Riot, please address the AFK culture in Dominion normal games at least

In Dominion normal blinds, players going AFK from minute 1 and not playing are a rampant disease. If you are not a high elo Dominion player, you are likely to have AT LEAST 1 AFK per blind game. Don't even get me started on Draft Dominion; the wait is longer then the game.

The players are certainly guilty, but there's more to it then that. Certainly there's a culture difference between all the different normal queues. There are AFKs on Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline, and Howling Abyss as well, yet they're much more prevalent on The Crystal Scar then on the other maps, and there's a simple reason for this.

When players look at Summoner's Rift, they see THE map of the game, with ranked and everything. They see THE game mode that everyone plays, and they take it seriously. When they look at 3v3s, they see a game mode with ranked designed for organized groups that couldn't find enough people for a 5v5 match. They take it seriously. When they look at Howling Abyss, they know that it's meant to be a light hearted, for fun game mode with randomly selected champs, and at least they don't afk when they don't get what they want (they just dodge or reroll instead).

With Dominion, there is none of that. They see a mode Riot abandons except for a few small bullets in the patch notes. They see a mode that has no real purpose (SR and TT are for serious players, HA is to relax), and is generally regarded as the black sheep of League of Legends. So they don't have the same inhibitions about going AFK and ruining the game for other players that they do on SR. **They're just Dominion players, after all-Riot doesn't care about Dominion players, why should I? ** That may not be Riot's true stance on Dominion, but it's what players see. If there's one thing Dominion needs to develop a community that's bigger then the hardest of the core, it's stomping out the afk problem at low levels that puts off new players.

And there's one simple solution for this: Establish a temporary ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for AFKs in Dominion. Slap immediate warnings on the accounts of people who go afk. This may sound harsh, draconian even; but the only way to start building up a wide Dominion community that's bigger then just the Dominate Dominion tournament players is to end the AFK problem. People need to know that this is NOT ACCEPTABLE, and they'll only listen if it comes from you, Riot.