I'm rather curious how the punishment system works or more accurately, how it escalates into harsher punishments. I personally am in good standing and have no intention of suddenly being a jerk, but I would like to know how it works. Are there levels? Does it have stages? What are the kind of punishments you receive when your on the horizon of perma ban but not quite there yet?
Please and thank you :3
Zielmann4 votesThe Instant Feedback system has 4 tiers:
Generally, with each punishment received, you climb up one tier of punishment. However, if somebody exhibits extreme enough behavior, they can skip tiers (including direct to permanent ban, but that is very rare). And if a player proves through their behavior to be reformed for a period of time, they can also climb back down the punishment tiers.
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Zielmann1 votesThis is specifically for Instant Feedback, which is for chat behavior. Punishments for other things will have a different cadence, and admittedly I'm not as familiar with the steps involved with those systems.
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iisabrina1 votesWell youre right they do, but this guy did mention you can skip tiers in the chat restriction system
NotSpecialDude1 votesI figured there would be a 1/2 month ban before the final perma one but eh, 14 days is still enough time to get your act together. Thanks for answering.
iisabrina1 votesGenerally the bans that cause 14 day and perma ban are usually just from 1 game and may be that the person isnt toxic at all.
I played a game with a friend and on breast cancer awareness day he yelled boobies during game. Some Indian kid called him an incest load of garbage and a piece of vermin etc etc. Well my friend got banneed just for the word boobies, the other guy, nothing happened.
Zielmann3 votesThey've gone through several renditions of punishment tiers, though as I recall, 2-weeks has always been the last straw before a permaban (though a long time ago, you could potentially get multiple 2-week bans before a permaban, without actually showing reform between them). What they found (and is still true today) is that most players correct themselves after their first warning. And most of the people who get hit by the system a second time will finally take it seriously and correct themselves then. But generally, if players made it through the system and were punished three or more times, reform rates plummeted to near-zero. That's why they escalate as they do now.
Also, regarding some of the other comments here... from what I've seen a vast majority of people who claim to have gotten a 2-week or even permaban as a first offense have actually later been proven to have gone through all the tiers just like everybody else. Also, something they don't seem to realize is that comments like "was banned for <specific game instance>" is also very misleading. Outside of very extreme behavior, it takes far more than one game of bad behavior to get any punishment at all. The system is built to punish for extended patterns of bad behavior across a number of games. But due to size limitations, Riot only sends 1 game's logs in the email notice, and up to 3 in the in-client ban notice. There are almost always even more games than the player is shown that triggered their punishment.
DeerGreenwood1 votesThere's kind of a level system but it's hard to explain. When you first start getting reported you may get one or two warnings before you get some 1 day bans. After that, the time frames start to get bigger until it's permanent. Alternatively, if you are just getting reported for bad language, you may get a chat restriction which limits the amount of words you can type out. I'm sure there are others but I just don't know about them.