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Now that the honor system is revamped and replays are in the game, good time to bring back tribunal

lolipopevelynn·8/5/2017, 4:18:57 PM·2 votes·259 views

I think its a good idea to start looking at bringing the player tribunal back for next season. Its clear riot is automating everything currently and it is INSANELY easy to bypass that automation, as evident certain people intentionally trolling games. With the honor system and replay system it should be easy for HONORABLE players to review games and replays for those games and issue judgements based on what they seen. here is how it could work.

Only players with a honor level of 4 or 5 can volunteer for the tribunal reviews and issue judgements. These players are given chat logs and the games replay data to review. if enough people with an honor level of 4-5 issue the same judgement for that player then that player will get a punishment based on what the majority of honor level 5 players picked. so if the majority of lvl 5 honored players say this guy needs to be banned, then he will get banned. if the majority say this guy was just having a bad game then he wont be punished. perm bans could still be handled case by case by riot, but players with an honor level of 5 can still suggest a perm ban if its that severe making the decision that much easier for riot to consider. It would take a significant amount of reports for someone to enter the tribunal, and when they do ranked play is disabled for them until the review process is finished.

The process could go even faster if the replay system could record chat, that way you would only need the replay to review and wont have to look over chat logs + a replay. this should be a fair system, only the most dedicated of players will ever reach honor level 5 seeing as how most are struggling to reach level 3 even. So it will pretty much weed out anyone from trolling the tribunal and only players dedicated to being as positive as possible will be judging it.

the bottom line is that a HUMAN needs to be judging these games, not a robot/computer system that was made in order to stay lazy. You cant program a system to accurately tell if a Anivia is just bad at laying down walls or is doing so to intentionally block players and greif them. you cant make a system to accurately indicated if a TahmKench is just having a off day or if he is eating people and intentionally puking them into the enemy team to die. only a HUMAN can tell the difference. the community knows what a troll is and they know who is just having a bad game is.

that being said, the vast majority of the community is toxic and they actually dont CARE if someone is just having a bad game and will report them anyway. this is where Honor levels come into play. players with a honor of atleast 4 or 5 should be cool enough to actually make these kinds of determinations. a troll wont waste an entire season being positive just to troll the tribunal only to get banned soon after and lose all of the honor they gained. and even if that is the case, atleast they were not being toxic for that season they grind out honor levels.

2 Comments

TiltoverEnforcer8/5/2017, 4:52:48 PM1 votes

While I agree with most things you said here, I think Riot's main issue is there are simply way too many games for humans to conceivably cover them all. Let's say the average player plays 1 game each day. This takes into account those who don't play every day, balancing it with those who play multiple. While this probably isn't anywhere near close to correct, in this instance, this gives us about 3 million games each day (roughly 100 million active monthly players). In probably 30-40% of these games, there's at least one report. Riot claims they don't take into account number of reports when deciding punishments, so off it goes to the Tribunal. This gives us roughly 900,000 to 1,200,000 games each day to judge. I just don't think that number is very feasible to give to players, so they choose to automate the system in its entirety.

This all being said, I do think it would be a good idea for Riot to bring back the Tribunal. It would help immensely to catch players who would otherwise evade the automated punishment system, and would quell those who think that Riot's doing nothing to punish trolls in their games.

But we should keep in mind that no system will catch 100% of perpetrators.