30 days later - bullies not banned, the victims 2-week bans, gg Riot

b1TLHaKERl·4/7/2015, 6:57:19 AM·210 votes·12,075 views

On 03/06/2015 a friend of mine, a rather timid individual, who doesn't believe in using vulgarity or name calling, was being bullied in a Normal game. In fact, 3 people continually harassed her, and said there was nothing she could do about it, and that they would report her. When she asked why, they said, "For being a homosexual." 30 days later, these 3 bullies remain un-banned, and my friend, despite never using vulgarity or name calling, has received a 2-week ban. When she asked customer support, they gave her an automated reply. Riot, once again, your system has failed. The bullies were right, they can get you banned, and they succeeded. Glad I am now moving on to Heroes of the Storm, where the employees actually read each report, and Blizzard doesn't ban the victims. In fact, Blizzard doesn't even get involved unless it's an extreme circumstance, which this would definitely qualify as. Riot, at this point, it's not laziness, you are just evil.

256 Comments

I Kill Commies4/7/2015, 7:06:30 AM104 votes

You don't get a 2 week ban for being reported in one of your games. It takes like dozens of games of constant toxicity to get a 2 week ban, which is one step away from a perma ban. There's no way your friend got a 2 week ban because people false reported her in 1 game, absolutely no way.

EDIT: Don't you think it's overboard calling Riot evil? No matter how shitty you think their reporting system is, I find it hard to justify it as being evil. Do you even know the definition of that word? When I think of evil I think of serial killers, brutal dictators, hitler, etc. Are you seriously saying that Riot Games deserves to be grouped with those kinds of people, just because of a fault you perceive in their game?

Sythriel Draken4/7/2015, 7:02:22 AM65 votes

I completely concur with this statement. Today, I was harassed in several games throughout, as well as on the post game screen (which riot is too lazy to check) and just after my second to last game, I got a warning for verbal harassment, even tho I was the one that GOT harassed.. This abuse needs to stop. I love league (and also play heroes of the storm) but if I'm getting in trouble just because people click one button even tho I don't do anything, this needs to stop.

Angelflame1114/7/2015, 7:05:03 AM28 votes

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Sailor Mint4/7/2015, 1:54:03 PM26 votes

So, where's the proof?

Most threads like this end with a public smiting.

Edit: 5 days ago it was your main account that got "banned in an experiment".

mirAcIe4/7/2015, 9:23:57 AM21 votes

inb4 lyte smite

Time and Logic4/7/2015, 7:06:47 AM18 votes

Wow... Rito fix this.

thinking man4/7/2015, 11:28:49 AM14 votes

I believe this story and wholeheartedly agree that they were unjustly banned and did nothing to deserve such a ban and that Riot is secretly the 4th Reich and your friend was caught within their anti-playerbase blitzkrieg.

Colgate Gator4/7/2015, 3:07:03 PM12 votes

You don't get banned over one game where you bickered with someone.

a 2 weeks ban is actually a pretty serioues one, as it's pretty much the step before a permanent ban over toxic behaviour. I'd suggest you tell your "timid friend" to go easy on the keyboard.

EDIT: Nvm, I remembered your name now, you're the guy who keeps bitching about this game and even said you were going to go to court against Riot for a full refund, how's that thing going anyhow?

Butterwood4/7/2015, 1:49:07 PM12 votes

Based off Winterglow's other threads, I'm guessing this is another one-sided story. I thought you were quitting, and your "study" was your Swan Song of sorts?

Gavran4/7/2015, 8:01:36 PM10 votes

No evidence, false premise, absurd morality assignment and threat to go play a different game... I'm doubting you're genuine.

If I'm wrong: your friend got banned for some other reason, nothing to do with a handful of dumb trolls.

Migrañaboy4/7/2015, 3:08:08 PM10 votes

You will need a bigger bait OP. System doesn't ban you based on reports anymore.

AraMoOse4/7/2015, 5:28:20 PM10 votes

I call bullshit.

This story is not new. Back when there was a tribunal and report cards, people would try that "It's not me, it's everyone else" excuse. Back then all we needed to do was ask the person to submit their report card. Sure enough, either the person disappeared or provided the report card which made it abundantly clear the report was deserved.

       Then they stopped giving report cards, so people would try again : "I didn't do NUTHIN! it's everyone else! oh and RIOT too! It's Riot's fault". So lyte offered to review the reports of people who were complaining of being falsely punished.  SURE ENOUGH, it became abundantly clear the reports were deserved. 

        You'll forgive me for not taking you seriously.
TenSlashTen4/7/2015, 2:23:06 PM10 votes

do you know how many bans in a row it takes to get to a 2 week ban status?

The moment you tried to defend a player with a 1 week+ ban status I knew you were full of it.

Looks like your friend is a real loudmouth toxic piece of trash. Having a taste of their own medicine and can't take it.

Choke on that ban, hope they and anyone like them get perm banned.

Dark Trigger4/7/2015, 7:19:12 PM9 votes

OP, no matter how many posts you make defending your friend. she is still not going to sleep with you. Accept it bro, she's just not that into you.

