Why aren't permanent chat bans a thing?

Qulminadox·4/5/2018, 4:01:55 AM·2 votes·478 views

Since low level league games are sometimes filled with previously banned players, it tends to be an awful experience for new players or people leveling smurfs, if flaming players just got permanently chat banned instead they'd have less of an incentive to make a new account.

Just seems way more logical to me

6 Comments

AeroWaffle4/5/2018, 4:08:44 AM3 votes

It was a thing for a while (sort of). For poor chat behavior you would just constantly accrue ever-increasing games that you were chat restricted.

But this didn't help the situation. Riot said that most of the players that effectively got a permanent chat restriction (like, 500-1000 games before the restriction would be finished) would just find other methods of showing their poor behavior when they were unable to do so through chat. Like trolling.

And while trolling is bannable, it's much MUCH harder to spot without doing manual reviews.

So Riot scrapped it. What's the point of permanently chat banning someone if they still behave poorly, but in new ways that is harder to catch?

zPOOPz4/5/2018, 4:05:44 AM2 votes

They have more incentive to use game play trolling, which is significantly worse. If someone is flaming, it's easy to mute and they usually continue to try to play. If they can't flame and resort to game play troll, then you have almost zero chance of winning.

Chermorg4/5/2018, 4:08:17 AM2 votes

The way matchmaking works, new players are almost never matched with Smurf accounts. There is too large a skill disparity for them to end up together. As such, the leveling experience for a Smurf is notably different than that for a new player.

Nightmarekiller64/5/2018, 4:04:19 AM1 votes

Cause usually they’ll find some other way to grief (int feeding, idling/afk, stealing minions and maybe jog creatures to make others fall behind).

Rëformèd4/5/2018, 6:12:44 AM1 votes

i would love this idea i got banned twice for flaming not int/trolling so this would be great for me but so far i havent gotten banned :D (again)