[Suggestion] - a minor change to the report system

Wallach·7/7/2016, 5:24:47 AM·4 votes·697 views

Hey guys,

I want to talk to you about the options that we have in the report system. As of now there are seven categories to choose from in case we want/need to report some one:

  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct.
  • Verbal Abuse.
  • Leaving the Game/AFK
  • Intentional Feeding
  • Hate Speech
  • Cheating
  • Offensive/Inappropriate Summoners Name

Lately I've been finding myself playing ranked games, with people that aren't willing to play with the team at all. These guys might even be good player and wont feed or destroy your game. but, as League of Legends is a team based game, in most cases this kind of behavior will bring your team to a point of loosing the game. This kind of people wont even communicate with the rest of the team most of the time, what even strengthens the feeling of frustration. playing a 40 minute game that your going to loose because of a 4v5 team fight, or playing for 30 minute, 4v5 only to get to an impossible 5v5 at the end of the game.

At an end of this kind of a game you know a few thing:

  • That guy was the main reason for loosing the game.
  • This is the way that guy play the game and he's going to do it again.
  • The next team he's going to play with will probably loose their game too.

In this case, you would like to report this guy so he might get a warning and change his ways. Well, if we'll go back to the report system categories, there's no real category that fits the situation. This guy is not actively Assisting the enemy team, he's doing it passively, so you can't report him for Intentional Feeding. More over, he's not using a Negative/passive-aggressive chat, griefing, so you can't report him for Unsportsmanlike Conduct. As to the rest of the categories, they are irrelevant to the subject.

To sum things up, I think Riot should add a new category to the report system: Unwilling to Play With the Team.

  • sorry for spelling/grammar mistakes (English is not my main language).

5 Comments

Humpelstilzche7/7/2016, 5:27:23 AM2 votes

The report system is about social behavior, i.e. being a jerk. What you describe has nothing to do with that, it's about skill. Lack of skill is already punished by losing games and it shouldn't be part of a system that is meant for social behavior only.

Wallach7/7/2016, 5:52:14 AM1 votes

An additional note: it looks like it used to be an option in the old version of the system as we can see in the riot support site.

Negative Attitude - This category is reserved for unhelpful or self-centered attitudes that go against the principles of a team-based game.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752884-Reporting-a-Player

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