In light of the last article by AJ about the banning of
Iwilldominate I offer this little piece to munch on, ok maybe it’s not so little.
Many people who play league of legends have seen the
tribunal by participating it in either as “judge” or being the one “judged”. For anyone who hasn’t experienced the system
here is a small explanation of what it is and how it works. The tribunal is a system which uses in game
reports to decide what conduct is appropriate while playing the game and
interacting with others. These reports
are built up and then given to those participating in the system as “judges.”
The players then decide if the conduct was acceptable or unacceptable which
leads to their verdict of either pardon or punish. Many of you may be thinking “why should the
community make all the decisions of if people are getting punished?” The player
support agents at riot then use this information to hand out penalties if they
truly believe they are warranted. So who
actually gets penalized for their action isn’t directly handled by the
community, the community is able to have some say and build its own sense of
what they do and don’t want allowed. This
was just a very light intro into the tribunal for the official FAQ you can
check out riots website here.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2411284
If you talk to anyone who has been banned you’ll hear the
same story about how they were unjustly banned and how broken the system
is. Then you have the other side where
there are people who take their time on every tribunal case and read the chat
to determine if this person should really be in tribunal or if they are just
being ganged up on by a group of players.
Personally I’ve found this to rarely be the case and these people who
are getting suspended and banned are in the wrong. What I mean by that isn’t necessarily that
they don’t know what they are talking about; they just don’t portray it in a kind
manner. There are a few trends I notice
from doing tribunal on a daily basis that usually lead to bans. Any kind of personal attack is going to get
you in hot water when it comes to going into tribunal and more than often it’s
going to result in some action. The next
big issue to avoid is telling people to kill themselves or that they are
worthless. Once a team becomes
fragmented it is very difficult to repair that and bring everyone back together
to work as a team.
The biggest problem I see consistently with people getting
banned is either racial/gay slurs or just rampant swearing directed at
someone. Saying anything directed towards someone
immediately makes at least me look more at the chat. Words like f*ggot, c*nt, n*gger, etc. are
just not going to fly when it comes to most people for a few reasons. Some people find those works hugely offensive
and those words are just insensitive. I’ve
actually come across people in games who hear those words and politely ask for
the speaker not to use them, from time to time you actually see people who will
say sorry. Other times it just leads to that person getting trolled for the
rest of the game which is completely unacceptable and honestly just annoying to
the rest of the team. That leads into my
next point about trolling; from time to time trolling someone will result in
them just leaving the game. Now a close
game is a four versus five and the people who weren’t involved in the trolling
are punished if the team loses. This is
especially apparent as well as annoying when you are minding your own business
in a ranked game and two teammates get into it.
My biggest pet peeve when it comes to chat in game is saying something along the lines of I hope you or someone
in your family dies. There are a few problems
with this kind of speech online. First,
you don’t know if that person has ever contemplated suicide or god forbid is
currently going through that. They might
attempt to use league as an escape from their real life bullies and now they
are hearing it online. Now they are
dealing with the same negativity they are trying to get away from. Next telling someone that you hope their
(insert family member here) dies is just another issue in itself for a few
reasons. What if that person recently
passed away and this is their form of dealing with the loss? What if that person was really close to the
player you just insulted? What if it’s
both of the above? In one statement you
managed to make that persons day worse than it already was to begin with.
So now we get to how to talk to your teammates and get your
point across without doing either of the above things or anything that might get
you banned. First don’t use anything
that as a negative connotation associated with it, this includes racial slurs, any
swearing, even calling someone a noob can set them off. Instead offer helpful tips to try to improve
their play things like, explaining them why wards are useful or why a certain
champion has an advantage over another champion. Try to be a mentor to your teammates, maybe they recently picked up the game and don't know everything yet. Believe it or not there was a time when you didn't know everything there was to know about the game. The nicer you are to your team the better you
should work together and the better you work together the higher your chances
are that you will win.
Next be humble in victory and understanding in defeat. When you are winning don’t start telling the
other team how much better you are then them or how bad they are. All you have to do is say gg and go into the next
game, maybe you can leave some helpful hints as to why you won. Many times when I win a game as graves
against a Vayne and I see the other team on her case, I just politely say “Vayne
has no early game it is hard for her to compete with Graves at the start. Next time try playing a safer lane and don’t
be so aggressive early.” Sometimes this
will be met with hostility but it has no ill will in the statement and from
time to time someone will say thanks. Then
when you lose don’t just say things like “my team was bad” rather than that
think about what you could’ve done better personally or how you could’ve helped
the team more. Win or lose you should end a game with gg out of respect for your teammates and your opponents.
The best tip I’ve ever gotten from anyone when it comes to
winning games is this, “If you want to win you have to do everything you can to
carry.” This doesn’t mean every game you need to be playing ADC all it means is
every game you need to play to the role you’re in to best give your team an advantage
as well as be positive and encouraging even when the team is getting down. That could mean winning top by warding and
safe play, roaming from mid to help your jungler gank, ganking a lane as the
jungler and snowballing that person into late game, playing to the style of
your ADC as a support, or making smart decisions as the ADC about when to fight
and when to farm. Part of the problem
with games is once the morale starts to slip once people think the game is over. This isn’t true at all because there are many
great comeback victories that have happened both professionally and
online. One team fight can completely
change the games momentum. Keeping morale
high is a key point not only to winning but to having fun while playing. Leading your team with pings and being an
example of a positive player will get you a lot farther with people then
putting them down and making them feel bad.
If this article wasn't enough to persuade you Lyte, Riot's Lead Designer of social systems, recently said this.
"If players are genuinely positive people, they'll get random surprises
and perks like this in League. No one in the industry really does it
like this, but we'll see how it pans out because we're willing to take
risks and just try things. Sometimes we might tie it to lower Reports or
high Honor, sometimes we'll tie it to players with no bans and
sometimes it'll be for positive language such as how often you say "gg"
versus "n*gger." Players who are consistently positive and respectful in
game will find that cool things just happen to them in League."
Remember negativity breeds negativity so next time instead
of being part of the problem try being part of the solution.
Ron Fendo
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