Allow Community to Help Kick Throwers
Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 5:55 pm
I'm sure almost everyone who actually enjoys this game is tired of the intentional throwers that target Town of Salem. I'm not talking about the Vig or Jailor who killed town thinking they were evil or the GF that targets alerted Vet...mistakes happen and all of us get fooled, miss a vital clue and commit actions that some mistake to be throwing. I'm talking about the ones that join just to spam, out mafia D1 or intentionally use OP roles like Jailor/Mayor to throw. I know in this day & age that permanently blocking someone from accessing your site or game is virtually impossible, and even the $5 paywall that was setup to help avoid this...clearly hasn't done much (beyond rightfully support a fun game).
Legit players do their best to report throwers, but there aren't enough staff around to go through and take action in the moment. There's no way to get in touch with an admin in the moment...while the culprit is actively ruining games...to make them stop. So you're forced to essentially abandon games when you see their name pop up in the lobby....and hope they'll eventually be taken care of.
At least for Classic and Ranked Practice modes you can see who is in the lobby before it starts....so this suggestion is really only useful in these modes:
It would be great if the majority could vote to kick somebody out of the lobby before the game starts. Give the community a chance to moderate their own games. It's quite often that those that stay to the end and play back to back games...tend to end up in the same lobby over and over again. Allow this group of players to help inform others and remove problematic players from ruining the next match.
You could even introduce a honor system of some sort that's visible to everyone...and curated by everyone. It's determined by the number of reports filed against the account. This honor level is displayed in the lobby so the majority know who shouldn't stick around. I understand that a system like this will result in salty people giving salty reports...but typically the type of person I'm seeking to help eliminate would likely be reported in greater numbers & more frequently that you'd be able to tell the difference between a couple salty reports across many games and almost everyone in the game reporting them every game.
Legit players do their best to report throwers, but there aren't enough staff around to go through and take action in the moment. There's no way to get in touch with an admin in the moment...while the culprit is actively ruining games...to make them stop. So you're forced to essentially abandon games when you see their name pop up in the lobby....and hope they'll eventually be taken care of.
At least for Classic and Ranked Practice modes you can see who is in the lobby before it starts....so this suggestion is really only useful in these modes:
It would be great if the majority could vote to kick somebody out of the lobby before the game starts. Give the community a chance to moderate their own games. It's quite often that those that stay to the end and play back to back games...tend to end up in the same lobby over and over again. Allow this group of players to help inform others and remove problematic players from ruining the next match.
You could even introduce a honor system of some sort that's visible to everyone...and curated by everyone. It's determined by the number of reports filed against the account. This honor level is displayed in the lobby so the majority know who shouldn't stick around. I understand that a system like this will result in salty people giving salty reports...but typically the type of person I'm seeking to help eliminate would likely be reported in greater numbers & more frequently that you'd be able to tell the difference between a couple salty reports across many games and almost everyone in the game reporting them every game.