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

Malphite me bro·May 10, 2017·2 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 ToshaMay 10, 20173 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.

Malphite me broMay 10, 20172 votes

Well if they do - they don't receive any loot or end of season rewards

Kitty Cat ToshaMay 10, 20173 votes

Let's be honest - if you have a 400 game chat restriction (and some people even had more than that), and you know there is no way you're going to work it off anyway within any reasonable timeframe - why would you eventually even care about working them off?

And if you are not getting rewards anyway, why care about winning at all? Just go full yolo every game - it wont matter anymore. THAT is why people started trolling instead.

scarycoitusMay 10, 20172 votes

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Well if they do - they don't receive any loot or end of season rewards

who gives a shit?

MartensiticMay 10, 20171 votes

Who cares? Honestly, who cares about a couple of (usually crappy) skins and a border? No one, that's who.

But losing an account someone poured hundreds of $$$ into...that's something that scares people.

AeroWaffleMay 10, 20172 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.

Kei143May 10, 20172 votes

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

MartensiticMay 10, 20172 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: