What exactly are the punishments for intentionally leaving a ranked game?

Jxi·May 5, 2015·1 votes·1,217 views

Just this game I had a Vayne leave within 3 minutes, intentionally. She rage quit because her "internet connection was bad" and said if we didn't like it, she'd leave. So she left. Her support, Alistar, then left too. We lost within 13 minutes. Extremely frustrating, as I'm trying to get this account into plat with my other. Needed that win to get into silver promos, but now I'm on 60LP again.

Got me thinking, I'd like to know the severity of punishments for intentional AFKs. In my opinion, if you leave intentionally, it should be a 3 month ban. It's second only to intentional feeding/trolling, which should be permanent. Now, I doubt that these bans are anywhere near as lengthy but I was wondering if anyone knew? It'd make me feel slightly better knowing that the "Report for AFK" option actually did something and the offender received a worthy punishment.

Wasn't sure what section to put this in, so it's gone in the general gameplay one.

10 Comments

Nameless VoiceMay 5, 20151 votes

There's no penalty unless they do it regularly.

Even when they clearly left the game maliciously and not because of external factors or network problems, there's no penalty for the first time.

Kristari ZuboroMay 5, 20151 votes

It's not about you, it's about reforming the abuser, which means there aren't harsh penalties at first.

JxiMay 5, 20151 votes

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It's not about you, it's about reforming the abuser, which means there aren't harsh penalties at first.

If you left games when you were mad, do you honestly think a 1 day back is going to stop you?

DreadlocksMay 5, 20151 votes

It might be 1 day at first, but if it becomes a common thing they increase the duration...

KrigjerMay 5, 20151 votes

There can't be too harsh of a punishment (like a three month ban) because the system can't really tell the difference between a legit ragequit and a disconnect. People report for legitimate disconnects all the time. Personally I don't report unless there was verbal proof in chat that they were going to ragequit, but not everyone is like me.

JxiMay 5, 20151 votes

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There can't be too harsh of a punishment (like a three month ban) because the system can't really tell the difference between a legit ragequit and a disconnect. People report for legitimate disconnects all the time. Personally I don't report unless there was verbal proof in chat that they were going to ragequit, but not everyone is like me.

As I said, when someone announces in chat that they are leaving because of X, it's intentional.

The "Report for AFK" should be viewing the chat log and picking up on that.

DedriusMay 5, 20151 votes

How do you prove you left intentionally vs not intentionally?

"I didn't leave intentionally, my dog ran over and knocked my computer off my desk and it shut off!"

Or what if someone had a real life emergency that they had to leave for? You think they deserve a 3 month ban because they needed to rush to the hospital from a family member being hurt? (Someone in my game a while back said they had to leave due to this)

JxiMay 5, 20151 votes

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How do you prove you left intentionally vs not intentionally?

"I didn't leave intentionally, my dog ran over and knocked my computer off my desk and it shut off!"

Or what if someone had a real life emergency that they had to leave for? You think they deserve a 3 month ban because they needed to rush to the hospital from a family member being hurt? (Someone in my game a while back said they had to leave due to this)

As I said in my OP, if you had bothered to read, people like to announce that they're leaving. "F*ck you guys, I'm not playing with you, I'm afk until the game ends" and then seeing "Summoner X has left the game", in my book, constitutes as undeniable proof that they intentionally left.

DedriusMay 5, 20151 votes

Well most trolls aren't dumb enough to say "I am about to intentionally leave the game" which I feel is the real problem that needs to be dealt with. Just like most people don't say "I'm about to intentionally feed the other team"