The thing is, saying "report xyz for ___" once isn't going to get you punished. Even in this OPs logs, it isn't the fact that he said report the Lee for trolling that got him. It's the fact that he spent the entire match harassing that Lee for something. I'm not saying what the Lee was doing was right, or okay; he may very well have been trolling the entire match. We can't watch it to know for sure. But whether he was or not, the OP was on his case the entire match long, and odds are, either the Lee Sin, or one of the other people on the team didn't appreciate it and reported the OP for it.
Let me link you two additional quotes from the thread that the OP was linking, since they tend to give a bit better of an example as to how the system might view report calling.
[{quoted}](name=Riot NaKyle,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=PzY1ArN3,comment-id=000400000000,timestamp=2017-03-28T22:29:27.210+0000)
Yeah, that's why we're clarifying. Now let's dive into the details of this one to clear this up.
You're playing adc (in 2017), and everything's going fine. But then your jungler blows a gank mid and your midlaner goes off the deep end. They pop off with "Report troll jungler" in all chat and other, worse bullshit. Even if the other team reported that jungler, the jungler wouldn't get hit with a penalty because they didn't actually do anything wrong. However, if the jungler reports the midlaner, they're likely to get hit with a penalty depending on just how much they tilted and their game-over-game history with that type of talk.
Where the confusion creeps in is when you try to reduce things down to: Does "X" mean penalties. Instant Feedback only works that way with hate speech and threats of harm. That's the sort of harassment the team is much more focused on. Report calling is often a minor negative thing, but say there's a spectrum of chat where 1 is hyper-friendly, 5 is neutral, and 10 is literal death threats, this is like a 6.
So just saying "report troll jungler" once would only be the very lowest level of negative chat possible.
[{quoted}](name=Riot NaKyle,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=PzY1ArN3,comment-id=000a0002,timestamp=2017-03-29T04:02:55.266+0000)
Sure. Husker's post prompted this one. The short version is what I explained above. Basically, Husker's post mischaracterizes the severity of report calling by equating it with outright flaming and bullying. Report calling is bad but its not that bad (by what the community tells us through reports). Goes back to the 1-10 scale bit I mentioned a comment or two ago.
And this is just more clarification, that by itself, a single call for reports isn't that bad. It doesn't fall in the same category as outright flaming, bullying or other comments. And it certainly doesn't equate to hate speech. The problem is when people don't stop with a single one, and use it as a jumping off point for additional harassment.
I would love to see something in the client directing players to the Boards. Perhaps as one of those random loading screen factoids. It would also help if the Reform Cards would direct players to the Boards for additional resources, since most of us here have more time to help explain exactly why a punishment was issued and can help players keep from making the same mistakes again.
It might be worth suggesting it in a separate thread, that the Reform Cards contain some sort of highlighted text, or bolding of the lines that actually led to the punishment. If nothing else, you would get an idea of how other people feel about it. It certainly seems like a good idea to me. While I think that some things, like the hate speech, should be obvious and not need a highlighting, there are enough people who come here and genuinely don't know what led to their punishment that it might be quite useful.
