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Hello everybody!
As I promised in my very first blog post, I'll be looking into the League of Legend's Tribunal cases and such. Today, I prepared a little "how to" about reporting players. It will be a wall of text I'm afraid, so I decided to split it into 2 parts. If you can read it all, I (and the other reviewers) will be grateful :-)
Not everybody has time or mood to review cases and judge them, but everyone of us is reporting trolls, noobs and toxic players every now and then. And since you can make the case much easier to jujdge for us, here are some tips on how to do it.
Three important things you maybe didn't know:
As you can see in the picture, we only see:
Underneath there is just a list of the reported player's team, with champion's icons, their K/D/A ratio and list of items they had in the inventory when the game ended. Reported player's champion is first of all, no matter what ratio he has.
1. Report the right player
Happened to me few times - I was reviewing the case but could not find a single "wrong" he did. He got reported by his teammate for "Negative attitude", but his K/D/A ratio was fine (he wasn't best but not worst as well), his end-game items were all right and the team chat was "rude-free" as well (he even encouraged his teamamtes when they were loosing).
My guess is, that the reporter missclicked and reported the wrong player. Be careful wit this. You can get solid player into trouble just by a missclick.
2. Use correct report reason
Sometimes I see people report players for incorrect reason. Like my last one - someone reported player for "Griefing: Intentional Feeding". When I checked his K/D/A ratio it said 6/3/12 and there were far more worse ratios than that. Luckily - when I checked the team chat, our "suspect" was using vocabulary of a drunken sailor, so I voted for punishing.
But I could save some time if he was reported for "Verbal abuse".
3. Give us some more information, if needed
At the beginning of this post, you can see what we can see. If you think that your teammate (or enemy) is trolling, intentionally feeding or doing whatever we can't see from your chatbox and his K/D/A ratio, use the "Note box" and write down some of the annoying stuff he did. Otherwise we don't know what was going on and can't judge properly.
The same goes for troll pick. Maybe we can see that he picked.. let's say Annie.. and you report him because you called mid first and picked your... let's say Fiddle... first, but we can't see that. We may even think, that you were the one who trollpicked Fiddle. So let us know.
4. Use the language of the Kings (English)
I know - not everyone is a native English speaker (I myself am from Slovakia btw. :-P) - but when you do report a player and decide to write down some note, do it in English please. I got my hands on couple of Polish, and even Croatian reports.. but couldn't make a heads and tales out of it. One case was obvious even without that note, but two or three cases I had to skip, since I couldn't figure out what was going on in there. And that goes for all other languages.
There is a good chance that it will get reviewd by people who understand that language, but you waste time of all those who don't (as I spent minutes by checking chatbox and his stats to try to find out if I can make out why he should be punished).
Even badd inglis is betar then you're ovn mumbo-jumbo. (and if you really want to be sure, just use Google Translator)
5. Use your brain
Last, but not at all least. In 95% of reviewed cases I see people spamming "Report XY" or "XY is so noob, feeder, report him all." They even flood the team chat with these kind of things. But before you do report whoever they suggested - please think for yourself.
Most of the time the ones that shout: "Report him!" deserves to be reported instead. Also if your enemy team asks you in the aftermath to report their teammate - just check his K/D/A, item set and try to remember if you encountered him in the game. If you did not and don't know if he was really so bad or trolling, don't report. Don't be a sheep. There are real people behind these chatacters, and each of us have a bad day sometime. Just be human and think. We, case reviewers, will take care of the rest ;-)
Thank you for reading, guys, if you have any question - just ask in the comment section below. Next time we will look closely on the reporting options. See you soon!
As I promised in my very first blog post, I'll be looking into the League of Legend's Tribunal cases and such. Today, I prepared a little "how to" about reporting players. It will be a wall of text I'm afraid, so I decided to split it into 2 parts. If you can read it all, I (and the other reviewers) will be grateful :-)
Not everybody has time or mood to review cases and judge them, but everyone of us is reporting trolls, noobs and toxic players every now and then. And since you can make the case much easier to jujdge for us, here are some tips on how to do it.
