Riot, chat restriction is not a punishment
In my match history, you will see a game where I play Leona and I am duoing with my friend who is playing Varus. Bot lane went very well, midlane had a decent lead that eventually evened out as Yasuo scaled, and top was winning as well. Our jungler Rengar was significantly ahead of the opposing jarvan. The game was set out to be a ranked game win, until Rengar went for a gank midlane, and missed both his snare and his slow on the yasuo, however, neither him nor our mid lane heimerdinger died in the process. Rengar put the blame on heim for the unsuccessful gank, causing heim to very **lightly ** retaliate about the missed snare and slow.
Rengar starts spamming in chat about how he wants no one to "ego" in chat, or have an opinion on him. He then threatens to leave, and then does after no one responds to his temper tantrum. We still had a major gold, dragon, and kill lead at this given time, until 2 minutes later when he comes back, only to avoid leaver buster though. He says in chat he is only going to afk farm and that we will enjoy the loss because we all have too much ego. He keeps to his word, and spams his maniacal temper tantrum in chat while taking buffs away from the adc and hiding in base while we lose our lead in a matter of minutes.
He begins to jump around on enemies killing himself but we already knew the game was lost. In the post game lobby he continues to harasse the entire team and everyone reports him, I hope (like my friend and I) that they left a nice paragraph detailing the event. Immediately, we receive notice that action was taken, however he boasts in chat that he was only chat restricted.
How is chat restriction going to save teams from people that grief and intentionally feed or leave games? Why is chat restriction the option for punishment, when the major problem didn't come from what he was saying but rather how he was acting? Being banned for bad behavior the first time it happens is okay with me. Because level headed players never intentionally feed or grief, and I thought that that would be the kind of community League would hope to build. He claims he has a lot of banned accounts, so an I.P. ban even makes sense to get people like this permanently out of the community. Just please realize chat restriction is not a harsh enough punishment.
