(Theory) A New Way To Punish Players That Will Help Destroy Toxicity

Malphite me bro·5/10/2017, 5:48:35 AM·2 votes·477 views

What if - instead of banning people we put a perpetual system in place using chat restriction.

How it works - people receive normal chat ban, if that person gets mass reported by enemy and ally players for that game they were toxic, they will get another game added to their chat ban.

Basically if someone has a chat ban, they won't receive rewards or loot but they will be able to keep their account but also will be incentive to be better to get their strikes off , to get all those chat restrictions off their account.

9 Comments

Kitty Cat Tosha5/10/2017, 6:00:09 AM3 votes

I guess you weren't around when huge streaks of chat restrictions were a thing. There were literally contests on the forums about "who can rack up the most chat restrictions". People were using them as a bragging right. Not to mention many just resorted to trolling instead of flaming ingame.

Chat restrictions are a nice deterrent for the average player, but for the "hardcore" flamers and trolls, it's only a joke.

AeroWaffle5/10/2017, 5:51:20 AM2 votes

Already tried, already failed.

People with near endless chat restriction often made absolutely no attempt at reforming. When they couldn't use chat to vent their anger, they settled for trolling. And trolling, especially when done with the intent of avoiding the system, is extremely hard to detect.

Kei1435/10/2017, 8:51:30 AM2 votes

if they cared about to be toxic, they wouldn't care about hextech crafting.

Martensitic5/10/2017, 10:41:47 AM2 votes

Fun story: We had that exact system, my friend.

In the past, it was possible to accrue thousands of games worth of chat-ban.

Did that prevent toxicity? No sir.

What happened instead? Toxic morons became fully aware that, no matter what they did, they would never get banned. They would just get more and more chatbanned games...which they didn't care about. So they spread toxicity in other ways:

Opening lanes
Inting
Stealing lanes
Trolling in champ select
Pingspam
5 tears and AP Garen
Killing Creeps as support on purpose
Taking smite as top/adc and stealing your junglers camps
...
....

There are so many ways how one can be toxic without ever writing a line in chat. And that's why Riot gave up on that system.

SecondAirbane5/10/2017, 11:17:41 AM2 votes

i support this idea 100%