Disconnects are NOT a reportable offense

Lost R·8/16/2015, 3:59:24 AM·5 votes·1,861 views

They aren't. Sometimes shit happens. Sometimes your internet decides to hang itself, or sometimes the servers at Riot aren't playing nice. If a person decides to fap in the fountain when the game is still going, then it's an active AFK, and it's a reportable offense. If they ragequit, it's a reportable offense. If you are angry that something caused them to not join for twenty minutes, it's NOT a reportable offense.

Hope this clears up some of the confusion.

17 Comments

Kãtãrinã8/16/2015, 4:02:45 AM7 votes

being DCed is a reportable offense regardless. cause you are AFK. the report system doesnt see a difference and i'll keep reporting people who join late or DC.

disregardable8/16/2015, 4:05:32 AM3 votes

If you play off of satellite internet in the subarctic and DC every other game, you're ruining games just as consistently as rage quitters. You need to get control of your living situation and wifi or not play a team game. Seriously. You're held to a responsibility to be here, and when you don't do so there is a consequence.

searchman158/16/2015, 4:48:15 AM3 votes

I never report people for dcing randomly. I only report when I'm sure they rage quit/afk on purpose (which includes leaving your cpu and getting distracted for 80% of the game). Because sometimes it is out of your control and you can't warn anyone about it because you have no idea yourself. This past week I was doing placements, was doing well on my 9th game when suddenly I'm attempting to reconnect. Turns out my ISP had an outage in my area, wasn't fixed for hours. Was playing an aram the next day, and the same thing happened. I felt horrible, but there is literally nothing I could have done. I'd hate to report someone in a similar situation.

Trídent8/16/2015, 5:07:04 AM3 votes

while I don't report dcers often, leaverbuster will still punish them

KosTheory8/16/2015, 5:13:36 AM1 votes

I would expect RIOT would only ban someone who was repeatedly reported for being AFK. So if you just happen to occasionally have the rotten luck to DC, and someone reports you, it probably doesn't matter.
If however, you KNOW you have piss poor internet, and you CHOOSE to join an online game that is PvP, and your constantly DCIng, then you are CHOOSING to #%$ on your team right from the get go. You almost guarantee 4 other players a crappy game, and a loss (and worse for the Rank guys, in terms of trying to progress) all because you have crap internet that isn't up to the task of remaining connected. IN which case, if you get banned, all the better.
Seriously, if you ever queue for Ranked, and know you have that poor of a connection, I truly hope Teemo finds you in an alleyway and leaves you with a burning itch for the rest of your ungodly days.

SmokedAlmonds8/16/2015, 5:34:52 AM1 votes

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They aren't. Sometimes shit happens. Sometimes your internet decides to hang itself, or sometimes the servers at Riot aren't playing nice. If a person decides to fap in the fountain when the game is still going, then it's an active AFK, and it's a reportable offense. If they ragequit, it's a reportable offense. If you are angry that something caused them to not join for twenty minutes, it's NOT a reportable offense.

Hope this clears up some of the confusion.

This is false. Leaverbuster is just as much about finding and punishing people with frequent connection problems as it is ragequiters.

Yes, there are all kinds of random things that can happen and everyone will have them happen sometimes. This is why leaverbuster doesn't punish people for individual leaves but rather having an unnacceptable overall rate of leaving games. The reason or cause for a leave is not a factor.

Silents4298/16/2015, 6:52:28 AM1 votes

Hope this clears up some of the confusion.

Who was confused?

AntiSkillshot8/16/2015, 2:25:58 PM1 votes

Intentional disconnects are a reportable offense. Unintended disconnects are not. Sadly, teammates (and Riot for some dumb fuck reason) can't tell the difference. The only time teammates seem to know the disconnection was unintended is when you return a minute or two after disconnecting.

But seriously, fuck "attempting to reconnect" bullshit.