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League of Legends is the world's most popular game at the moment (if you disregard mobile and social titles) so it's understandable that it gets its fair share of what developer Riot Games calls, “toxic players.” To help combat these Riot has several initiatives set up, including the player moderated tribunal system which lets them judge reports on a case by case basis. It turns out however, that if you end up in the tribunal, then chances are you're going to get punished in one way or another.
One Redditor by the name of PersianMG, was interested to see how often the tribunal dispensed justice and how often it pardoned people. Ultimately, they discovered that some 92.7 per cent of all those that enter the tribunal are punished, while the remaining 7.3 per cent are pardoned.
This can be broken down into what sorts of punishments people received, with the large majority of all cases simply getting a slap on the wrist for their first offence, but 1.1 per cent of those that reach the tribunal are permanently banned.
The tribunal: killing your faith in humanity on case at at time
These results would suggest, though do not prove conclusively, that the tribunal is a system that works rather well. If most people only end up in the tribunal once or twice, receiving basic warnings for behaviour the first time around, chances are they don't come back or the instances of multiple offenders would be far higher.
Some of the other punishments metered out to players, include things like chat bans, which LoL and DotA 2 have experimented with, mostly with high success rates. In all actuality, those banned from chatting that are normally a toxic member of the team, are much more likely to win because of their inability to annoy their fellow players and can then focus on the game itself.
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KitGuru Says: This is an interesting little study, though it was limited to NA cases in the tribunal. It would be interesting to see if the data and results are comparable to those from other regions.
i wonder what the justice system is for people who make troll accounts, or use other people’s accounts to troll, or get disconnected due to bad internet or other similar issues. It’s not always possible to be fair, I understand that. But many people from other countries play on the NA server but don’t have the luxury of high speed uninterrupted internet. =)
Get off the NA servers. It slows our play down. We do not want to wait on reconnects. WE had 5 in one game. Needless to say he got reported and got abandonment.
It is so not fair at all.
I got a temp ban from “leaving a game” on a day where my whole town lost internet connection.
Other than that, I really hope they will care more about the people who gets reported for being really awful since there are so many of them.
That’s just the way it goes with competitive games these days unfortunately. It’s the same in CS:GO as well, the idea is that when you accept to play the game you have to play it. I love eSports games, but I think this system is a little too harsh for people who just want to get the most out of a multiplayer game.
shup darrell
Finding I don’t agree with this site on some of these issues. From pirating to this full retard mode tribunal crap from Riot. They went the wrong way about it and are damaging the community as it continues. Their new gamers are harassed now by smurfs who got banned, either temporarily or permanently. People are using reporting as a way to get revenge for someone telling them, truthfully, that they suck. People troll others to get them banned. Among other things.
It never made sense when they started and it still doesn’t make sense now. I got rid $ of my main account shortly after it was introduced anyway. The companies that will be successful in this area are the ones who will take a measured approach rather than riots heavy handed vindictive “I got bullied in school” approach.
u stalkin m3 m8?
problem m8?
no m9
Telling someone “they suck” is not constructive criticism. Also, it’s never just “you suck” it’s more like “omg noob faggot don’t take my kill/what a shitty build you got//fucking jungler never ganks/my team is always shit why am I at elohell”.
Bullying is a serious issue, joking about it doesn’t help your position.
well for some people its constructive when someone tells them they are messing up. Also not quite sure why it matters if its not constructive. Should we ban everybody who isn’t being constructive?
The only one i see a problem with in your example is the one that talks about sexual preference. Otherwise the rest are just variations on “you suck” with the last one showing frustration. None of those should be something a person can be banned for. How do you justify banning people for what essentially is complaining about the situation they are in? Should nobody ever be frustrated in the game? Its like some twilight-zone where we all pretend to be happy or die.
Joking about what? I joked about bullying in the post you are replying to? btw what is bullying? I don’t consider my teacher a bully if he fails me or anybody else a bully when they tell me something I did IRL was dumb. If I kept doing it would I be right to start thinking they are bullies for reminding me when I did it that its dumb? If every negative experience is bullying then maybe stay offline. Some people won’t like you and will voice it.
I’m a victim of bad justice. When I get into a “play it safe and stay near tower” strategy 4 of the teammates start bitching that I was afk. I kept getting suspended over the course of 2 years. The rest is history. My sole purpose when I log into Lol is to get players upset into saying unacceptable things then I hist the ban button
button. I promote injustice by simply hitting the button on the tribunal.
Really not interested in a discussion about the definition of the word “bullying”, just google it.
My point is if it isn’t constructive it really isn’t helpful to them or you, if someone is doing bad they already know. You’re wasting time just pointing that and potential make them feel worse, do worse and your team will be less likely to win. They died twice in a row? Tell them to stay away from the enemy and just try to cs. Jungler is getting his buffs stolen? Tell them to ward em’. Encouragement like that at least has a chance of helping them meaning you’ll be more likely to win.
Doesnt fit the definition of bullying.
insulting someone or complaining in general can be said to not be constructive or help them or you. I’m still waiting for the connection between it not being the most effective option and the person deserving a permanent ban (or being shot in real life).
Riot takes it too far
Still not interested in the perdantics of apparent word definitions.
I already explained the logic behind it. I don’t know where Riot get their statics that they post in game saying some percent of people lose more games when they lose but I’m sure no evidence suggests anything possessive is gained from negative/non-constructed comments one could describe as bullying.
Maybe they do take it too far, I won’t be commenting further on this topic.
Those statistics are circular. People who lose more games are more likely to get angry, so what should i make of people who get angry losing more games? Never thought there was a point in those stats, but Riot likes to do rioty things.