Questions on how bans work..

Lilhendrix9·11/10/2017, 6:31:19 AM·1 votes·359 views

Ive recently been banned for 2 weeks, and while im not questioning why i was banned. Im more so questioning why the other toxic players who ganged up on me just get to skate away FREE. NO PUNISHMENT. For harrassing me and calling me all kinds of dispicable names during game. every thing that i said was in self defense. and if anyone at Riot actaully read the chat. they would see.. so if i go down. i want them to come with me. AT LEAST A CHAT BAN? i reported them all. but what does one report do VS 3 reports? its just not fair that they all get away FREE and im left with a 2 week ban.

5 Comments

Fresh Untilted11/10/2017, 6:34:08 AM1 votes

Without chat logs, it's impossible for us to figure out who was in the wrong here.

Zombie Gerbil11/10/2017, 6:43:50 AM1 votes

They're not free to go. Best you can do in your case is report them. Mute them first. Think of it this way, if someone is toxic in your game, they're more than likely toxic in other games. So if they gang up on you, continue to harass you, use slurs, or cuss you out, mute them immediately, and report them after.

And here's a small personal advice from me, DO NOT ask for reports. That is also a form of toxicity. Just ignore them and play to your best or ability. Just understand the situation and if it's too much to handle mute and report. The thing about your account is that YOU are responsible for your own actions. Forget about the others and don't even think about them after your game.

14 day ban is your last warning before a permaban, so just beware of that. Goodluck!

Sarutobi11/10/2017, 6:56:35 AM1 votes

First of all that is not how reports works. If they did loads of innocent people would be ban, and screw up the whole system. One report is just the same as nine reports (assuming everyone reported teammates and enemy team) all a report does is check the game in question. In this case because someone reported you it checked the chatlog and saw you were toxic.

It would have been the same if you reported them as well. But also remember that everyone is on a different space when it comes to punishment. If you mess up in one game (slightly toxic) the system would see it as a "bad game" and probably do nothing out it. It becomes a problem when you do it consistently, thus getting reported and having the system constantly checking your toxic chatlog.

Now with that said you can go up in the punishment tier and skip out on say Chat Restriction if your chatlog crosses the line. Usually with things like hate speech, or telling people to harm them.

Also note that you won't always get the notification that they have been punished. Someone else could have reported them and with how the system works the final person who reported them only gets the notification, let alone because of the punishment tiers if this person got just a chat restrictions they'll still be able to play. So it's impossible to know if they did get punished. But even if they didn't because you reported them (and it was a legit report) it will cause the system to basically keep an eye on them so that if anything their next legit reported incident will likely cause a punishment!

Lilhendrix911/10/2017, 11:17:00 PM1 votes

Thank you for the generous responses. My next question is.. Since the players threatened to report me before I ever said anything. Had I muted them and not retaliated at all. Would I still be banned from their reports? After all, you can't be banned for being bad at the game (which most of us are). So hypothetically, if I hadn't said a word, and wasn't inting. Would their reports still cause me a ban? Because it's my legitimate opinion that no matter what I had done or said, I was going to be reported by these turds.