I'm not trying for gold this season

I'm not trying to climb to gold again this season and here is why: So far, I have been berated, sent back to silver 5 from gold 3/4, stuck in silver 4/5, and pretty much mistreated by the ranking system all around.

Let me state this: I love this game. It is fun. It is catchy. There are loads of pretty skins, effects, and character designs. It is decently balanced and the games out of ranked are fun 7/10 times. That being said, the community was once a beautiful thing here in LoL. I remember back in season 1 how the entire community talked back and forth in playful taunts. There was little to no "f-ck you noob" behavior to be found. We all had fun, whether it was ranked or normals. Now, it is full of children that believe that they are entitled to more than what they really are.

The ranking of old was based off how good you were, and was rather hard to climb as it was. This is EXACTLY what ranked should be. Hard to climb, because you are based on Elo. For those who do not know, the Elo rating system was implemented in chess, to replace the previous system, because it was outdated and not as accurate. Elo is not a perfect system, but it is pretty darn good. It has been implemented in many video games and other competitive competitions. The "new" system that Riot has put into place, is far from perfect. The main reasons for this system being such a failure for competitive use are as follows:

• The decay system is negative to the community as a whole.
• The tiers are semi luck based to get out of, instead of purely skill based.
• Money is being made off of account selling, because there is an actual reason for people to buy them.
• The sheer amount of skill difference in each tier is vast.

Okay, let me touch on each of these subjects.

• The decay system is negative, not because it exists for plats+, but because it should exist for every part of the system. Decaying is a needed piece of ranking, because it keeps stale accounts from staying in the lower tiers, then being used by people who are now no longer on par with the people they play with. How it should work is that people will lose their precious Elo and LP. After getting demoted, you keep losing Elo and LP until you start winning matches. When you get to a place where you are winning more than losing, then you are around the area you need to be at. Very simple. If you continue to never win,whether trolling or not being ready for ranked, then you eventually get thrown out of ranked all together, and are not eligible to play it again for a set period of time. This right here will ensure that people try harder to not lose games. They will constantly look for ways to improve, or lose out on their chances of rising.
• The tiers are semi luck based. This is easy to understand. You win, win,win. Say you win 10 in a row and get into your placements. If something happens 2 out of 3 of those games, then you are punished for things likely out of your control. Let me give an example from last season. I got to silver 2 around 15 times. 15. Let that number sink in. I won enough games in silver 2, to get into my placements, only to have something happen to cause these games to be losses. 90% of the time, it was an AFK. The other 10% was either a troll or all on me. This rank up system needs to be reevaluated so that it stops punishing players so harshly.
• Let me quote a friend on this one,Silver is full of smurfs. You can buy an account for $10 and pubstomp the ___ out of other silvers. Then after 100games where you made everyone ragequit the game, you pay $10 again and do it all over. I made close to plat last season through sheer hard work and determination. Now, I am lucky if I can get out of silver 5. The reason is because people are buying smurf accounts to troll people of lesser skill. I can carry most of my games as anivia or ahri mid. I win my lane, I roam, or I just keep pushing while my team does their thing. When I got a plat or diamond mid, I struggle, but I hold my own against them. However... my team mates can not be expected to be on that level. They get destroyed. It isn't their fault for not being as good as this smurf. It is the person smurfing at fault. There is no reason for this to be allowed. It gives the lower skilled people no hope of rising up with the sheer amount of people who smurf. I estimate around 1 out of 100 people to be smurfing. This is a stupid high number considering how many people play this game. There needs to be a way to look at this.
• The skill different in each tier needs to be tweaked. If I win 10-15 in a row, then obviously I need to be moved higher. No placements. Nothing of that nature. Just move the account higher automatically to where it should be. If they then do poorly, drop them down a little bit at a time until conditions are met for them to continue onwards. See my solution above for decaying.

Everything I have listed here is why I am no longer trying to reach gold. It is just not worth the stress caused by a flawed system. If Riot can fix this ranking system, then I will gladly keep trying to be competitive and rise higher...until then, there is no point and no reward great enough to get me to try seriously any more.

If you have anything constructive to say, then I will respond. Mean and unhelpful statements get ignored.