My thoughts on Lyte's mass bans

"less than 1% of players are so persistently negative that they trigger a permanent or 14-day ban, ranked restriction or even a single chat restriction." -Lyte

Dec 1 2014 = Auto 14 day bans for how many now? I had personally never had a ban or even a chat ban before this day, go figure.

" For about 95% of players, they’ll never see these harsh penalties and don’t drift close to negative behavior except on the rare bad day." -Lyte

Sorry, but I call bullshit on this statement because during my few years playing this game, I can safely say that 1/5ths to 2/5ths of they players on ANY given 5s teams are in fact being toxic verbally or even worse, by trolling. That seems like a lot more negative behavior than 5%.

Personally, I think chat bans make more sense if someone is typing something that hurts another persons feels. I think game bans make sense if someone trolls all the time. What doesn't make sense is issuing mass 14 day suspensions for the most varied reasons I have ever seen. This just shows how out of touch the person running this system is with the game and with human behavior. Not allowed to voice frustration in game when someone is feeding and ruining your promo? Okay lets just bottle that up then, that's really healthy. OH! But don't say nothing or tell them you are muting them, that was also a reason another person got a suspension. Give me a freaking break.

Here's the real point I'm trying to make here:

1. If you want to call League of Legends a competitive sport then treat it like one. Do you think hockey players are given 14 day bans when they shit talk the other team? Nope! Realize that random smack talk is part of competition in sports and actually adds to it. Imagine if UFC fighters were ultra polite to each other in the pre fight interviews. BORING.

2. There are features that allow you to chat filter and ignore people. Put on your big girl panties and use them if you can't handle suggestions like "Don't extend too far, just turret farm safe early game" or when you have died for the thousandth time because you won't follow the advice "stop being retarded and feeding".

3. Trolls will always escape punishment and the trolled person will be the one punished. Some sick freaks join games just to throw them and make people rage so they can report them. These tattle tale twits end up getting their jollies off while the trolled person gets a ban for voicing their frustration. Telling people why you are frustrated is a completely normal human function. In fact, in most cases where someone is having a behavioral emergency, just asking them what is wrong will deescalate the situation considerably.

4. The vision is unrealistic. The Internet has been around far longer than League of Legends, and it's utterly psychotic to think that your rules will change how these citizens will operate. There is slang and culture here, and although you don't see the value in it, it exists and is valued by millions of gamers worldwide. There's also the double standard where pro players stream their trolling online for thousands and aren't disciplined at all. Nice double standard there.