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Rule Clarification for the Punishment System in League of Legends.

Better Jungler·10/16/2017, 8:12:42 PM·31 votes·6,736 views

How reports work:

  • Reports do not stack up. If you get one report, its the same thing as getting 9 reports in one game.

  • Think of reports like flags, If you get reported one time in a game, it flags your game for the system. The system reviews your game for toxic phrases/words and if it finds those keywords/phrases, it dishes out a punishment tier.

Punishment tiers:

  • 10 game chat restriction

  • 25 game chat restriction

  • 14 Day ban.

  • Permanent ban.

  • There are a few stipulations to this. Punishment tiers are not fully based on severity, rather on repeated toxicity after your initial warning. Also, If you use extreme hate speech/threats, the system can skip punishment tiers and take you straight to a 14 day ban (some cases even permanent.)

  • If you play 5-6 months of continuous good behavior, you will go down in punishment tiers.

  • A 14 day ban is your final warning before getting permanently banned. Any amount of toxicity no matter how minor is a sign that you are not reformed, and will result in a permanent ban. If you receive a 14 day ban you are on your very last chance.

** Chat **

  • It is against the rules to repeatedly use "facts" about a players poor performance to be toxic towards them. Even if they are feeding heavily, or missed a smite on baron, dwelling on the fact, and spamming it is considered toxic, and is punishable. Remember, everyone has bad games!

Context:

  • The system, and Riot, do NOT take into account context of a situation in most cases. It doesn't matter if the enemy was flaming you first, or the premade was ganging up on you, and you were defending yourself. YOU CONTROL WHAT YOU TYPE. If you type something toxic, that is all the system sees. If you are frustrated with a premade or a toxic enemy/teammate, mute them immediately, and report them after the game.

Calling for reports:

  • It is against the rules to call for the report of other players, and doesnt help your case at all. Remember, one report does the same thing as 9 reports. This also means you are breaking the rules, and could result in a report/punishment headed your way as well.

Where are the rules?

Post Game/Pre game lobby

  • To my understanding, the system reviews information IN GAME CHAT, if you'd like the pre game/post game lobby chat looked at, when reporting the player add a note that says "Pre game/Post game toxicitiy in chat" or something along those lines. This should cause the review of the game to take into account the lobby chats as well as the in game.

Mute function

  • The mute function does not exist to protect the toxic player from punishments. The mute function is not an excuse to be toxic, nor does it excuse you from anything else negative that you say about the muted player.

Name Shaming on the boards

  • It is against the rules to use anyones name (real life, or IGN) on the boards in a negative way. You cannot create a boards post saying "XxSniper_x_Quickscope_x_Not12_xX" was being toxic in a game. Use the report function after the game. If you believe the player has gone completely overboard with toxicity and needs a Riot review, Create a ticket at: https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

  • This is not for "He called me a buttface" this is for hate speech, real life threats, and overall terribly toxic behavior.

Permanent suspension, vs permanent ban

  • There are cases where Riot will lock your account temporarily, but (for some reason) they call it a permanent suspension. This is usually due to a security risk where someone tried to access your account. Less commonly this is due to a purchased account, or chargebacks associated with an account. Open a ticket with Riot support, and they will be able to provide you more information as to the next steps to unlocking your account. If you recieve a permanent ban, these situations are MOST OF THE TIME irreversible, and will not be overturned by a Riot Support ticket.

** ZERO TOLERANCE PHRASES **

  • There are certain phrases which are automatic punishments if reported. I don't believe I'm allowed to list them due to boards rules, but if you use your imagination it's pretty simple to figure out whats a no-no. If it talks about a person's race, gender, or sexual preference in a negative light, it's bannable. Also, telling someone to end their life, even in a joking manner, is 100% punishable. *

**If you have any questions post them below, for more help with rules on moderation/rule clarification, the boards discord link on the left hand side of your screen can get you in contact with some of the player moderators that regulate the boards chat. For in game support, https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new will get you 1 on 1 chat support with a Riot member in some cases, however most of the time it will be an email. In my personal experience emails are typically responded to within 24 hours of each reply, usually a bit sooner during normal hours. **

98 Comments

ModThe Djinn10/16/2017, 8:21:26 PM10 votes

Good collection of information here!

Might be worth mentioning specifically that punishment tiers are NOT based on severity, but rather on repeated toxicity after your warning. All severity does is escalate you up faster (which you do have, but I think the first bit is important).

I'd also recommend mentioning that using "facts" to act condescendingly towards another player or place blame on them is not true. Even if they're feeding, flaming you, 0/16, throwing Dragon, ignoring the team, Bronze 5, etc -- mentioning that frequently and/or using it to make fun of, insult, or belittle that player DOES count as toxicity.

Kei14310/16/2017, 8:29:22 PM5 votes

Might want to add that "defending yourself" is the act of debunking the lies, but not a counter attack.

