Does the report function get abused often? Is there a time a day that abuses are more abundant?

Brydaro·1/30/2019, 8:00:35 AM·2 votes·3,199 views

So I see "report x" all the time over players whom the messenger thinks cost them the game. It's almost this bizarre altar where player's reputations are sacrificed for SoloQ success. I'm curious how many false reports come through. How do they get sorted out? Do certain times of day correlate to the amount of false reports? I imagine super early morning hours and like 3-7pm are times of heavy flow with kids getting off school and sleep-deprived people being ornery.

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Umbral Regent1/30/2019, 8:12:24 AM5 votes

So I see "report x" all the time over players whom the messenger thinks cost them the game.

Thankfully, their report rallying has no real effect. As the IFS only takes into account how many reports are filed greater than a value of 0 - so if there's 1-9 reports, the game is reviewed. If there's 0, the game isn't reviewed.

How do they get sorted out?

As far as I understand it, the IFS looks at a player's chat logs and uses context clues to figure out, holistically, whether or not the player broke the rules, was negative, or flamed someone throughout a game. It's difficult to accurately describe without an example log, but the IFS is pretty good at catching negative and toxic behaviors.

If a review finds no examples of misbehavior in the reported players' chat, the report is flagged as invalid and discarded. If the review does find misbehavior, the report is flagged as valid, and the player is appropriately punished - whether by reducing Honor progress for that match or with a mainline punishment.

Moonscourge1/30/2019, 8:04:56 AM3 votes

You can't abuse the report system. The more false reports an account makes, the less value each report has.

That being said, I like the question you pose and as unlikely as getting an answer to that is I'd like one too.

R107 Games1/30/2019, 8:08:17 AM3 votes

Does the report function get abused often?

Yeah. Lots of players like to report someone for "inting" or "trolling" when the person simply had a bad game.

Some of those players have a wrong view of what inting and trolling is, some of them don't know when a player is actually inting or trolling, and some of them just like to report someone that didn't play well in an attempt to get them punished.

Either way, it is abused

Ph03n1xb1rd1/30/2019, 2:11:20 PM1 votes

You simply can not abuse the report system.

If you report for trolling the report is 99% thrown in the trash with no further steps. Only if the guy ran down mid with 6 tears or something like this will lead to a punishment.

If you report for chat related things, the system probably first probably checks for ZT words, then some kind of ML stuff is used on it, or at least that is what i think Tantram once said, and punishes you accordingly.

Being reported nine times or once in one game, does not matter. (It only matter if you get reported 327846387264+ times and it flags you for a manual review where the Rito ~~bots, who has no idea how the game works~~ support checks your games.

False reports do nothing, not even legit reports do anything mostly :D