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Out of curiosity since the punishment system is not directly the Tribunal

Z Statistic·4/1/2016, 11:54:03 PM·4 votes·1,383 views

Does it have the adaptability of the Tribunal? Does the system reflect the community, or does the community reflect the system?

As an example, let's say that over the course of two or three seasons, the community doesn't give a shit about ethnic or racial slurs and treats them the same as telling someone 'you're a fucktard. Uninstall the game' as opposed to 'you're a [slur], uninstall the game.' The difference being that while both are rude and elicit a punishment of some kind after meeting a threshold, the former requires a pattern and multiple instances for maximum escalation (i.e. permaban) whereas, as far as I'm aware, using racial, sexist, or homophobic slurs is one-and-done; you're out of here (or at least escalates significantly more quickly than other language.)

In the event that the community comes to view these words as having similar gravitas, would the system adapt to reflect this change in culture, or would it remain a zero-tolerance offense?

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CrisisEchoes4/1/2016, 11:54:55 PM3 votes

the community reflects the system. The system was made with no regards to most of the community. It is what riot wants the game to be. Most people who disagree with this are just a buncha SJW's

Jubbinaut4/2/2016, 5:05:42 PM1 votes

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Does it have the adaptability of the Tribunal?

Yes. There is a baseline of standards that Riot has established, but by-and-large, it's the community's responsibility to determine what's acceptable and what isn't.

If some new, unheard-of term starts popping up, used in a toxic context, over time the system will learn that this term is considered toxic, and begin to punish it.

At the same time, if players suddenly become inured to some behavior that's currently considered toxic, and decide that it's "the norm," their lack of reports will mean the system no longer even has an opportunity to punish that behavior.

That said, their baselines are pretty stable. Hate speech and death threats, for example, are entirely unacceptable. That's a Riot standard, not a community standard, and as such, escalation for such language is probably hard-coded into the system.