Chat Restrictions Should Be More Common

As someone who entered LoL from DotA years ago, and has seen the game progress into what it is today, I feel that the game has reached a point where chat is not at all required to play the game. The one thing that has repeatedly chased me away from the game, however, is the toxic community. Perhaps I'm just an old man at this point, but I've never understood the leniency towards players who consistently verbally abuse fellow players.

While it is nice to be able to use chat for teamwork, the most common use seems to be toxic behavior. Perhaps toxic players would get the hint if they were chat banned when all four members of their team (non-grouped) report them for verbal abuse, in conjunction with some level of chat automation (uses specific keywords some set number of times throughout the course of a game).

While it is effectively nothing, many children will immediately stop a negative behavior when an authoritative source informs them that their behavior is unacceptable. Unfortunately, these same children frequently consider themselves superior to their teammates, and therefore cannot comprehend any sort of feedback from their teammates, however well-formed it is. A quick hand slap when players act out may help to at least partially improve the overall experience in league.