OK... story time. I was in a game of norms, trying to enjoy myself after a stressful day. Unfortunately, our team's Lee Sin decided to flame chat, intentionally feed (I don't mean he was bad, I mean he ran under mid tower without attacking the enemy champ... twice) and went afk in little patches here and there. I was trying to organise a 9 stack report on the guy, and I will admit I was toxic to him in the process, but said nothing worse than what was said to me. Fast-forward to end-game lobby: The guy says "fun fact! If you report the people who report you, Riot disregards it". So I report him and move on with my life. When I log 30 mins later, I'm chat restricted, with the chat from that very game being the sample they gave me as to why. It took my honor level down to 1, and locked it. This happened about a month ago, no toxicity, and I'm still locked. Any reason why this may be?
Keep in mind that all but one person on my team was as irritated as I was, so this is a punishment from this guys return report alone.
I do understand why Riot is doing this though: Personally, I'm never going to be toxic again, even to people who flame me first. Being chat restricted really irritated me, especially because my first game being chat restricted I was laning top against someone who kept all chatting me and being friendly, and I had wanted to respond to them.