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Fantastic work. Thanks for posting it.

A very impressive talk. Thanks, Jeffery.

Absolutely amazing. Really enjoyed this talk, thanks for this post.

Priming has applications far beyond this. I am glad to see designers experimenting with it, I think it could be a powerful tool towards more emotionally effective game design. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!

If they ban all toxic players they have, they go bankrupt in 1 year or so.
All of this is just Riot trying to address the bad PR they have as so called the worst online gaming community ever.
Their community is that bad because that is the way they wanted to build it up. Now, probably is too late to reverse this situation. At least more than 30 ppl I know no more plays this game because of such bad community.

Good talk for Riot. I think that this not only affects the in game behavior but also the personal behavior in the day by day life.
Excellent job, my respects.

Ugghhh, the claims of Jeffrey Lin of Riot games are absolutelu

Ughhhhh, the claims in this video are absolutely hog wash and future game designers should take this approach with a grain of salt. At the beginning stages of the tribunal initiative, Jeffrey Lin had the bright idea of giving rewards to voters in the tribunal, if the voters came to a general consensus they would be rewarded with points within the game that allowed them to unlock characters in the game. However, what ended up happening was every voter spammed the punish button in order to be in collusion with other voters in order to receive rewards. So even if one was innocent of toxic behavior, they were still screwed because the community always voted to punish in order to get rewards. After a year of banning innocent people from the game Lin finally figured out that it probably was a bad idea to reward collusion. His next indevour was to set up a ladder system for voting, the ladder works like this. The more accurate the vote the higher you are on the ladder, simple right? Not really. This ladder system still favors collusion. There have been multiple experiments done on the League of Legends forums where users auto vote to punish in the tribunal. The sad part is the people that auto vote punish usually had a higher ladder ranking than the voters who actually took the time to go through the cases. In the end the "experiments" Lin is trying to portray as scientific in this video are nothing more than a scientific fantasy.

Great presentation. As a player, I'm a fan of Riot's reporting system because it gives the player a sense of empowerment, particularly as there are a vast number of categories from which the player can select, even providing commentary on the behavior. I appreciated the reporting system from the start...It demonstrates that Riot cares about the players, as I assumed it also meant that the company was doing what it could to eliminate negative player behavior. After learning more about the Tribunal system and, from this presentation, the different ways in which Riot tries to diminish toxic player behavior, it makes me more optimistic about continuing reformation of player behavior.

I just hope the majority of players fully utilize the reporting system! I'd imagine there is also a beneficial impact on gameplay XP via the rewards players receive for positive behavior (Influence Points). It'd be interesting to see the stats on that and also the variations by country and gender.

There probably isn't a way to check back on a player you've reported, but for an overly negative game (one that sticks out in your mind weeks, months later), it would be nice to know what happened as a result. For the most part, my gameplay XP has been mostly positive, however the extreme racism that was once sustained throughout the entire course of a match is something I will not forget...It entirely inhibited communication, since serving as a Sp-Eng translator or communicating in Spanish with the other teammate would have further instigated the constant verbal attack of the other...

But, great job on Riot's part for developing the Tribunal system and continuing to work on the tough issues online gaming presents. It's a huge problem to tackle, but the improvements they've made are great for the entire community. Hopefully players will take what they learn from LoL as unacceptable online behavior and apply it to other online games.


Off subject - Online games are interesting from the standpoint of immersion because, no matter what gender you are, you are automatically transformed into a male player. The strangest one for me is when I'm called "bro." : ) Immersion kind of goes out the window at that point lol.