The Instant Feedback System - Visible Marks Filed Against You

Oleandervine··4 votes·735 views

Riot, I have a small suggestion that may help to overall improve the ban system as well potentially improve player attitude.

What if there were visible indicators as to how many valid reported offenses you have filed against your account, versus how many away that you are from punishment and what that punishment is? This would help because players can keep track of what they are doing wrong and when they have done something to gain a report, as well as how they need to behave to prevent further marks against them and avoid punishment. I think this would go a long way towards improving behavior, as the closer problem players get to a punishment, the more likely they would be to improve their behavior to prevent hitting that punishment, which is a win-win for everyone.

I can see the potential for abuse here, as people would see this as "free chances" before getting punished, but I feel like something like this would inhibit bad behavior on the whole because it is a quantifiable way to see your bad behavior.

For Instance, you've been reported 3 times out of the 10 required to reach chat restriction. You'd see something like this: item 3751 item 3751 item 3751 item 3637 item 3637 item 3637 item 3637 item 3637 item 3637 item 3637PUNISHMENT: CHAT

I'm just throwing this out there, but I think the punishment system could be improved, and people knowing where they stand in terms of punishment has been used and shown to be effective in a variety of social settings such as work or school.

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

I think the major issue with increased visibility of account status is that people can use that to determine what kind of toxic behavior they can get away with because it isn't being flagged. We don't want people min-maxing their toxicity, that would be horrible.

Oleandervine2 votes

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I think the major issue with increased visibility of account status is that people can use that to determine what kind of toxic behavior they can get away with because it isn't being flagged.

Well, hence where I see how they can potentially abuse it. However, that won't always be the case, and the system isn't perfect since it depends on how other players feel treated and their willingness to issue reports, but I think the visibility will help a lot.

AMYS GRAVE1 votes

And not every infraction should carry equal weight, as is seen in the cases with homophobia, death threats, etc....

HeartseekerVarus1 votes

Those are more of the "instaban" flavour of misbehaving. That would probably remain "instaban" territory, too, especially in the case of death threats or blatant homophobia.

However, it can also be taken into account that a bigger offense could take up two of the indicator slots, or more. Perhaps one big slipup takes up half the slots, all on its own. Perhaps previous good behaviour is taken into account and fewer slots are filled in.

It could work, I think. And I like the idea. There's too much instaban/permaban confusion going on, right now, and indicators like this would go a long way in 1. clearing up confusion about "why" some people are banned, and 2. help people self-regulate their behaviour or fix outstandingly bad behaviour.

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