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So I'm 14 day ban and I think something went wrong

Lone1yW0LF·1/15/2020, 9:04:12 AM·2 votes·3,495 views

Title says it all, I didn't even know you could get banned from playing and it happened... Also my first boards post, I checked the rules and I don't think there is one against language unless I just missed it so there will be a couple grown up words in this post.

January 14, 2020 I got hit with a 14 day ban, also my account will apparently have restrictions after the ban but I don't quite understand them or know what they are. I have never been banned and was very confused nor was I ever chat banned. The last honor level I remember immediately clicking out of was honor level three so I was at least that. I know now from looking online that it's possible to get the 14 day ban straight up but I think something went wrong here. The typical ban progression according to internet goes like this: 10 game chat restriction, 25 game chat restriction, 14 day play restriction + other stuff I don't get, then perma ban.

I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't the nicest guy in the third and last game I played the afternoon of July 14th. I was mean to my jungler. I used to almost exclusively spam kindred jung so I know how to path and peek lanes and decide when to roam, I know what a jungler should at least attempt to do even if I'm not the best at it. Our jungler was not the best at it. I'm not gonna say that he was terrible or why he single handedly threw, cause that's just mean and won't solve anything. But I will say this, I have never trolled a game that hard, I have never held my teammates captive just to be a jerk, and I have never just ignored all my lanes and their pings.

I said %%%%%% twice that game, and I said r%%%%% once. Our top called me a %%%%%% so fair, our jung called me somethin after I asked for a gank so whatever. Doesn't make what I did right and I'm not trying to appeal what happened, but then someone I play with fairly regularly noticed something odd so that's what this post is.

Should I have been hit with a 14 day ban no warning?

My short answer is no. That same game I had a friendly chat interaction with the enemy jung who sat in my lane for half the game. I get camped, all the time. When I top lane vs a duo que I get camped. Don't tilt me at all. I just hope our jung will spam gank bot or something but I don't think I'm that terribly toxic of a person for advising my jung nicely to get bot a lead and spam gank for them. Normally I get a Great Shotcalling when I try to be nice and help guide my jung to other lanes. I looked online to figure out why a free game that someone could just make an alt account would start players with a 14 day ban and I think I agree with the reasoning.

A toxic person can just make an alt and be toxic, so the 14 day ban is a huge inconvenience for a person who just grinded bot games to get an account to a high enough level just to flame teammates. Makes sense. I am not that person though. I was honor level 3+ (no clue what that means) I get key fragments all the time when I log in for recent honors, and I have played a loooooot of games on this account vs players. It's not like I just made it and insta flamed.

Is the system automated?

That's what this comes down to. It has to be, it's so fast and with so many reports it has to be. If it's not then rip me, I guess riot has it out for me lol.

I saw someone post their chat logs from their 14 day ban, and there were three of them. Only them talking just like what the game shoved in my nose like a bad dog. The ones I saw posted had a thing that showed what was all chat but I suppose the person could've added that because mine doesn't show me that. Here's the thing, I only have one log. One log. One game. That's it.

I know all the reports people hit you with are supposed to add up, but I only have the log from one game. One game, a 14 day ban and now the threat of perma over my head. One game, all that time wasted. League is a big part of my and my girlfriends life right now and this ban hits her too. The stuff she got me for our 6 month anniversary was almost all league, and I got her the dead Teemo figure and the Tibbers plush as well as league gift card as part of her present. This ban hit me hard. I was mean in chat, but a ban? I never troll or int or throw. Even if I got permanently chat banned I could at least play, but no.

My friends theory:

He told me that league just switched over to the global username thing when I told him about my ban, he asked me if I changed mine yet. I said I wasn't told to so mine must be a unique name. Then it hit him. That was why. The game just updated. I had just ranted about why I understood hitting a new account with a 14 day ban but I thought it was unjust in this case. He just said "What if it is a new account to the game? I mean it just updated all the accounts to be globally unique..."

