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I got a 15 day ban due to early game banter

Cross Combo·11/3/2017, 2:38:16 AM·2 votes·676 views

Hey, So as of right now I am banned for 15 days for sparking a little banter one minute into the game. I was in a game with a few of my friends in a draft pick norms. Later when I got into the game I found out that 3 of them were wearing the TSM icon while I was wearing the C9 icon I thought it would be a good idea to start a little pregame banter as a joke. After the game was finished I ended up going 30/8/3 on riven, they enemy team also got really mad at the fact that I was making the game a one-sided stomp and choose to agree on reporting me after the game for the pregame banter and the fact that I was spamming my mastery/C9 Emote. This is what I was showed at my ban screen. Game 1 Crown Riven: kys tsm %%%s (This was during the start of game as soon as we spawned in) Crown Riven: yo bro Crown Riven: places ward (This was mid game during a baron fight) Crown Riven: ggwp (During the end of the game right before they choose to surrender)

I got banned 5 minutes right after this game so I believe this was a bot that might have misunderstanding of that happened during this game.

I also posted a Reddit link of something that might be related to what happened to me. https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/7adx38/psa_do_not_get_baited_into_using_inappropriate/

12 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer11/3/2017, 2:41:27 AM5 votes

After the game was finished I ended up going 30/8/3 on riven

Doesn't matter in the slightest.

Crown Riven: kys tsm %%%s

Yeah, that's not "banter". Slurs and calls to self harm will get your account to an immediate 14 day ban. You used 2 different zero tolerance phrases, within the same sentence, no less.

Ban deserved.

Silent Gravity11/3/2017, 2:41:33 AM2 votes

There is no difference between one report and five hundred thirty million reports. All a report does is trigger the IFS to review the game.

Urging self harm, hate speech, or any other extreme toxicity will cause a punishment that skips punishment tiers.

You used two of those, so it is perfectly normal for you to have received a 14/15 day ban.

Xidphel11/3/2017, 3:31:05 AM1 votes

Crown Riven: kys tsm %%%s

You used hate speech and "kys". Riot has zero tolerance to those things.

General Esdeath 11/3/2017, 3:40:18 AM1 votes

"OK let's read this chat log and see if OP was toxic or not"

kys tsm %%%s

OK I think we're done here.

DepressedAhri11/3/2017, 4:00:08 AM1 votes

As someone who has attempted twice before, I do not find this funny or as "banter" regardless of the intent or time of usage.

Wife In Lantern11/3/2017, 2:39:41 AM1 votes

why am i not surprised you're a riven main

ModThe Djinn11/3/2017, 4:09:40 AM1 votes

Encouraging other players to self-harm, even as a "joke," is zero-tolerance behavior. So is hate speech and pejorative language, which the censored text in your chat log definitely is. There are no circumstances where this behavior is acceptable in League chat.

Kuromatsu11/3/2017, 3:29:33 AM1 votes

u used "kys" which apparently is a zero tolerance no matter what. i got banned for that too. its dumb really. but riot only cares about money imo.