Can you get banned for joking around with friends?

Winek Chan·9/2/2017, 4:53:11 PM·1 votes·906 views

Aka insulting them as jokes, since I got friends and we often do this together, and sometimes we are just in a 4 man premade so there's one random guy who just watch this. I'm just scared I'm gonna get reported and perma'd because of it.

15 Comments

Zezockary9/2/2017, 4:59:46 PM4 votes

If you get reported for it you can and probably will be punished, and one report is all it takes to trigger a review of the game.

I would suggest using skype or discord instead of League's chat for insulting eachother.

ModPrandine9/2/2017, 11:39:33 PM2 votes

If you get reported for it then yes you can. Keep in mind that a 4-man pre-made is not a full 5-man premade and that the other lone player might not appreciate the kind of jokes you and your friends like to do. Many people have been punished and claimed "just joking with friends" when in fact it wasn't just them and their friends in the game. Either use a program like skype or discord to chat in, do it in a full 5-man premade or don't do it at all.

zPOOPz9/2/2017, 5:52:27 PM2 votes

Sure you can. Just like when you are in a restaurant, a movie theater, any public places, you have to mind other people around you. When you are in a restaurant with 3 of your friend and there's one random guy eating at the next table, if you start throwing vulgarities at your friends jokingly, you are still going to be asked to leave because the restaurant owner has to respect all his patrons and you are disturbing the other guy.

In this game, you can't exactly ask the 5th guy to mute the 4 of you and basically forced him to play the game in complete silence. He has the option to mute you all if he wanted to, but the choice should not be forced on him. If you are to throw toxic jokes with your friends (just like any private venues, e.g. Rito Games, in real life) and someone has to read them, you will probably be reported and 100% deserved the ban.

Wintrytale9/2/2017, 10:03:18 PM1 votes

Yes, my friend was joking around with the OS Veigar skin saying he was "isis" although I reported him for toxicity later on because of well, toxicty, he got banned for 14 days.

Winek Chan9/6/2017, 9:14:58 PM1 votes

Well, no matter how hostile this was said, I understand :/

I understand the 5th guy can be uncomfortable, but what I can't get is why would that make you someone toxic? It's not like I would have the intention of it, and I was more questioning the example that the 5th guy thought we were flaming eachother for real and reported us because he thought we were actually toxic. Normally, if some guy feels uncomfortable about flaming n everything, he would say something like "Stop flaming please" which we would proceed by saying it's a joke only between each others and of course don't do it seriously against other people.

rework trundle9/6/2017, 9:25:55 PM1 votes

Speaking of personal experience, yes. You could talk in ally chat and be reported by the enemy team, context doesn't matter.

2 Weeks Vacation9/2/2017, 5:38:29 PM1 votes

stop being toxic Onyx

DariusDemiurge9/2/2017, 5:56:07 PM1 votes

Yes because the system is semi automated and picks up on keywords.