Three important things you maybe didn't know:
- we (reviewers) do not see any nicknames, only name of the champions you were playing
- we don't even see who sent the report
- we don't see what you (or reported player) said in lobby or in "aftermath screen"
- there is nothing like a video recording of your match, for us to watch
As you can see in the picture, we only see:
- how many people reported the player
- the reason of report
- some game statistic (outcome, game time, etc.)
- in-game chat
Underneath there is just a list of the reported player's team, with champion's icons, their K/D/A ratio and list of items they had in the inventory when the game ended. Reported player's champion is first of all, no matter what ratio he has.
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR REPORT
1. Report the right player
Happened to me few times - I was reviewing the case but could not find a single "wrong" he did. He got reported by his teammate for "Negative attitude", but his K/D/A ratio was fine (he wasn't best but not worst as well), his end-game items were all right and the team chat was "rude-free" as well (he even encouraged his teamamtes when they were loosing).
My guess is, that the reporter missclicked and reported the wrong player. Be careful wit this. You can get solid player into trouble just by a missclick.
2. Use correct report reason
Sometimes I see people report players for incorrect reason. Like my last one - someone reported player for "Griefing: Intentional Feeding". When I checked his K/D/A ratio it said 6/3/12 and there were far more worse ratios than that. Luckily - when I checked the team chat, our "suspect" was using vocabulary of a drunken sailor, so I voted for punishing.
But I could save some time if he was reported for "Verbal abuse".
3. Give us some more information, if needed
At the beginning of this post, you can see what we can see. If you think that your teammate (or enemy) is trolling, intentionally feeding or doing whatever we can't see from your chatbox and his K/D/A ratio, use the "Note box" and write down some of the annoying stuff he did. Otherwise we don't know what was going on and can't judge properly.
The same goes for troll pick. Maybe we can see that he picked.. let's say Annie.. and you report him because you called mid first and picked your... let's say Fiddle... first, but we can't see that. We may even think, that you were the one who trollpicked Fiddle. So let us know.
4. Use the language of the Kings (English)
I know - not everyone is a native English speaker (I myself am from Slovakia btw. :-P) - but when you do report a player and decide to write down some note, do it in English please. I got my hands on couple of Polish, and even Croatian reports.. but couldn't make a heads and tales out of it. One case was obvious even without that note, but two or three cases I had to skip, since I couldn't figure out what was going on in there. And that goes for all other languages.
There is a good chance that it will get reviewd by people who understand that language, but you waste time of all those who don't (as I spent minutes by checking chatbox and his stats to try to find out if I can make out why he should be punished).
Even badd inglis is betar then you're ovn mumbo-jumbo. (and if you really want to be sure, just use Google Translator)
5. Use your brain
Last, but not at all least. In 95% of reviewed cases I see people spamming "Report XY" or "XY is so noob, feeder, report him all." They even flood the team chat with these kind of things. But before you do report whoever they suggested - please think for yourself.
Most of the time the ones that shout: "Report him!" deserves to be reported instead. Also if your enemy team asks you in the aftermath to report their teammate - just check his K/D/A, item set and try to remember if you encountered him in the game. If you did not and don't know if he was really so bad or trolling, don't report. Don't be a sheep. There are real people behind these chatacters, and each of us have a bad day sometime. Just be human and think. We, case reviewers, will take care of the rest ;-)
Thank you for reading, guys, if you have any question - just ask in the comment section below. Next time we will look closely on the reporting options. See you soon!
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Cheers, mate, didn't think about using them in the blog... but it looks much better. Btw. I hope I'll get your reports some day, because what you said is exactly what is needed when reviewing cases. That tactics "press the button and make it all go away" is not paying off.
I think the thought that goes though peoples head when reporting is if I only report enough people it will magically match me with better people.
Exactly. And that is why I hope this blog will help at least in some way. To make people realize what is going on and that just reporting is not enough. Later on I will go deeper into this topic, as I think lots of time we can even prevent trolls to go rampage. :-P
I don't think most people understand what the tribunal is really for. I think the thought that goes though peoples head when reporting is if I only report enough people it will magically match me with better people.
This is why I usually write a somethng in the report ticket so the reviewers know what's been going on i.e. in post-game lobby.
EDIT: for example,