Why Bringing back the Tribunal is important

I have been spending the last few days contemplating this seeing multiple boards post about unfair bans or bans not seemingly scaling to the crime or zero tolerance being a driving factor of bans. The thing these all have in common is that these bans are automated and dehumanized.

When the Tribunal was around it was player based and leaving it to the players to define what is bad and what isnt. Having those records of a person's recent games to reference multiple game reports and then come to a decision, not based a singular person but a small jury of Players. This community was built on the players, as jurors obeying and applying the summoners code.

When I first started playing the summoners code was more than just a list of rules created by riot it was something people sometimes quoted in game or actually acted by and it was enforced by the Tribunal. The Tribunal was my favorite part of the reporting system in league. It allowed the players to decide and dictate the summoners code and in that process it in my own experience limited toxic behavior because it was real and human and not just some system developed to expedite the process of punishment. Having the system be automated gives people an idea of what they can get away with, whenever there's a system people find out how it works and function within it without exceeding the rules of the system.

It's cool that riots ban system works but if players were the ones doling out the judgement we might actually see the toxicity lower in games.