Lol, chat banned

Okay, let's talk about that, then. It's not the point I was trying to make, but I can do that, too.

Intentionally ignoring people and talking around them is manipulative behavior. It's a form of "punishment" intended to bring that person in line with your desires. Whether you want them to apologize for something, stop engaging in a particular kind of behavior, or just plain leave, you are attempting to make them do what you want them to do.

Threats can be seen in the same way. Threatening to call in an authority is manipulative behavior, specifically a form of ultimatum, again with the intention to bring that person in line with your desires.

A statement like "just ignore him and report him" is a combination of these two: it's a passive form of threat, issued while specifically ignoring the person in question. It's a very common - and, when used properly, very effective - manipulation tactic, used to bully another person to make them do what you want them to do.

Of course, that only applies if the person in question can be assumed to be aware of the statement. If it was sent as a whisper/pm or through some other method where "he" would be unaware of it, these extremely negative aspects don't apply. Of course, whispers aren't picked up by the system, either.

It's extremely important when communicating to be aware how the things you say - and the way you say them - affect everyone who's listening, not merely the person you're directing the comments toward.

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Is this true? I thought when i did tribunal it showed the comments from everyone who reported someone.

The reporting system determines whether to build a case based on the number of reported games (termed "Report Density") rather than the total number of reports issued against a player (termed "Raw Reports"). As such, for the purpose of building a case, 1 report in a particular game means the same as 9 reports in a particular game.

When determining which games to display from a particular case, the Tribunal often chose games with multiple reports. The intention behind this was to ensure that the best representation of the behaviors that sent them to the Tribunal were shown (since the more people recognize a behavior as toxic and therefor report it, the more likely it is for there to actually be toxic behavior in that particular game).

When someone says report so and so, it sometimes serves as a helpful reminder. Especially since i can't go back and report after i've exited the post-game lobby.

Perhaps so, but is it a reminder you need in the middle of the game?

I can see this if you are arguing about it and trying to convince people to report. But otherwise where do you draw the line? Is saying 'report Teemo' once after the game really different from saying 'dat Teemo', which really serves the same purpose and i don't think could be construed in the same light?

I don't think, necessarily, that "report Teemo" and "dat Teemo" serve the same purpose, though I admit to a certain bias based on my own usage of "dat."

When the Tribunal was active, occasional calls for reports, such as you indicate here, were often ignored. What I heard most about it was that the single comments like that simply weren't "bad enough" to bring a case over people's threshold. I know I personally would not have punished for just a single line such as the OP indicated. Not because it wasn't toxic - it is - but because it's simply not toxic enough to make me think it's worthy of any form of sanction.

With Riot handling things now - and being notably stricter, as they've always said they would be - I don't know where the general threshold is, or how strict their criteria are. As such, I tend to address things based on a rather more absolute value than a scale - I will speak about whether a behavior is toxic, but not how toxic it is, because until the Tribunal returns, my judgement on that isn't meaningful or relevant.