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Is the integrity of your reports fragile?

Wolfenstin·12/17/2015, 11:37:37 PM·4 votes·1,117 views

What I mean by the question is are reports that report people for small offences considered false and might damage my report integrity? Take for example a support Nautilus I had today who got angry with me in champ select for taking barrier over heal. I ignored him and played normally till he snapped at me for going bot lane again to stop minions from pushing.

He told me "go midlane corki you dumb shit," and "why would you go bot, just stupid." I asked him why he was being so aggressive, but he never replied, so I just muted him. No idea if he said anything else, for I had him muted, but reported him for the aggressiveness anyway. I'd rather not be yelled at for silly little things, and felt I was entitled to report him for such.

Yet it did bring me some paranoia that possibly reporting players for just one outburst (or as far as I knew, just one outburst) would make my future reports have less integrity. So my question is, if I report someone for a minor incident or rude comment, is it possible for my reports to lose value?

11 Comments

BlueThingamajig12/18/2015, 4:58:23 PM3 votes

As people have indicated, your reports aren't fragile; rather they are malleable. Reporting for minor occurrences won't necessarily drop your report weight entirely to zero, but it might decrease a little bit where your reports are worth a little bit less than a standard report. Alternatively, maybe every report you gave IS valid, and the system may weigh your reports as valuable, perhaps more so than the average report.

TrulyBland12/17/2015, 11:54:52 PM2 votes

The way I understand it: Yes-ish. I believe report weight is lowered/increased in a continuous manner. But here's the thing: Let's say the things you report are benign enough for your report weight to be lowered a little bit; then that still doesn't make it wrong for you to report these people.

Look at it like that: If somebody only ever reports when people shouts racial slurs at everybody at least ten times, then you'd logically take their reports a bit more serious. But at the same time, if you only had people like that, then people that shout racial slurs at everybody nine times or less would actually slip through the cracks.

Ultimately, for a system like Riot's to function I'd assume you need a large spectrum of reporting behaviour (with the exception of deliberate false reporting ofc).

dunkeroni12/17/2015, 11:48:28 PM1 votes

Riot has stated that the number of reports you send out does not impact the power of your reports. The only times I know of that a player's reports towards others are called into question are on rare occasion with the tribunal looking at a banned player's account to determine the history of how they treat and react to other players. For instance, you will most likely not be unbanned if you were permabanned for being toxic AND you spam reports at everyone you play with.

MegaShroom900012/18/2015, 2:25:08 PM1 votes

I've been curious about this as well. I've muted people after a first rude comment or two. Why risk more abuse? But is it enough to report? Sometimes I don't report these out of fear of my reports loosing impact.

I would like to see a RIOT response.

How do they determine if a report is "wrong" and will dock your credibility? I am assuming this is largely computer generated, and the computer algorithms will certainly miss characterize some reports.