Riot: we designed a mute button so you dont have to deal with toxic people.
Also Riot: if you refuse to communicate with your team its a bannable offense.
And the community: communication in a team game is important to winning the game. Even with toxic players.
Chermorg5 votesMute is not an excuse to abuse the chat feature.
You will not be punished for not talking so long as you are attempting to communicate with your team through means such as the smart ping system when appropriate. This does not mean that you must use them all game or every 5 seconds - but you will not be punished for not using them when it is not necessary to use them. Basically, it's virtually impossible to get banned for refusing to communicate nowadays.
Yes, it is. Hence why Riot bans the toxic players, instead of removing chat.
Mos Deadly982 votesMeh riot banned me for 14 days from zero reports to my account simply because i grew up in an area that cusses alot. My family says "F@@@" alot and the people (who happen to be black) say the N-word alot. The online community also uses the Fa word alot because its a funny word that had absolutely nothing to do with gay people until the left put them back in. Shit i was using most of the curse words to mean nothing or to insult myself for being a f@@@ing dumba@@.
Chermorg3 votesYou do not get punished unless someone reports you. The system could care less what you say until it is instructed to review a game you were in - by a report from someone else.
Regardless of your personal use of the words, the vast majority of society considers those words inappropriate for public discourse, especially conversations with strangers you do not know. This is reflected in the community's opinion of those words, which is reflected in Riot's punishment systems.
MysterQ3 votes
You do not get punished unless someone reports you. The system could care less what you say until it is instructed to review a game you were in - by a report from someone else.
Regardless of your personal use of the words, the vast majority of society considers those words inappropriate for public discourse, especially conversations with strangers you do not know. This is reflected in the community's opinion of those words, which is reflected in Riot's punishment systems.
Have you ever had a poll to prove that the VAST majority disapproves of these words when used in different contexts?
Chermorg3 votesI'm presuming Riot takes that data from 7+ years worth of reports from millions of players consistently reporting hate speech.
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Chermorg1 votesIt's not just people who reported the OP. It's millions of players reporting this behavior across all ELOs/MMRs for many years now. The reports of the OP are factored in, but they're but a meager grain of sand on the beach of all reports ever filed.
Mos Deadly981 votesAccording to some other people on this forum the report system is absolutely worthless. They have an automated system now.
Chermorg3 votesThe automated system was trained on hundreds of thousands of reports which made up tens of thousands of prior punishment cases from the Tribunal system, where players voted on whether each others behavior was punishable or not. The system is based on the standards the community set for itself many years ago, and is dynamic to this day - if Riot sees a specific behavior being reported a lot, they may add it to the things the IFS (automated system) looks for.
Further, the system does not monitor all games, but only monitors those games in which someone was reported by at least one person - and it only takes one report to have it review the game - it doesn't review any "harder" with more reports.
Deep Terror Nami3 votesYou will not be banned for muting players.
MysterQ2 votesAlso Riot: if you say the wrong thing even once, jebanned.
Żügżwäng2 votesI would bring up one of cases for a chat restriction and show you just how tame the chat logs were... Games where I said relatively little, compared to how much trolling there was. If you say anything, and a premade group mass reports you, you're done. System will flag you. Then customer support will read your logs and say "you participated"...
Zombie Gerbil2 votesCommunications is not just by typing, but by pinging as well. You don't need to type to communicate. As for your flawed logic on getting banned for not typing as a communication is far from accurate. You don't even really need to ping all that much. It's what you say. Always have been on what you say. I know plenty of players that I play with NEVER uses chat. Just the pings. They never even got a warning. They finds it best to mute all the players and rely on their pings. That been working for them. So no, you won't get banned for not typing.
MadMad Sickness1 votes[{quoted}](name=Mos Deadly98,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=ANW1tBkh,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-11-21T04:47:27.638+0000)
Also Riot: if you refuse to communicate with your team its a bannable offense.
Riot tantrum has already stated that no one ever got banned for not communicating. He specifically said that that report "feature" was just a remnant of the old system and really didn't have any effect on the persons account lol.