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The Ban System is an Absolute Joke

Swollwonder·10/1/2019, 5:45:05 PM·2 votes·2,764 views

I had the misfortune of playing two games in a row with a guy who afked in both of them once he believed we were losing. Because it seemed like a regular thing he does, I've decided to look at his games. And guess what? He's still doing it. He even said at the end of the game "yeah I'm not going to get banned" because he KNOWS the system is awful. Playing in the games he is winning is enough to keep him from being banned because the system is that bad.

I submitted a report to riot support just because I knew this was going to happen. And sure enough here he is, 5 days later, still afking in games. But that's fine because (unpopular opinion starts here) as long as he doesn't hurt anyone's feelings, which I fixed a long time ago with disabling chat, he can just keep actually ruining games for people.

Not only does the ban system prioritize the wrong thing in league, but it doesn't even make sense why it prioritizes what it does. If we assume every ban case is actually looked at by a person, it's not even that much easier to see if a person is trolling vs if someone is flaming. I mean this guy just blatantly sits in base!!! Is it that hard to load up a couple of matches and see its a regular thing? Harder to do than checking someones chat logs?

Guess so. Or maybe afking is just looked on lighter than being mean to someone even though both absolutely suck to have in your game.

I have ZERO faith in the report system and every bit of hatred I have for it has been proven in my 5 years of league.

21 Comments

zPOOPz10/1/2019, 6:00:08 PM5 votes

It is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to stalk someone's match history and see LPQ. You don't know if he got punished or not.

ModPeriscope10/1/2019, 5:57:26 PM4 votes

Well, that sucks that you didn't get the outcome you thought appropriate for that player. While it does seem like if you're purposefully AFK from games that you should receive a suspension, we don't really know if that player didn't get a punishment, such as a chat restriction or a low-priority queue.

They don't prioritize one infraction over another, but certain infractions are easier to find and punish than others.

Silent Gravity10/1/2019, 6:16:15 PM3 votes

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If we assume every ban case is actually looked at by a person

Don't assume that. It would be wildly expensive, impressively slow, and unacceptably erratic to have humans directly in control of all punishments.

Is it that hard to load up a couple of matches and see its a regular thing?

Yes. At three million matches a day, watching even just one minutes of every match would be a fulltime job for 6250 people. You are wanting them to watch not just one minute, not just the whole match, but multiple matches so that they can determine a pattern. (and you're asking for unreliable people to make the same decision every time)

Harder to do than checking someones chat logs?

The IFS takes a couple seconds to analyze a chat log. Even under a heavy load of reports it generally keeps the backlog under 15 minutes. This compares quite favorably to the six months backlog when it was manual.

Kei14310/1/2019, 7:37:11 PM1 votes

5 days is not enough to even go through the triage of reports so the game(s) can be manually reviewed ...

Maybe 15 days.

Tele II10/1/2019, 10:59:26 PM1 votes

Damn, that sucks. Hope he gets his ban soon!