I think this was it. My third game, a brand new account to the system, I got reported and some robot script saw that I said %%%%%% twice and r%%%%% once. Ban. It makes sense doesn't it? If that were that accounts third game then that's fair right? I think it would be. The thing is that wasn't my third game on that account, it was one bad out of a hundred great ones, and it wasn't even really bad. I've had people say much, much worse and I didn't get the "action was taken" message. I know its only for the last people that reported it but one game is all it took for me, why not them? I'm not just here to whine and say its unfair, I don't actually care if they get a short comms ban where they can't bm. But 14 days? One chat log, one game. Completely ignoring my honor level (seriously what is that). It's crazy to me.


So why am I makin this? I'm done ranting and I know nothing will get done, I can't appeal a ban, I can't save my account or the money or time I spent on it. I'm posting this cause I have a question, am I that toxic? And can I save my account and the many amazing, happy, and sometimes slightly frustrating moments when I point blank miss everything and somehow give away the worlds most free first blood. I just wanna know if my account is dead. My profile now shows no honor, not just a drop in a tier and I don't wanna get perma banned. I'm only level like 40 tho and I haven't got into ranked. If it's not against the TOS I'm gonna make an alt to play with my gf on, even if I have to grind bot games and blind pick. 

Also if this is an intentional thing the ban system does where it just randomly looks at reports and banns one in a dozen then I will most definitely never spend money or buy my gf a card to get skins again. I know she'd be crushed if an adc flamed her for missing a bind and she calls him out just to get banned. (also didn't get to play Sett, feelzbadman)

17 Comments

GreenKnight1/15/2020, 9:15:48 AM3 votes

Wrong board.

And saying shit you said generally results in a higher punishment, at least that's what i noticed from similar situations that were posted on boards, and your honor level has no impact on the report system.

But, you weren't banned permanently. When your current suspension ends, you still have a chance of redeeming your account standing, as long as you don't exhibit toxic behaviour.

And yes, you are free to make an alternative account, as long as you don't share it.

Julevi1/15/2020, 9:28:52 AM2 votes

{quoted} I said %%%%%% twice that game, and I said r%%%%% once.

I guess the first censored word is either a homophobic slur (starting with f) or the n-word with -er ending. These things count as "hate-speech" and lead to an escalated punishment-tier as the first offence.

Is the system automated?

That's what this comes down to. It has to be, it's so fast and with so many reports it has to be. I

Yeah, you are right. After a game your (in this case) chatlog will be reviewed in under 15 minutes.

I saw someone post their chat logs from their 14 day ban, and there were three of them.

That's normal. The regular punishment path, as you already mentioned, is a 10 game CR, 25 game CR and a 14-day-ban. Normally not a single game (excluding inting/trolling/griefing/hate-speech) leads to the first ban. Not every chatlog which contains punishable stuff will lead to a punishment- it depends on how toxic you were and the time-intervall where it happened.

Besides that: please don't let friend of yours fabricate theories why the ban happened - check out yourself. You can always ask the board for help, as there are a lot of players with enough knowledge to point out the most important stuff or request that a Riot employee takes a look at it (submit a ticket).

I can't save my account or the money or time I spent on it.

You can - pull yourself together and show constant positive behaviour over a few months - your punishment level can drop.

Malix Farwin1/15/2020, 11:23:01 AM2 votes

Ill be honest with you, the sheer amount of people not trying, learning champs in ranked games, and troll picking has been so high that i am relying HEAVILY on the turn ally chat off feature from not getting banned myself. When i type something and that message says "you need to turn on ally chat" i get a sigh of relief.

ModUlanopo1/15/2020, 4:09:55 PM2 votes

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FURRY V21/15/2020, 9:56:38 AM1 votes

Holy cow. Just copy-paste the log you get when you try to log in instead of writing a bible about your life.

People on the forums already know that every banned person is innocent. We just here to read how unjustified it was to give a ban for asking others to end themselves or making a compliment about their skin color.