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Originally Posted by Lyte Honestly, we don't do a very good job of teaching new players a lot of things. For example, we need to do a better job teaching players about the tools that are available to fight off toxic players. We don't have anything special planned for the Honor Initiative and I feel bad that we're adding to the problem; however, we're going to try to make the Honor Initiative very visible for a period of time so that almost all players will at least see some material about the system and how it works.

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Originally Posted by CupcakeTrap Greetings, Summoner! You are about to begin your first matchmade player-versus-player games. Our Matchmaker system will attempt to place you at an appropriate skill level. However, the system needs data (matches) to do so. Because it is difficult to distinguish new players from experienced players with new accounts, you will likely end up facing experienced players starting new accounts, or "Smurfs". Don't be discouraged! Just have fun and do your best. Unfortunately, we can't tell which of you are new players and which of you are experienced players with new accounts until you start playing. If anyone gives you a hard time, please use our (anonymous) Report function to let us know so we can discipline them. Click the red exclamation mark button next to their name in the post-game lobby. And if you are an experienced player creating a "Smurf" account, please be courteous to new players. Offer advice, but don't scorn their lack of experience. You were new once!

• Mute should be "advertised" to the player, and easily accessible
• Mute should allow pings to go through, so that ignoring everyone (in extremely toxic games) doesn't inhibit your ability to get crucial info via pings
• Honestly, I think a mia ping system would be nice as well. Again, you should be able to turn off the toxic stream of rage without totally blanking out useful tactical info.
• Perhaps have an always-available pre-set list of communication messages? e.g. "Go Baron now", "Mia", "Re", "Go Dragon", "Push Top", "Push mid", "Push bot".

Ok lets say a guy has 50 honor votes from just friends and another guys has 50 and only 10 are from friends obviously the guy who has only 10 from friends is more honorable... it is much more honorable to help someone you don't know and may never meet again than to help a friend you already know... You were probably gonna help those friends anyway. Also many people overlook flaws in their friends... there have been many games where someone was raging at some poor noob and when i said if they didnt stop they might get reported for such behavior their friend that they were duo queuing with of course jumps into chat saying if you report him i'll report you... so in no way can you argue that friend honor should be equal to non friend... but in the same vein when a friend reports a friend for bad behavior i do think that should count for more because a friend is much less likely to do so unless the reportee was doing something SUPER wrong to get his friend to report him. Although i do think a thing like report accuracy should be given to those who give honor to the right people over and over again i can see how this would be hard to do when in one game someone can act honorable and the next be totally toxic.

One vote per person seems pretty straight forward no?

First off-- awesome work, I think this is a great idea.

Secondly, you mentioned a few times that sad things would happen if I were to honor everyone in every game I played. What if I were to award honor to almost everyone I played with--basically I will honor the people I play with unless they do something significant to make a jerk out of themselves. Is that ok?

What if I kept this practice up when I was in a premade (therefore repeatedly honoring my friends, but honoring almost everyone else as well)?