PSA: Context will not save you.
######Disclaimer: This is not opinion. This is the fact of the matter regarding the methodology of the punishment system for this game. A downvote will only mean fewer people see this important fact and may become victim to this unfair practice.
Riot Support is not allowed to act based on the context of what you say. You call your friend an F or N word because you do it all the time and someone not part of the conversation takes offense to the mere use of that word, you cannot save yourself.
And it's just as possible for someone to report you knowing the context is as playful as expected from an mmo, just to get you banned because you lost lane. Even in such cases where the context is that the report is actually false, you have no opportunity to defend yourself.
**Edit: Here's a much clearer explanation of why, since my first example only included the impact on the person banned, and somehow you all don't understand why a person who likes the game would try to reform. **
As a business, major decisions are regarded by how they effect profits. One such decision is how to deal with the concept of free speech as it pertains to your chat. Do you prohibit it with a strict chat filter? Do you allow it, but warn people not to use it? Do you ban people for merely using words that could be hateful in a different context? Riot is of the third stance, wherein the automated system and tribunal have a zero-tolerance policy despite the chat filter and mute function.
Why have they taken that stance? Because like many other large companies, Riot executives are under the misconception that the most vocal regressives make up a significant portion of the playerbase. They take the safest option possible since they know such people are the kind that are both too stupid to understand their own responsibility to use the mute function, and feel entitled to never have their feelings hurt. And so Riot is afraid that they will lose that imagined-significant portion of players if they don't keep up the appearance that they have a zero tolerance policy for "toxicity"... despite having one of worst communities.
And on the plus side, someone who gets permanently banned for making a joke about Taric, Varus, Lucian, or Ekko but still likes the game is likely to try to reform on a new account since the game itself is free. And they're going to buy skins again even if they previously owned them.
All I'm attempting to do is warn people that this is the case. It is factually against the concept of free speech, but Riot is not a government office and so has no obligation to allow free speech. So I want to warn people about it before they get punished.
What you do by downvoting this particular post is akin to taking down a "do not park" sign on a curb where the red paint is too worn to see, in hopes that people will get tickets for parking there. It makes no sense at all to do. Or more closely related, it's similar to if people were to find a way to get the "Scams are making the rounds again" PSA taken down just because it's a fact that scams exist.
So do what you want. I've never been one to use profanity of any kind in the in game chat, so it doesn't affect me. But if you're here to downvote and haven't been punished either, I want to know... Why? What do you gain from making it harder to see an important PSA?
