Bring Back Player-run Tribunal

Ever since the Tribunal was removed, it seemed the onslaught of toxic players has spiked, even with this new automated banning system riot has recently implemented. We are a community with a standard, and here's why we deserve to have a hand in shaping ourselves as a whole.

• The fact of the matter is, trolls and toxic players KNOW they won't be punished as harshly or at all. "report me I won't get banned" The program running for Riot to ban people is for language, which is a problem, but the differentiation between simply joking with someone and flaming may be blurred. Friends can casually call each other out simply messing with each other, and that's fine, but a computer doesn't know the difference. I recognize that sarcasm is harder to see through text, but a human can at least detect it, and then act upon it. You can still flame someone without cursing, and its more frustrating to deal with that than someone cussing another out. "That was the easiest match I've ever played, I don't think you could've done worse" stings more than "f**king n00bs"

• It improves the player experience to be connected to the community. When the old Tribunal was up and I had time to mess around, I personally felt good that the cases I had judged impacted the community. It was a feeling that I was helping other players avoid the toxicity that was experienced before, and although some troll could smurf and do it again, it could be stopped. If you(Riot) let the players decide, as a majority, it can be changed drastically in that the entire community improves.

• Toxic players need to see that people agree their behavior is crap, not a computer telling them. Back in my early days of League, I flamed. But the one time I received a warning saying "Hey, everyone has bad days... don't flame or whatever" I brushed it off so quickly. If it were a message saying "# of summoner's know your behavior is crap, you need to change it", it would've been a different response by me. There will be people in a Tribunal who troll and obviously be the devil's advocate, but a solution would be to discount them, since its obvious their reasoning is incorrect. Trolls will be trolls but its imperative that a troublemaker sees their peers hold contempt for their actions. No honest player wants to be the slime of the community, so if they understand their actions are visibly slimy, they'll change.

We, the community, deserve a say in who we are and who we play with. We need the ability to improve our online community directly, and from there, we can repair LoL's community image from being saltier and nastier than a sea-urchin's arse.