ChenMingYang14/7/2015, 9:50:45 PM8 votes

I remember getting flamed by this one guy in a 3 man premade and got reported. Nothing happened. Something in this story just does not add up. You just don't get banned for two weeks from one game.

Khristophoros4/7/2015, 8:05:34 PM8 votes

Stop upvoting this you fucking retards.

I've been playing this game for 6 years. I've had my share of toxic games where I absolutely blew up and lost it, and said things I shouldn't have said. Never been banned. It only happens if you're doing something wrong consistently game after game.

Furthermore, and most importantly, the OP did not post any chat logs. That makes his testimonial 100% worthless. You're all retarded.

Gorantharon4/7/2015, 9:53:42 AM7 votes

What was that template reply? It should have at least told her if it was behaviour related.

TenSlashTen4/7/2015, 2:32:53 PM5 votes

you know what else is bullshit? (second comment)

Heroes of the storm has just as many toxic trashies. Infact they're even worse players than league players because the mechanics required to play the game are more lax and thus require overall less effort meaning a mechanically inferior player with a better character pick can easily stomp even if they couldn't CS for shit or control objectives that well.

The less mechanical skill a moba requires the easier it is to win with a stronger pick because there's less skill involved other than "kill the other players and push something"...

Listen you're just spouting nonsense... There will be evil in every good. There will always be equal sadness to happiness in everything in life. Whether it's a video game or real life. You can't run from the lesser beings.

Just, ignore them and move on. In the greater scheme of things, you're just wasting time on less important matters. What matters if having fun and enjoying yourself. Not worry about others and their opinion of you.

Actin4/8/2015, 2:42:08 AM4 votes

I've called someone every vulgar name in the book a hundred times over and I have AFK'd in well over 50 games because someone on my team was being an A-hole.

I used to consider myself hyper toxic and I've never even gotten a chat restriction. I've even felt bad afterwards for how I've behaved in games.

Those Riot emails about warnings used to come so frequently that they started going in the spam folder

I have since reformed myself and no longer even speak and now I just insta mute anyone that is toxic and tough it out, but my point is that you have to go above and beyond even what I was doing to actually get banned.

Those of you who get chat restrictions and bans are on a whole different level than me though. I can only imagine how hard you have to go to get banned.

TLDR OP is lying.

Only Play Darius4/7/2015, 11:11:27 AM4 votes

I have been suspended multiple times. As far as 2 week bans are concerned, Riot actually does personally check chat history before they issue account suspensions.

Chat restrictions however, are automated.

Gorbache4/7/2015, 12:14:42 PM3 votes

Maybe she let someone play on her account. I don't know how many times people say: I don't care if you report me, it's not my account that could lead to an account sharing investigation and any suspicion would get you banned since the person said they were guilty.

Retillin4/7/2015, 2:52:45 PM3 votes

If only there were some way for people to check these games. Almost like a crowd sourcing approach to it. You could have it where people read over the game chat logs and voted on when someone was toxic to others. We could call it something like "Tribunal" or something. Just a thought.

Soda Popkillski4/7/2015, 6:04:03 PM3 votes

2 Week ban for being falsely reported 3 times?

You know those reports go through actual players right? And that if they are accepted by those real players, they go right to riot. Your friend must be lying or not telling you something here.

LOL Spammer4/7/2015, 6:58:08 PM3 votes

You know I agree that this is wrong but speaking for riot, they only have so many employes, (1,400 at last count) and over 20 million gamers, probably at least one person gets reported per game. Just think about the shear number of games and reports and abuses that riot has to look over. So I don't think riot is lazy.

Colgate Gator4/8/2015, 8:27:38 PM3 votes

Since a lot of people (for some reason) seems to be upvoting this thread, just a reminder.

You're upvoting a thread without any sort of source/proof other than the OP's word that his "timid" friend got an unwarranted 2 weeks ban, which isn't easy to get in the first place, because they were being harrased. He isn't even asking for explanation nor anything, he's simply demonizing Riot by calling them "evil".

OP is also known for making spammy/bullshitery threads, which more often than not, involve him ranting about the game and saying how glad he is to be moving to another MOBA, and since he's still here making these threads, is a load of BS. He even supposedly was going to bring Riot to court to give him a full refund some time ago, so yeah.

DaedricTerror137/25/2015, 12:51:17 PM2 votes

If me FINALLY yelling back at people who've been yelling at me for 22 minutes and defending myself

after two guys mid and top call me and bot bad when im 0/1 support and bot is 0/0 is toxic then lol.

I don't care if I aggresively defended myself because at the end of the day they started it and banning me for defending myself is sick.

Its like a rapist breaking into a woman home and as hes raping her about to kill her, she stabs him in the eye with a kitchen knife and they put her in jail because she was too brutal.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Phuc Dat Bich4/8/2015, 3:21:46 PM2 votes

2 WEEK BANS MEAN THAT YOUR FRIEND WAS A PIECE OF $HIT FOR MONTHS!!!!

In order to get banned atm you need to be racist or making death threats!! otherwise if you just saying "omg you suck go F your self" you will get chat restricted again and again!

So in order your friend to get banned for 2 weeks mean that she was a racist piece of $hit for months and riot finaly ban her!!

I dont say that riot system is good its pathetic but hell dont say BS here