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Suspension Without Review

K54·8/8/2015, 4:15:27 AM·1 votes·621 views

I've had numerous accounts bans throughout my LoL career pertaining to my "verbal" conduct. I've posted my in-game chat multiple times and when I was looking through the tribunal, I noticed something very vital... lack of video evidence.

Whenever I'm reading the stuff I type that is the reference for my account ban or chat suspension, I never SEE the problem. Then it hit me, it's because I was in that game and I know what was happening.

Let's say you (the reader) walk around the corner and witness me calling somebody a "fucking suicidal r%%%%%" ... you'd initially find my comment to be uncalled for and would find it appropriate for me to keep my mouth shut. That's how the TRIBUNAL works, therefore I get chat suspension for 20 games.

Now same situation, but this time you have to investigate the reason. Seconds before my "fucking suicidal r%%%%%" comment was made, I had just witnessed a person on a bike fly through a red light without looking both ways and witnessed his back tired get hit by a car going 40 mph, he flies off his bike unto the sidewalk, gets up, then blames me for not saving him. At this point, calling him a "fucking suicidal r%%%%%" seems warranted.

Let's translate this to a League situation. Let's say I'm supporting as Leona for Vayne and there's a low health Quinn under the turret with a low health Soraka report. Let's assume the Leona and Vayne raped Quinn and Soraka to low health. We push our minion wave to the turret then our good old jungler MasterYi comes to assist, Vayne and Yi attack Quinn, get blinded, Soraka uses her summoner 7, Soraka and Quinn live, Yi and Vayne die for a Quinn double kill.

Obviously, from this point, the arguing starts and Leona let's them know how fucking stupid they are for taking the bait. The end of this match gets Leona a chat suspension or week long account ban.

But... what if the people that made the decision to ban, saw what started the toxic behavior.

3 Comments

Jamaree8/8/2015, 4:22:50 AM7 votes

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I've had numerous accounts bans throughout my LoL career pertaining to my "verbal" conduct. I've posted my in-game chat multiple times and when I was looking through the tribunal, I noticed something very vital... lack of video evidence.

After the first two, don't you think that maybe, just maybe YOU are the ones who need to change? Maybe?

AtheismIsStupid8/8/2015, 5:12:39 AM2 votes

The irony is strong with OP.

The apparent paradox of self-deception is very real.

"Hey, someone didn't play perfectly - therefore anything I say goes!" #Logic

Phrain8/8/2015, 6:12:37 AM1 votes

Alright, as someone who spent a decent amount of time in the tribunal, lemme just point this out. It doesn't matter what the situation is, yelling at your teammates like that is unacceptable, it's what puts so much pressure on every one in this game to perform perfectly, which, oddly enough, makes them perform more poorly.

To draw another, perhaps more extreme analogy, let us pretend you kill someone. Yeah, if all we saw was you killing him, we would judge you pretty hard and think you were a terrible person, but if we saw the circumstance leading up to it, where he did some menial wrong to you, we'd still probably think you were a horrible person. A small trivial mistake never justifies abuse, and you're on the internet, you can never really see the impact your words have on the other person. I would be willing to bet that if you were the one being raged at, you wouldn't have hesitated to report the perpetrator.

The tribunal exists to warn people about their behavior, and take action as it is needed. If this behavior is consistent, you bet it will be punished. The people in the tribunal who spend half an hour a day in the tribunal judging really want to clean up the community, and attitudes like yours make it very difficult to do and seriously undermine the work they put in.

At the risk of sounding like a kindergarten teacher, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. In chat at least, rage all you want at your screen, they can't hear you, we don't have voice chat.