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Falsely Chat-Banned

OhMyLantern··2 votes·822 views

Hello, everyone!

Here today to talk about an unfair chat ban that I received.

In a recent match, a pre-made team that I was on went against another team that was also pre-made, except that the other team consisted of sore losers, then sore winners. After ignoring and muting, losing and eventual reporting, I received a message that I had a chat ban. Now, I know there's no way I can prove what was said in chat (if I was raging along with them or not), but as a Summoner that is usually more than likely honored for good sportsmanship, I don't think I should have received a ban for being reported 5 times by a team that was just trying to get a rise out of someone and that knew 5 reports would result in a punishment. The enemy team spammed chat with usual things like:

  1. "Are you autistic?
  2. "Are you f-ng 12? Because you suck so bad."
  3. "You guys a trash please die"
  4. "You guys are losing soooo badly. Are you mad? You should be because you suck d---k."

I mean, who wouldn't mute someone? We all know that getting mad at players with bad behavior just adds fuel to the fire.

I really wish the chat restriction could be alleviated, but I'm willing to deal with another 9 games to have it lifted. Is there anyway that this could be fixed? It even went as far as the other team (the 5 that reported me) sending me friend requests to spam me with more hate. I hope this doesn't show up on my account to inhibit me from receiving awards for good sportsmanship. I know that every thing on my account is my responsibility, but I have teammates (who were also reported but not given a punishment) that can vouch for what happened, because this simply isn't fair. As long as there's no permanent damage to my fair account, I can deal with the restriction.

I think that daily honors should override my FIRST "punishment" by a group that literally reported me because they could.

Thank you to those who read and reply,

Illumineaux

14 Comments

Dehitay3 votes

The number of reports you get for a game doesn't really mean anything. A single report flags it and then the system goes through and sees if it finds stuff it's programmed to punish you for. Though I really wish it would send a reported game with punishable content to a human for verification as I've seen really mild stuff get punished before.

OhMyLantern1 votes

Thank you for replying! This was really helpful. I really hope not. Like I recently posted, I'm often honored for good sportsmanship. I'm not trying to brag with that, but I thought it would be silly of the Tribunal to ignore multiple honors over one false punishment.

And yeah, I was emailed what happened in-chat on my side (what I had personally said), and it still isn't fair that I received a chat-restriction. I told the enemy team to stop being toxic, but that just added fuel to the fire.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Show your reform card.

OhMyLantern1 votes

What's a reform card?

(Thank you for replying~)

Ada Wong2 votes

The only thing you can really do is file a support ticket and ask them, but you should have received a reform card in game.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

OhMyLantern1 votes

Alright, thank you very much.

Lil Lewd Witch1 votes

I just had the same thing happen to me, my team because of a duo gaining the support of m,y top and mid to gang up against me andd report me. The adc literally even saidd "Ddont report unskilled report verbal abuse since riot doesnt read logs, they wont ban us anyways."

OhMyLantern2 votes

Yeah, that's a really similar situation. It's really unfair. Considering when I did nothing. Thanks for sharing your experience, I hope you get this issue fixed with me!

ModPrandine1 votes

What others say doesn't matter, what matters is what you say. Retaliation is not okay, and when you do retaliate negatively you force your teammates (and enemies if you do it in all chat) to listen to you rage. If someone's bothering you then just mute them and report them after the game. By not retaliating against them you make sure that the only ones who get punished are them and not you. Also, in order to get chat restricted you have to have a history of behaving poorly across multiple games and not just one.

If you post your Reform Card then we can help you understand where exactly you went wrong and what you can do in the future to avoid getting punished again.

OhMyLantern1 votes

That's how the situation was handled. My report was another attempt to get a rise out of me.

I know why I was punished, I'm just hoping it won't inhibit me from getting rewards, AKA, it being on a "permanent record" of some sort.

I've only ever been reported once before, almost 2 years ago. It never resulted in a punishment, though. And it wasn't for poor behavior.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

I've only ever been reported once before, almost 2 years ago.

You aren't notified every time you get a report. The rare notification that does pop up is when you've had many reports in a short amount of time, not just one.

I know why I was punished, I'm just hoping it won't inhibit me from getting rewards, AKA, it being on a "permanent record" of some sort.

A chat restriction won't make you ineligible for Ranked rewards unless you have an active one when the season ends. An account ban will make you ineligible if you had one within 3 months of season's end (2015 rule, may change). MMR Boosting ban will make you ineligible the whole season.

Basically, no, you're fine.

OhMyLantern1 votes

Alrighty, thanks so much. I understand all of this a lot clearly now. I went through enough games to have the chat-ban lifted, however, I have had to resort to blocking the 5 that reported me due to continuous harassment. I'm glad this is more of a slap on the wrists compared to a more serious situation.

Thank you everyone that replied! You're the best! Nami [zombie-nunu-hearts]

ModPrandine1 votes

{quoted}

That's how the situation was handled. My report was another attempt to get a rise out of me.

I know why I was punished, I'm just hoping it won't inhibit me from getting rewards, AKA, it being on a "permanent record" of some sort.

I've only ever been reported once before, almost 2 years ago. It never resulted in a punishment, though. And it wasn't for poor behavior.

Well just keep in mind a few things here:

  1. Your current punishment tier placement can decay over time if you show good behavior over time.
  2. Once you get two chat restrictions (a 10-game one and a 25-game one) then the next step up is a 2-week ban, and you can actually skip punishment tiers if the offense is severe enough.
  3. The only time you receive a report notice is when the system notices a spike in reports against you (i.e. higher than normal). It's just to tell you to make sure that your behavior is in check so that you don't wind up punished because of it.

Good luck in the future challenges.

OhMyLantern1 votes

Alrighty, thank you very much. Nami <3

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