Does Riot take trolling seriously?

Ben SwoIo·2/23/2019, 5:50:55 AM·1 votes·1,359 views

I have 2 losses in a row, one being a Nasus jungle and the other a Morgana jungle. Both had horrible "I give up ff 15" attitudes. The Morgana flat out said she trolled because our team mate picked Vayne and she didn't want to play with a Vayne. Aside from that, I have had frequent troll picks with the "who gives a shit" attitude. Cool Riot, 2 losses because of stupid shit that magically finds its way onto my team. FUN.

Does reporting them even do anything? I feel like they just hide themselves by playing serious the next few matches, then fuck around again. I'm sick and tired of it. You can get banned for saying some stupid ass insta-ban worthy word but anything that ACTUALLY RUINS GAMEPLAY doesn't get any form of punishment. What gives??

6 Comments

Jo0o2/23/2019, 5:54:30 AM3 votes

Nasus jungle is a thing these days due to the stacks buff. The Morg sounds like she should get banned, the Nasus is allowed to have a bad game.

KVbqbFsC8e2/23/2019, 6:22:29 AM1 votes

Trolling requires people to actually look at the game. The automated system can't detect it. It usually takes many reports for someone to be manually reviewed, so more often than not it goes unpunished.

Gaxoo2/23/2019, 6:48:51 AM1 votes

If you had surrendered early, you could have avoided that headache. You brought it upon yourself.

xZabaksx2/23/2019, 7:10:46 AM1 votes

If they picked cleanse + ghost then yes

Silent Gravity2/23/2019, 7:14:50 AM1 votes

Reporting them does accomplish something. Even the reports that don't directly lead to a punishment are used to further refine the IFS' detection algorithms.

The three reasons that reports that DO lead to punishment can feel useless is 1) the unreliability of the feedback popup, 2) most trolls that are caught by the system don't bother making forum posts, and 3) those that do make forum posts generally delete them after being exposed.

This leaves very unreliable personal evidence, and very spotty public evidence. This leaves a void where the evidence should be.