Originally Posted by Kezzer

i should just have wrote OMG NERF TRBUNAL ITS SO UNFAIR QQ RIOT SUCks
then I have 16 pages of replies and +5millions votes..

Originally Posted by Doghealer

An honest response:

In theory, your idea is good.

In reality, it wouldn't work.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of people these days do not remember positive things about a person. Pick any ten magazines: I can almost guarantee that nine of them will either have some sort of incriminating news (Example: Celebrity X cheats on Celebrity Y), or simply not be a magazine that focuses on such topics. It's rare that, in the media, someone is actually praised. The sad thing is, people usually do more good things than bad, but when you ignore all those good things, everyone looks like a complete and total jerk.

The even more unfortunate thing is the overall media influence on society. Because the media negatively criticizes everything they possibly can, society in general follow suit. The community of League of Legends is no exception.

What this means is that you are very unlikely to be given any +1 votes, even if you were the best player on your team and pretty much carried it, while you're very likely to receive plenty of -1s when you just have a bad game.

What I foresee happening if this were to be implemented is everyone having a negative score. True, the real "bads" will have a MORE negative score, but nobody will be positive.

A better solution would be to completely remove the +0 option, and have all votes default to +1. Even this has it's faults, however.

Originally Posted by Litral

In my experience that would get you 2 replies saying "u mad" and -11 votes, then closed thread.

I don't think anyone would want a reputation system. The thing is, you know that tons of people are going to -1 that player who they find annoying just because they gloated or something. Gloating is not against the summoner's code, it's not wrong, it just annoys the people you defeated because it makes them butthurt. And there's no easy system that automatically says "your -1 is wrong, it's not counted" (you could devise one but that just adds even more complication).

You've probably seen that case in the tribunal where the only thing someone said the entire game was "lol easier than bots" after victory and all of the 5 enemies reported him for offensive language/verbal abuse. The same enemies would -1 this guy for the reputation system.

There's probably lots of other behavior (e.g. just having a bad game, or being a bit bossy) that would get you -1 reputation while you didn't break the code at all.

And people could just -1 everyone they see because they want everyone else to be punished. You know there are people like that, this is the internet.

The opposite could be true too - a tight knot of people (e.g. high elos, who often face each other) will just +1 each other for no reason every time they play just so they get the rewards.