Small thing to help with disconnects
If a player disconnects, the rest of their team gains a bonus 4.75 gold-per-10-seconds, as if the passive gold gained by the disconnected player is split among their teammates, or whatever balanced figure it would take make it a notable but not game breaking advantage.
It's not enough to make or break a game that other team members would bully someone to leave so they can get their items a little faster. It mostly benefits teams that have to deal with a disconnect at the start of a match, which is when (I would think thanks to errors and crashes) they'd be most likely to happen.
The disconnected player would still gain their own gold passively so they're not completely useless should they return. Before you claim that the team with a disconnect would get a gold advantage, keep in mind that the disconnected player won't be getting any last hits or exp.