A very, very simple fix for the toxic community.

AFoxInTheWires·4/30/2016, 10:44:21 PM·1 votes·822 views

First off let me state that, unlike many, I actually respect the Tribunal system and I believe that Riot does the best it can to protect the community from toxic players while still being fair (i.e. not just banning/punishing everyone without actually reviewing the case, which lord knows must be a grueling task). However, while it's true that they act in the most extreme cases (threats/abusive language), this can often take a very long time, and there are other more nuanced situations where someone may not be worth official disciplinary action but is still causing a head ache for lots of players. So, here's my solution:

ADD A "BLOCK PLAYER" BUTTON TO THE POST GAME RESULTS SCREEN

Seriously. We have buttons to friend, gift, honor, and report people... so why not throw a block button in there? Yes, we can go to the "Recently Played" tab on our friends list, hunt down the name, and manually block them... but honestly this is really tedious and is hardly ever thought about, and many don't even know you can do this. But adding a block button on post-game will make it clear and easily available to everyone when it matters most.

So what does this do? Well, the immediate result is that you will never have to deal with that particular player ever again (and if you think it unlikely that you won't run into the same toxic players, trust me... it happens). The long-term result, however, is that if the player continues to be toxic, more people will block them after the game. If this continues long enough, a consistently toxic player will find it harder and harder to get into a game.

Since it's not an official disciplinary action, it has no potential to be abused. And it's not asking much since it's a feature we already have. All I'm proposing is that you take this currently-buried feature and give us all a quality of life enhancement by slapping a button on the post-game screen. I mean, you guys could patch that in like, tomorrow, if you wanted.

7 Comments

Maple Crusader4/30/2016, 10:47:49 PM2 votes

The problem I see with this idea is that if people start blocking each other, game queues will take longer as well.

Drehirth4/30/2016, 10:49:06 PM2 votes

We will build a wall, and the toxic community will pay for it!

ValyrianBlade4/30/2016, 11:00:20 PM2 votes

First - block player doesn't prevent you from getting queued with them. It simply mutes them to you, and prevents them from adding you or messaging you. Should they let us block people from playing with us? Honestly under Master I don't see why not, there are so many players it changes nothing. The argument that challenger players would block people to always get the same teams though is the reason it doesn't happen (however with dynamic queues now I don't see the problem).

Second - The tribunal no longer exists. The entire system is now automated based on report frequency. The tribunal used to exist, but was taken down for maintenance (presumably because a lot of players voted to punish regardless of what actually happened).