Why aren't flagged phrases such as 'kys' completely banned from chat?

Squarey·Oct 11, 2017·2 votes·426 views

There are so many cases of people typing tame things like this and the system skipping them straight to a 14 day ban whilst people are getting chat restrictions for threats of murder and doxxing, inting and racism. If they have such a strict stance on 3 letters all they have to do is make it so you simply can't send those messages in game, which will also prevent people getting banned for saying kys on ARAM. The system is counter-productive.

Thoughts?

7 Comments

ZezockaryOct 11, 20174 votes

People would just find a way around simple censor, making Riot's job a lot harder. It would also prevent premades of 5 from talking to eachother how they want.

ChermorgOct 11, 20174 votes

People would easily find ways around it.
It's much easier to ban toxic people if you let them be extremely and blatantly toxic. I'd rather someone ruin one game, then get banned, then take 3 or more games to get punished because they didn't say anything extremely toxic since they weren't allowed to. If you punish for it after blocking it, people have the excuse they knew it wouldn't be seen.

Mizuki ZahraOct 11, 20171 votes

so its just like bait car, the phrase is the bait because its a simple 3 letter phrase that isn't banned and riot is the control that just bans you for biting

BeatzBoyFTWOct 11, 20171 votes

whilst people are getting chat restrictions for threats of murder, doxxing, inting and racism.

How do you even know? You only started surfing Boards just yesterday because you were complaining about being banned.

SquareyOct 11, 20171 votes

Because just yesterday I was in a game with someone doing exactly this. I reported him, the instant feedback system told me he was punished. And in the very next game he was there with a chat restriction and is still playing today. The system makes no sense.