a prevalent issue? If not why is verbal abuse the only thing punished, and the major way people get banned for toxicity? In your opinion isn't this form of trolling just as negative as toxic chat if not more so? If so why, and if not why not?

8 Comments

Imperial Pandaa1/26/2019, 6:57:56 PM2 votes

Reporting works, but gameplay stuff takes a lot longer than verbal due to ease of detection. Granted the system is more complicated than this, but making a code to detect certain things is simple. LoL uses a machine learning system which is a smarter system. Anyways.

With gameplay, you can't do that. You can't simply code "if 10 deaths, then punish" "if flash into turret, then punish" etc. Bevause there are non troll instances of this as well and you don't want to punish players who are innocent.

Banning a champ is honestly a grey area right now. It can be used against your account for a punishment if done frequently enough but judging intent is tough. (Also exceptions. Some people always ban Yas. Can't help if 50% of my team mates want him).

ModBianca Colt1/26/2019, 6:58:23 PM2 votes

does the report function actually work/do anything outside of verbally abuse? If so why does this seem to be such a prevalent issue? If not why is verbal abuse the only thing punished, and the major way people get banned for toxicity?

It's not the only thing that can get you punished, but it is the easiest way to get a strike. Due to the nature of this offence, detecting and punishing chat related violations is relatively simple, because all you have to do is look at someone's chat logs and see whether or not there was a breach. Intentional feeding, however, requires more information and demands that you prove one's intent, which is not a simple task.

Now, to answer your question: "Does reporting actually work against people who intentionally troll, but don't talk?"

Yes, it does. However, the system is not perfect, so expect inconsistencies. Doesn't hurt to try though.

GreenKnight1/26/2019, 6:57:31 PM1 votes

If he's constantly trolling, he will be manually reviewed and punished accordingly.

Awf Meta1/26/2019, 7:13:46 PM1 votes

Accounts are free. Riot literally can not prevent a player from creating a new account. Reports and punishments do not work at removing unwanted people from the game.

Reports do trigger punishments. It is not guaranteed though. I've seen cases that took lots of reports before a manual review was initiated.

KVbqbFsC8e1/26/2019, 9:06:42 PM1 votes

Depends entirely on how often they do it. The IFS will never catch it, but if they are trolling often enough then they could theoretically be manually reviewed.