ModDaenrysTargaryen10/16/2017, 8:18:43 PM5 votes

I did not learn something as I knew all the rules. but good work letting other people know :)

Ulquiorra012310/17/2017, 3:24:51 PM3 votes

So I have had an account permabanned by RIOT LYTE'S SYSTEM. The funny part is how wrong this is. On the 14 day suspension (first punishment i got), there were three games of "toxicity". Now I will admit the first game was toxic, I called a kid autistic who was playing disco nunu, yes I do regret that action, was not okay. The other two games made me laugh tho. The 2nd game was literally one sentence. "Shut up". And I have friends who can vouch for that cause it was a 3 queue in URF playing Rammus. I will always remember this game because the Nocturne and Garen were a duo and extremely toxic and lying to the enemy team about me saying anything (which I didnt until the last minute of the game). The third game had nothing. Now this is okay, i deserved this punishment, i called someone autistic, obviously i deserved a suspension.

Now we get to the fun part. The Perma was interesting because I appealed it and got told that although they looked further into the account and found that it wasnt actually toxic, they cannot unban it because they do not have the ability to (which i believe). Three games again on the page you get during a punishment, one had nothing, the 2nd had me calling a champion trash (im assuming the person took this as they were getting called trash cause they then called for a 9x and im assuming i got 9x'd). The third however was friendly banter with a duo partner that included some sarcastic remarks with no course language. So the only reason i got permad was because the system doesnt take into effect context of a situation.

The next thing, 9x is a thing that is called for because it gets results. It is almost always an instant punishment btw. 1 report just flags the account, 9 actually does something. So yes they do stack, we know this, it was leaked on reddit that the system takes into effect # of reports from a game and # of total reports. So for you to come here and post some political garbage sucking up to riot just kinda pisses me off. We know the system is garbage, you can get someone punished for giving constructive criticism, hell its been tested and done. You can get someone banned for picking off meta, which is ridiculous.

To answer the title of the post. There is 1 rule, Do not get reported. And good luck with that because unless you say absolutely nothing ingame, someone is going to get triggered and report you and the system will flag the account. Context matters, Riot should create a system like the Tribunal, only get more people involved in it. Because unless you have a human looking at another person's actions, you cannot be sure that people are being rightfully punished. My friend is the kindest person ingame, will take all the toxic crap people throw at him with a smile on his face, and is currently sitting in chat restriction for muting them.

AirKingNeo10/16/2017, 10:24:38 PM3 votes

Reports do not stack up. If you get one report, its the same thing as getting 9 reports in one game.

Common misconception, but false.

It is against the rules to call for the report of other players, and doesnt help your case at all. Remember, one report does the same thing as 9 reports. This also means you are breaking the rules, and could result in a report/punishment headed your way as well.

Also wrong! https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/PzY1ArN3-we-dont-ban-people-for-asking-for-reports As clearly shown, it is not against the rules.

DuskDaUmbreon10/16/2017, 11:08:24 PM3 votes

Great post! One minor thing, though:

It is against the rules to call for the report of other players, and doesnt help your case at all. Remember, one report does the same thing as 9 reports. This also means you are breaking the rules, and could result in a report/punishment headed your way as well.

This isn't quite true. Asking for a report isn't inherently punished. It's when it's done in a way that can be seen as toxic and/or flaming that it's punished. Especially if it's done in a harassing way, or is a false-call. I can call for a report, but as long as I keep it at a single (or possibly a second reminder) message, and don't be toxic, flaming, derogatory, or otherwise an ass about it, I'm fine. If I say "Report Yas for being AFK" (a sentence we all end up saying very often. XD), it's fine. If I get toxic in saying so, however, it's immediately not okay.

Of course, though, that doesn't change that it's annoying and pointless to do so.

FeederCricket10/17/2017, 1:49:48 PM3 votes

But what about intentional feeding? Why does one bad phrase get you punished after the game, but 10 games in a row of running down a lane gets treated as "having a bad game, keep trying your best"?

Skorch10/17/2017, 9:56:24 AM2 votes

Wait i thought there was a 1 day ban, 2 day ban, and 7 day ban tiers for things that didnt really belong in chat restriction. Like AFKing and such.

PurpleKingCrazy10/16/2017, 11:26:49 PM2 votes

Reports do not stack up. If you get one report, its the same thing as getting 9 reports in one game.

This really depends on the type of player they're referring to. Usually, a report that counts as 9 reports is very exceptional in value of the report. Reports stacking can be biased towards that particular person according to how he/she behaves through the system. Otherwise, you're very good and the report doesn't count for anything. So technically, 9 reports don't seem to affect the whole game in general and can move on from there.

Taliyah

Synnx710/17/2017, 3:13:19 PM2 votes

One flaw of it. One guy once got 14 day ban for saying " fuck me , omg i fucked up so hard" , " fuuuck". He was insulting himself and got banned. Lyte's system is flawed and it shows how much riot cares about it.

For The Horde LC$$

Skins Project10/17/2017, 12:42:28 AM2 votes

I think of it as an elevator button ._.

General Esdeath 10/17/2017, 5:34:19 AM1 votes

But wait, OP. Why was I punished for telling the troll on my team "kys"? Does Riot ENCOURAGE trolling?!?

:^)

The Öutcast10/17/2017, 6:51:03 AM1 votes

I still think it's silly that multiple reports is the exact same as 1 report. If 4 people feel like their game was ruined by one person, then that should count 4 times against them. Also, it's still up in the air on whether or not calling for reports is toxic (Riot still hasn't officially decided, there are different rioters saying different things). If you call for a report legitimately, then it's not toxic.