I saw some time ago in the older forums something about an "honor system"
Players rated as good teammates would increase their honor level and gain like a symbol in their portrait which would mean how nice they are. This would positively and slowly erase some of the toxicity, because players with low or no honor would be looked down upon.
There are a few amazing players, good losers and winners, that deserve a “good report” for being a good sport. The only ones that get attention are the toxic ones. It’s so hard to be nice at this game at times, specially with all the people inclining themselves to be hostile, and knowing 50 reports will do nothing to them, so it’s like…encouraged.
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I’d love to have this, let us send a “player commendation” or something. We can leave a nice comment for the player to see or you can just leave them positive rep. 
I think it’d be nice.
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Agreed. All this talk of toxicity, but no channels in acknowledging or rewarding cooperation, comrodary, or positivity.
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The problem is that even an honor system would be abused.
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If we get an honor system we need to do certain things such as not let 6stacks all vote for one guy
People will just farm votes in an honor system.
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League of Legends actually has a system like this you can choose to honor someone at the end of the game and there are different choices on what to compliment them for, also when complimented it will show up on their profile how much they are honored and in what category, i agree with you on this being a useful feature and getting a better understanding of the people your playing with.
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I think this would be great, but it would be abused just like everything in this game😒
But Jelly is still all for the idea.
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It’d also be cool of the players could have like a rating screen in their profile where you could see all the good reviews. It could leave players the option to leave the review anonymously or just as themselves. There could be a system where maybe after so many good reviews you get like a lootbox or a handful of gold credits to. It’d definitely feel nice to see that your kindness is actually being recognized.
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that’s a valid point. Maybe dont let people in stacks vote for their friends in the group?
considering the amoun of people playing solo q in this game, this would be a tool more for solo q
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I support good reports. Give special recognition to friendly and helpful players in game.
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Agreed, there are a good number of strangers I run into while playing that I feel deserve some kind of “thank you for being a genuinely kind person.”
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Yeah it’d be nice if we could click a heart next to someone’s name for quick positive feedback. Reminds me of Pokémon’s online system haha.
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It’s easy to stop by just making votes from the same person and friends weigh less.
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Reward the good players that spread goodness. Yes please.
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I do not think it would be an effective idea at all. Who would actually care about their honor and who would actually care about other players’ honor? Unless the honor does something, then it is just an extra system that causes unnecessary stress. If it did do something, then it would increase toxicity or at least lead to more negative experiences in the game. Imagine somebody caring about their honor and trying gain some each game, but nobody awards them any honor: it would become very discouraging to keep trying. And what would you suppose Blizzard does to people with low or no honor? Ban them? New players will begin with low or no honor and they are forced to be “good players” to prevent their money spent on this game from going down the drain?
I will pass, thank you.
Liked and bumped. /char
1.- I would deeply care about honor, I know many would do too.
2.- I think a negative experience is dealing with toxic people that is toxic because they need like 100 reports to be at least silenced, so they dont care, and they keep being toxic. That’s negative.
3.- people who try to gain honor and don’t get any, and get toxic for it, it’s just a dumb idea, they will have to act positive to gain honor. You know acting certain way makes your brain believe that’s your actual mood?, if you act angry you will be angry, if you act happy you will be happier. It goes even beyond than just a in game system. It’s psychology.
4.- no banning people for low honor, just let them be, that’s how a positive system works, where people try themselves to improve to be accepted.
5.- well ok, bye! you’re too negative LMAO
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I am not being negative. I am saying it is not a good idea. If the honor does nothing, then nobody is going to care about it, plain and simple. You might, but what are you actually going to do if you come across a player with low honor? Not talk to them? It is just an extra system with no positive or negative effects and it will add stress to players who care about their game profiles.
Now, if we are talking about this system somehow hurting game play for other players, then it will never happen. Blizzard has set rules and terms for the community and if you are not in violation of those terms, you can play the game like anyone else. If Blizzard provides favoritism to players with high honor, it will just kill the game because players will move to a different game if their honor gets too low.
There are no benefits to this system.
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Oh now I get it, that’s actually a valid point. I thought about it to combat toxicity, but seeing it this way… it actually doesn’t do much.
I guess we gotta go back at making reports and banning stronger.
At this point, honor would serve almost a cosmetic purpose. I would still like to have it though, people would try to improve to have nice things in their portrait, showing they have high honor, for example.
Maybe it could unlock some things?
Streamers could easily rack up points from their followers. If streamers can convince people to throw high rank matches or harass other players, they can easily get false praise.
So any reward should be out of the question.