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To Counteract Toxic Behavior, Give More Rewards For Sportsmanlike Players

ArnoldSchwarzens·10/8/2016, 10:06:44 PM·3 votes·855 views

And I mean actual sportsmanlike players. I remember when I got a skin at the beginning of this season because it somehow recognized me as a sportsmanlike player. Even though I get in arguments a ton in chat, it used to be even more in s5.

Let's take honors for example. Who really cares about that shit anymore anyway. Get a virtual badge with no meaning ? - No one is going to try and control themselves for that.

But imagine the following - little reports, only those who report you for unintentionally feeding, lots of honors. First you get small IP boosts, then maybe unique summoner Icons, then unique ward skins, then unique actual skins, just for being a nice guy. That is something worth being nice for.

Because let's face it, the report system fails at propely penalizing and catching toxic players. If it would work, we wouldn't even stumble into those guys in the first place. It really only actually gets a small minority, the worst of the worst, banned. I for example was EXTREMELY toxic back in s2 and s3, on my old account, and I never faced ANY penalties. The system just doesn't work. This would be another approach that is probably much more effective.

I know you guys want to make money and giving away stuff for free should only come as a treat, like IP boosts or the Riot Kayle skin we got on special occasions. But people who get to weather the storm of flame and shit that we League Players have to experience everyday and actually are patient and cool about it, deserve much more then they are getting right now.

17 Comments

Weathered10/8/2016, 10:09:03 PM3 votes

Riot shouldn't need to give away free content to "good" people to stop others from being an asshole. That's a problem of the person, not Riot Games.

TheSeltzerBaron10/8/2016, 10:48:26 PM1 votes

I don't really see this working. As much as I would like to believe you can incentivize good behavior, it has a limit and it's not going to affect the toxic people. It might make good people better but toxic players will remain toxic. If it's toxicity through chat, just mute and move on. If it was that easy to reform assholes through a game program we wouldn't have so many all over the place IRL. There's no magic pill to make jerky people nice.

Zombiemaster10/8/2016, 11:08:34 PM1 votes

If it would work, we wouldn't even stumble into those guys in the first place.

That's actually not true. The current system does work fairly well, being capable of punishing toxic players within minutes of a game's end. Sure it doesn't catch everyone, but it does punish a large majority of toxic players, and a majority of punished players do reform their behavior.

The thing is, though, is that the system works by punishing toxic behavior after it has already happened, it's not there to prevent toxic behavior from happening in the first place. This means that even if it worked perfectly and punished every single toxic player, we would still run into toxic players in our games because they need to be toxic before they get punished.

Now, as far as rewarding positive behavior, the biggest problem with having this tied to the current honor system is the whole idea of honor trading, which is likely why Riot didn't tie any significant rewards to the system in the first place. That being said, I do believe Riot has mentioned that they have some things in mind for rewarding positive behavior when they get around to bringing back the Tribunal. Unfortunately, we don't know now long that will take, but last I heard they plan on devoting more resources to it once the get the new client up and running smoothly.

Relinquisher0710/9/2016, 12:19:55 AM1 votes

Solo Queue will deal with Toxicity once its implemented in lower leagues, we will see it drop by a vast majority, cause people will stop getting boosted by dynamic queue and be placed where they actually belong. This will lead to easily triggered people not losing games to having someone who decided to not quad queue for a single game just not be on their team and have a fair chance at winning. Its the main focus of toxicity atm, is someone with a trio or quad preference who solo queues and very clearly doesnt belong in their league.

XerShade10/12/2016, 10:41:23 PM1 votes

Your reward is being able to play the game.