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Chat Restriction

Strundwiin··1 votes·1,151 views

I'll admit, I have been toxic before. However, that's not to say others have not. I have several friends that on several occasions have told other players to commit suicide and have not been punished but one person can report me for saying be quiet when they are flaming and I receive a 42 game chat restriction.

  About the chat restriction. This punishment is even worse than being suspended, in my opinion. It makes playing ranked near impossible unless you are duo, have at least 3 people in the game in Curse Voice or Skype or have a Ranked 5s team. Not only can you have a maximum of 5 messages every 10 minutes, if you don't say anything in the beginning of the game, the spare messages do not go over that 5 limit. I feel the messages should cap at 10 and you should get one every minute instead of every 2 or 4 (not quite sure what the ratio is right now). It makes solo queue literally impossible and on several occasions I have gotten reported for Verbal Abuse for not saying anything and then get smacked with another chat restriction. And it makes coordinating at all in ranked a struggle as well. Not only limited to around 50 characters in said sentence every 2 to 4 minutes, but some people get angry at you for not answering a question they asked or you can't communicate a team fight or strategy. I get that chat restrictions are supposed to influence toxic players to be less toxic but if so, you should drastically improve your justice system because I should not get chat restricted for shh and someone gets off scot free after asking someone to kill themselves.

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Zushakon1 votes

I'll admit, I have been toxic before. However, that's not to say others have not.

Irrelevant. They will get their due, just as you got yours.

  About the chat restriction. This punishment is even worse than being suspended, in my opinion. It makes playing ranked near impossible unless you are duo, have at least 3 people in the game in Curse Voice or Skype or have a Ranked 5s team. Not only can you have a maximum of 5 messages every 10 minutes, if you don't say anything in the beginning of the game, the spare messages do not go over that 5 limit. I feel the messages should cap at 10 and you should get one every minute instead of every 2 or 4 (not quite sure what the ratio is right now). It makes solo queue literally impossible and on several occasions I have gotten reported for Verbal Abuse for not saying anything and then get smacked with another chat restriction. And it makes coordinating at all in ranked a struggle as well. Not only limited to around 50 characters in said sentence every 2 to 4 minutes, but some people get angry at you for not answering a question they asked or you can't communicate a team fight or strategy.

I'm having a really hard time finding any sympathy for you. One message every couple of minutes + pings seems like adequate communication to me. You should be playing the game, not writing a novel in chat. Chat should be short, relevant, and to the point.

I get that chat restrictions are supposed to influence toxic players to be less toxic but if so, you should drastically improve your justice system because I should not get chat restricted for shh and someone gets off scot free after asking someone to kill themselves.

It sounds like the system is working just fine to me. If anything, the fact that you can still play and communicate seems quite lenient. Play out your 42 games and don't say anything unless it is really important.

Tankcat1 votes

I agree with op. My point of view is different though. If I am in a game the only time I say something in chat is if I am trying to promote teamwork ( lets do dragon or group top and push) That is it. The problem is if some troll or rager on your team isnt doing well and you say something like this they get mad at you and something like F$%K you noob we cant do dragon. This makes everyone mad and most people would just ignore him but not me. I respond and let him know that he is being toxic and not helping the team win. Usually I end up muting them and reporting them after the game. But they will ALWAYS report you back. Never fails they will report everyone on the team if they arent sure who it was. So when I get chat restricted and I've never cussed someone out or said racist remarks like I see I can only assume I'm getting restricted for trying to convince these trolls to stop flaming. With out any human interaction involved in these auto bans people are just getting chat restricted and ranked bans left and right because they reported a troll and got reported back. Back in the tribunal players could see that the person that reported me was actually the one flaming and I was just trying to get them to stop and I would get pardoned. Their is no pardon with this auto system. You are automatically guilty as soon as the troll reports you back.

TL:DR getting reported for reporting a flamer gets you chat restricted and ranked ban, its a broken automated system with no human interaction involved. Bring back tribunal

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