Tribunal, are you dead?

HyphenK··8 votes·2,046 views

No need to read all of the article below, but I've put the important informations in bold to support my argument. This post dates back to 3, T-H-R-E-E years ago. I don't want to sound passive-agressive but I think I don't have the same meaning for "temporarily" as Riot. However, I start this article with the idea to launch a constructive discussion.

  • So okay, many things have been upgraded in the past few years and you guys in Riot did an awesome job :D (rework many champions, rework of the maps, new champions with very interesting mechanics,... long story short : you're the best guys!).
  • But in the same time, I've seen League's community getting worse : flaming is more frequent and more "harsh" (even I flame more, I don't say that I'm perfect), people get tilted more easily, more afk's, ... Lol's community is even laughed at on the internet (9gag, reddit, salt, etc... meh, you know what I mean)! I don't know if it has always been this way but if it reached the point that League of Legends' salty community is pointed out all over internet, It's probably that something has changed during the past years (FYI, I've been playing LoL for 4years now). And I think it's really a shame because a game's community should be as important, if not more, than its features or its gameplay.
  • It's with this idea in mind that I regret the upgrade of the Tribunal takes sooooooooooooo much time! As Lyte said in the article below : "Tribunal is a powerful way for the community to decide what behaviors are acceptable during a League of Legends match". And why was it so powerful? Because people were judged by other people. We didn't feel like we were numbers, statistics, processed by algorithms. Furthermore, taking part in the tribunal process made people think about their own behavior. Some cases changed their mind, looking at hateful players prevented them from choosing "the dark side" of the Rift

So please Riot, put the Tribunal back as soon as possible before people says in the most natural way in the world "This steak has no flavor, can you pass me the Lol's community pls?"

Thanks Rito :D![slayer-jinx-wink]

"Upgrading the Tribunal BY LYTE With a number of upgrades planned for Tribunal, we wanted to share our vision for the system, what we’ve learned over the last few years and what changes we’ll be making moving forward. Tribunal is a powerful way for the community to decide what behaviors are acceptable during a League of Legends match. We’d like to take some time to upgrade the system with new features to ensure it’s an effective way of combating unsportsmanlike behavior in game. We’re going to temporarily put the Tribunal in maintenance mode while we upgrade the overall system to ensure players who deserve punishments receive them much faster than they currently do. We’ll also be adding the ability to review and reward players who exemplify the best sportsmanship in League of Legends. In the meantime, a new system will hand out restricted chat punishments and game bans rapidly so players will be banned or placed into restricted chat mode within a few hours of their negative behavior. Improvements to another system, LeaverBuster, will tune and upgrade its ability to further address ranked play, ensuring aggressive and severe consequences to maintain the competitive, sportsmanlike spirit of the mode. We’ll be rolling out additional experiments throughout the Tribunal upgrade and depending on the results of these experiments and the impact they have on players, we’ll incorporate these lessons into the upgraded Tribunal. To sum everything up: we want to spotlight and encourage positive behavior through the Tribunal as well as improve the speed of the system. We’re taking the Tribunal down to make these improvements and will use systems like Restricted Chat and an enhanced LeaverBuster while we upgrade Tribunal. Share your feedback and your questions below, and we’ll see you in game!"

7 Comments

Aatrox Mid 1v53 votes

I 100% agree. The toxicity has become needless and riot doesnt give a fuck as long as people keep buying from them. I would be embarrassed with a community this toxic in my game but riot just doesnt care.

SourDeezNutts1 votes

for real dude. they care more about the 12 year olds feeding and trolling but buy skins with their lunch money then they do the people who have been playing this game for years and want good old fashion online gaming competition.

Packun Flower1 votes

Yeah, it's safe to assume its not coming back at this point.

HyphenK1 votes

I think it's a shame. It was a good tool to maintain a good atmosphere in the community, because it gave responsibility to players item 3070 [slayer-jinx-catface] (This Jinx sticker is totally irrelevant, I just like the sticker, and jinx, but mainly jinx, well, she is so cute!)

Ambient Snow1 votes

ITs because Tribunal was abused.

no one cared to read the reports or the reason why people were reported. instead it was very well documented and seen that people would just open up the tribunal

do their 10 Punishments ( because if you chose innocent you were a troll / fool)

and then collect free IP

Or people would copy and paste and post the Cases.. (using paint to mark out the names) and then comment on it

so they just closed it.

LatetotheRace1 votes

easy solution. Create high requirements for players to access the system. Lvl 30 account minimum. X Account age. No prior restrictions (possibly 12 months minimum) I'm sure there could also be a myriad of other requirements we could add to protect the tribunal from toxic players.

Hans0726721 votes

2017/11/02 Still waiting.

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