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Should Riot ban people for inciting toxicity?

C men Demon·10/29/2018, 6:18:27 AM·4 votes·5,598 views

Recently I was playing a normal game with some friends and immediately the other person was saying things such as "Why do you guys have to be a group?" and "You guys are all probably like bronze 1 without friends" in the champ select lobby. This was before anything had been said or done. So my friend responds, calling him a dickhead. Mostly because well...he was being a dickhead. So the game goes on and the player is constantly trying to get us to say shit throughout the game. The same friend gave in and called him a "%%%%" and other things of course.

However, despite the random getting reported for his actions, he received nothing. Then in the post game lobby he was calling us all trash, despite only having a mediocre 8/8/1 score. Yknow, normal random shit, however my friend who said two things the entire game gets banned for 14 days whereas the one inciting the toxicity gets absolutely nothing. Also, before it's asked, that game was the only game cited for his ban. So, why does it make sense that responding how one is prompted to respond is a bannable offense, yet prompting people to be toxic towards you is not?

I dunno maybe i'm talking out of my ass here, but what do others think?

55 Comments

Quiet Dude10/29/2018, 8:49:12 PM3 votes

Inciting toxicity can be a broad claim. I incite toxicity by spamming the Ashe emote or spam /laugh BM when I get a kill. Tilts people through the roof and they start snowballing into full on verbal harassment.

Where do you draw the line?

Telephone Booth10/30/2018, 10:20:12 PM3 votes

No I dont think they should ban for toxicity at all. People should just mute people who bother you.

WatchYourHeadM810/31/2018, 12:16:18 AM3 votes

People shouldn’t be banned for talking at all in a game that has a mute and block button period

ez mental boom10/30/2018, 11:51:22 PM2 votes

Nobody should get banned for words on a screen imo

Faneseeker10/31/2018, 4:02:17 PM1 votes

nope, why were you so easily incited? sound like a lot of your problem there. Own it up man, can't take a little instigation don't play high octane games. People will do anything to gain an edge. If your opponent tilted you in the first min of the game, that is your loss his win. Sound strategy by my book, plus it's not easy, do it stupidly the instigator risks ban as well. It's an art. So I think its all fair game.

Sometimes you get people that instigate their own team, for whatever reason. The best thing you can do is mute, or ignore and just report after the game. I've met players that structure their words in a certain way to force or trick you to into using "trigger words" those people are scums of the scum, just cover your own diligence you'll be fine.

For example, someone that say things like "I'm gonna kms", They won't get banned for saying it, but if you follow him, then gg you are getting banned. These malicious intends will always be around, it's around in the real world too. Knowing what you are up against is your best defence.

Blam10/30/2018, 11:59:32 PM1 votes

The guy that que'd solo without friends tried to make fun of you and your friends for not having friends? ok..

Eleshakai10/31/2018, 12:12:41 AM1 votes

I don't think what that person did is enough in a single occurrence to justify a punishment, however if he does that EVERY game, then ya. Eventually he'd deserve punishment.

As far as your friend's example... if he got a 14 day ban, then the %%%%% you mention was one of the zero tolerance words. There's a reason they're called zero tolerance words. Sorry, your friend deserved it.

AeroWaffle10/29/2018, 7:18:53 AM1 votes

A person can be hit with a punishment for their post-game chat as well. It sounds like what the other person did can count against them when reported. Just because they weren't punished or you weren't notified of a punishment doesn't make any particular action okay. It often takes several instances of reported poor behavior for someone to receive a punishment.

But if what someone said breaks the zero-tolerance rules (such as hatespeech, telling someone to kill themselves, and so on), it can easily only take one game.