I'm a relatively new player, and I'm still unsure of what the deal is with tribunals. Upstanding citizen that I am, I've never been on the receiving end of them, but I'd love to participate in the process of making our community better. Are players just selected randomly to review cases? Is there a vetting or application process?
#The Tribunal...
...is the old-fashioned name for League of Legends punishment system. It is actually an outdated term, because the current system has little to do with the old tribunal system. The modern term would be "Automated punishment system" or simply "Punishment system". Since that is quite a mouthful, and for "historic" reasons, many players still call it "The Tribunal", myself included.
(Also, you gotta admit, its a catchy term ^^)
The old system included player-participation in terms of actually voting on each and every case, where a majority out-of-5 vote decided wheter or not a player was guilty or not. Every player who ddn't receive a punishment himself, and was above lvl 20, was eligible to participate.
Here is pictures of the (web-broser based) interface of 'ye olde days: (And yes dear forum experts, I took the time to mask all the names.)
https://s11.postimg.org/jf426svtv/Tribunal_Safe_Pic.jpg
This one shows what the chatlog looked like. Purple is the guy the case is about, green is his team, red the other team:
http://i.imgur.com/KV08uyO.jpg
The "judges" were presented with "cases", each of wich consisted of 3-5 games. The cases were automatically generated by the system, based on reports...basically, a lot of reports = a case was generated and put into the queue, and random judges were assigned to it from the pool of participating players.
Within a case, the "judges" could access the players build, the entire chatlog, as well as read the report reasons, and comments. They then could vote "Punish" or "Pardon", or refuse to vote on the case at all.
You could do a maximum of 20 cases per week.
Hope that clears things up a bit :-)
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Tribunal doesn't exist. Riot removed it about 4 years ago and replaced it with an automated system, and decided to still refer to every punishment as judged by Tribunal because god knows why.
riot has had the tribunal "under maintenance" for 4 years but wont admit that they aren't bringing it back
It's gone, was supposed to be back but seems like it won't be.
Oh man, I miss the Tribunal. Could sit down with a big ole' bowl of popcorn, and munch away as you read through the juicy tidbits. And you got to see both sides of the story! So you really knew how things were getting started.
A lot of times here, someone will come in and post a sad story about how they were unfairly banned, and post logs and say that they didn't do anything wrong.... and then a Red will come in and call them on the giant pile of shenanigans they were building. It seems like with the old Tribunal, it was more unbiased for us as reviewers. I also loved how you got a score, based on how "accurate" you were. That is to say, how often your vote coincided with what was ultimately decided for the particular case. So you really got to see how others in the Tribunal community were feeling as a whole, and what trends were considered "acceptable" versus "unacceptable" by the players, within the framework of the rules. It gave a human element to the review process, where people were deciding if something was just harmless banter, or if it was harassing trashtalk.
Unfortunately, there simply were not nearly enough people on the Tribunal to keep up with the amount of cases that needed to be reviewed (since we could only review a small number at a time. =( ) The IFS is much more efficient, but at the price of losing that human element. I just keep my fingers crossed that they will bring back some form of the Tribunal. I've got my popcorn ready!
no, tribunal was just an open vote, anybody past certain summoner level could log in and vote for iirc 10 cases per day, initially you got a bit of ip for that, then lol nothing, but the best part was to read the full logs and report messages, sometimes you could find hilarious stuff there
not only it violated people's privacy (they even showed you their names originally), but it also was just a kangaroo court, 95% or so cases were voted to be punished
eventually rito ditched tribunal and simply began to automatically punish every case which back then would be marked as tribunal worthy, it works pretty much like tribunal but without any hassle
p.s. your desire to "better" community is actually a desire to feel yourself emporvered and deciding the punishments of other people
The Tribunal was this thing where you clicked punish and got IP.
