No one in the tribunal will ever know if someone is emote spamming just because someone reported it. If the person doesn't get reported for it on a regular basis, and was reported only the one time and that one time ended up in the tribunal, how can those in the tribunal hold that one time against him? They can't say for sure that he was even doing that, perhaps the other player didn't like him doing it 3-4 times during the games and that was enough for his report. People being banned for emote spamming, when Riot themselves put emotes into the game is one of the stupidest things to be banned for.
Every game that I can remember in like the last 20 games before my own ban, there was someone on my team or the enemy team that complained after the match about their teammates. Riot wants to remove all negativity from the game of 20+ million registered accounts, millions playing daily. That's impossible, and quite frankly, never going to happen. What they should do is be more lenient and increase the games rating from teen to mature. Report for racism, report for real threats, report for afk'ing and intentional trolling and feeding. All the really bad stuff that actually ruins games. Oh, non toxic players win 27% more games because blah blah blah. That's a fictitious number because it was only a sample. They would have to take at least 1000 games from 100,000 players to get any reasonable percentage. I bet it's closer to 7% because everyone becomes toxic at some point after playing too many games in a row with people getting on your case or someone else' for no reason game after game.
What Riot needs to do is remove the report system for a while and really monitor games to see what goes on. If there was no way to report a player, I guarantee you there would be far less toxicity in the game. People would realize they can't report toxic players and either they argue back or drop it altogether because they can't do anything after the game now. Sure people would be upset for a while without being able to fall back on that report button, but the trolls would lose interest, those that harass because they have inflated egos might talk less because they can't get a rise out of people any more. Sure you'd get those that would say "what are you going to do, report me, lmao" because there would be no report feature any more. You ignore that person all game and they will give up. There are far too many that say "report XXXXX" (they don't generally give a reason either), but now they have no reason to say that. Those that say that usually end up being reported as well, but now they won't be reported.
Real life. You smell pot, you know it's your neighbour. Your only course of action is to notify the police. You can't just go over there and break inside and confiscate their pot and haul them into court for your peers to judge them. Unfortunately, that is how league is. For the most part, it's people being judged based on what they say too. There are extremes yes, but to say swearing or retaliating against someone is punishable, or for fucks sake people, emote spamming or saying "ez" at the end of a match, you're all nuts. You have every right in the free world to stand up for yourself. If you get attacked, legally, you're allowed to retaliate with equal means. They punch you, you can punch them back. You don't get in trouble for this, the person that started it does. That's how league should work as well, sorry if you disagree, but consider the numbers..
League of Legends now apparently boasts a trio of absolutely astonishing metrics. Riot reports that 27 million people play the game daily, while concurrent players peak at 7.5M. In total, 67 million players play the game every month. All of these are enormous jumps from the already huge numbers from over a year ago.Jan 27, 2014
Canada's population has surpassed 35 million over the past year, a 1.2 per cent increase with growth generally higher in the western provinces, according to Statistics Canada. The information is contained in the agency's population estimates released Thursday morning.Sep 26, 2013
I don't know, but since a lot of Canadians swear and say rude things, despite Canada being one of the friendliest nations on Earth, if overall we can get along, while also overall, the crime rate has decreased in Canada as new lax laws are laws change to be more lax come into place. Instead of jailing everyone that smokes pot, only people with big grow operations are being nailed hard while small town dealers might serve a few months and those that just smoke get fines. They don't make examples out of a few people that smoke pot, the rules say, if he is only doing this, he only gets this punishment. If someone in league rages a bit, even swears a lot even when not raging, that should be fine, it's an online game to begin with. But the rules I think need to be reworked and they too need to be less strict. Make things less strict, and you'll find people don't push the boundaries as much, because they have more freedom. It's like turning the legal age to buy alcohol. Once you reach that age, it's nothing special, especially if you've drank alcohol underage. It's more fun doing something you're not supposed to, but when you're allowed to do it, everyone's allowed, and it becomes less special, less fun.
tl:dr
rules need to be more lax, can't push boundaries if the boundaries are so far out of reach, people just stop trying
top and I was against a 
who was able to easily beat me, and then proceeded to be a sore winner by emote spamming me and zoning me from my minions, i then proceeded to get ganked under tower even though there was no need for it anyways. This 
