Idea for Toxicity Punishment

Vikíng·9/21/2015, 6:55:19 PM·2 votes·434 views

So, you know how with the punishment system, the last resort punishment for toxicity is a permanent ban? My idea is, instead, give the player a permanent ban from chat. Like, have it so they cannot type anything in chat, but they have select phrases to choose from, like "Missing in action top!" or something such as "Focus on [insert champion name or objective]." There could be a cool down on the pings to make players not able to spam, or just have allies mute the person. This new punishment would better fit the crime. Using chat abusively should get your access to chat revoked, not your access to the game.

That is just my 2 IP about the subject.

16 Comments

disregardable9/21/2015, 6:58:08 PM2 votes

Then said person could be reported/banned for feeding, couldn't they?

That's what I said to him too, but I think the problem is that the majority of the persistently negative players would do that. All not banning them would do is increase the amount of games they ruin.

But you never know. He did say they were still experimenting with it.

LCS DoubleVision9/21/2015, 9:53:23 PM2 votes

This game has to many punishments as is.. there are hundreds of games just as populated as League and don't have near the amount of toxicity/Punishments Riot has.. Because the community and Riot are so hell bent on punishing people that are toxic instead of fixing the problems that make people toxic.. Eventually this game will be nothing but punishments until one day you log on and you are banned for typing in the wrong password.

SmokedAlmonds9/21/2015, 7:01:15 PM1 votes

No thanks. I don't want chat restricted players in my games period. Having communication limited is bad enough but they are also a person I know that I don't want to play with and are taking the slot of someone I might want to play with.

Daen9/21/2015, 7:08:45 PM1 votes

Permanent bans function as both a deterrent and a protection mechanism for other players. Lyte's absolutely correct, players willing to be toxic enough to get permabanned are far more likely to switch to gameplay toxicity than they are to just deal with a chat ban.

Riot's all about reform, but when a player has demonstrated they can't or refuse to reform Riot wants them to stop playing the game. Switching the punishment to a permament chat restriction wouldn't accomplish this, and it would be allowing players to continue ruining experiences for others.