Bring back "Unskilled player" report option...

Your Next Kill·Sep 6, 2016·8 votes·414 views

...but have absolutely no weight added to it.

Just make it a box that someone can click in the report if they get upset that someone on their team isn't doing well. It won't be sent as a report, it won't even show up to anyone, it will just be there for eye candy.

Then, crack down on toxic behavior towards those who flame people who are doing poorly, and refer them to that report button.

When it was still a report category, if I was ever mad at someone for doing poorly, I often times just told them "reporting you for unskilled". Still wrong, but I was new and didn't understand yet. Clicking the "unskilled player" box made me feel a lot better than I would have if I had just flamed them. I think and hope that it's the same way for everyone else.

Should this be implemented? Tell me what you guys think.

9 Comments

KarunamonSep 6, 20163 votes

That's exactly what the option was there for - it was a dumping ground for reports that went into the bit bucket. Being unskilled has at no point in the history of this game been a reason to have anything done to your account.

I can only speculate, but I think Riot got rid of it when the ability to report the same player for multiple things came up. It probably led to lots of bogus reports.

TheSequelsRBadSep 6, 20162 votes

Actually, if you got a lot of them, I believe it would reduce your MMR, so it did do something.

TrulyBlandSep 7, 20162 votes

That's a myth, created by their statements, that it's used for matchmaking adjustments... but to the system, not the person that was reported. If somebody keeps getting reported for unskilled, that would point to either the way MMR is calculated being flawed, or to the matchmaking algorithm not properly arranging teams. Both of these are Riot's fault, no reason to "punish" an individual player for it.

That said, most redposts implied the data gathered from these reports wasn't really that valuable, or even used frequently.

In essence, Riot got rid of it because a lot of people thought it would do something. And with that it created the idea that being bad is somehow punishable.

InfernoFøxSep 6, 20161 votes

If someone is so pissed of that someone on their team is having a bad game, then let them flame and rage all they want. TBH they will look at the entire chat. So, if Tribunal finds him flaming and harassing they could ban the person that wanted to report. If youre a smart enough player, you should know not to rage or yell at team. If they are raging at you, mute them. That simple

Troll ArmadaSep 7, 20161 votes

It was just a placebo probably, but I agree...

I would rather have some way to know that the player is a novice, since most of the trolls use this as a cover for trolling.

Being 'nice' to every troll throwing your match it starting to wear thin

KVbqbFsC8eSep 7, 20161 votes

They should bring it back and actually have it do something.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoSep 7, 20162 votes

reporting someone for having a bad game or being as good as other people is dumb. when is it required to be good at the game to play the game? they have mmr, elos, ranks and tiers to "separate " the different skill levels while not always perfect but generally it places people against others of similar skill levels. to report someone cuz they have a bad game or got out played, or tries a new champ and is learning is as toxic as flaming them for it.

KVbqbFsC8eSep 7, 20161 votes

The MMR/ELO system is terribly ineffective at matchmaking players fairly. There are huge skill disparities between players of similar ranks, due to Dynamic que and the luck factor of ranked. If we judge players solely off of win/loss in a team game, players will never accurately be ranked. An unskilled report system would help balance the matchmaking.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoSep 7, 20161 votes

the unskilled report category was a dummy report , it never reported anything. riot has even said so. so to bring it back would do nothing just the same as it did before and just the same as it does now not being there