A riot employee said "hatespeech is zero tolerance"

Its Ketsuki·3/19/2017, 12:17:19 AM·30 votes·4,882 views

So I've reported numerous people who call people N///rs and F//ts yet I never receive a report feedback on those cases at all. and i've seen posts on the forum where a riot employee told a person that he did not do any prior offenses leading to his permaban but since he called someone a F/g he was permabanned

Which is completely understandable and he shouldn't have done that but i've seen way more hatespeech and SEVERE hatespeech be used and never once does a pop up come and say Hey there you did the right thing and we punished someone basically

49 Comments

Reket DeAlk3/19/2017, 12:20:42 AM20 votes

You only get the pop up if it was your report that causes them to get punished. So if they get a punishment the next game you wouldn't see it.

I'm pretty sure they're working on fixing that so you get more viability from your reports. Cause the way it is right now causes a lot of people to think the system isn't working because they don't see the pop up.

But yes, stuff like that is zero tolerance and when they do get caught (Assuming they do it on a regular enough basis) then they'll skip the chat restrictions and get a 14 day ban at least.

EvilDustMan3/19/2017, 11:15:51 AM4 votes

It is zero tolerance. Is it possible something slipped by? Sure.

But there's a reason our mantra us Mute, Report, and Move On.

Report them, then stop dwelling on it. You don't really serve yourself by dwelling on the people after the game is over and you've reported them.

Magical Player3/19/2017, 12:21:13 AM3 votes

If someone reported them right after you they get the notification also a game before could of been the trigger to the punishment as such you also don't get the notification

Great Muta3/19/2017, 1:34:51 AM2 votes

Yep. One of the biggest problems in the game is that they make rules like this, and then people break them and nothing happens.

Cavesloth3/19/2017, 8:47:05 PM2 votes

Yeah I have 0 faith in them, since the fact is you can use the term autistic as a insult and its not considered hate speech. I'm sure autistic people find this just as offensive as calling a little person a midget or calling a black person the N word. Yet this is completely common in league and in general, and it shouldn't be acceptable.

Mus3/19/2017, 12:50:52 PM1 votes

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reiko573/19/2017, 4:22:51 PM1 votes

this is why i report feeders for racism. i never figured they cared about inting or harrassment, but i know they care about racism, so in my mind, it's the only possible way of getting them banned- hope they have a couple "racist or homophobic" strikes and an automated system sees the report and finishes them off. dying more than once the same way (in ranked) is so much more offensive to me than racism, these people deserve permanent bans across all accounts.

MonkeyMadness3/19/2017, 8:25:28 PM1 votes

This is because Riot's punishment system is about as transparent as a brick wall, and they are literally as dishonest about how it works as is possible. If you have any actual questions regarding how bad it is, just ask anyone with a history of a flagged account (ie me). Never been permabanned, but my account has been flagged since season 2, and there's literally nothing I can do about it, regardless of how much I reform (and I've reformed A LOT).

Otherworldz3/20/2017, 3:01:59 PM1 votes

Any punishment done by the instant feedback system will tell you that your report was verified and a punishment was given. All other punishments are audits of that person's account and match/chat history and they cannot inform you of the outcome of their audit. You shouldn't report someone out of vindictiveness, hoping they will get punished... you should be reporting someone because it's the right thing to do and move on from there.

Ward Baron3/20/2017, 10:53:19 PM1 votes

I've been told to "kill myself" many times, played with people named "ni//er" something, said it and never gotten anything popup they have been punished lol

Warlord Scrap3/19/2017, 12:20:30 AM1 votes

it only notifies you if you were the report that got him punished

TheWizBiz77/11/2018, 8:19:46 PM1 votes

We all know that pretty much EVERY game there is one or even two people who are being immature or toxic, or maybe they have been playing 8 games in a row and they want to be silly with their friends and SOMEONE gets mad. The "zero tolerance" claim is a total joke. I have had 3 accounts banned and have spent money on all of them and I never did things or said anything as bad as calling people N...ers or anything hateful. Mostly got banned for telling people they are assholes for doing asshole-ish things like following me around and taking my kills or badgering me for sucking. Either way it is the Internet, we should expect this kind of behavior and be able to ignore it and not report people and have their games and accounts taken away FOREVER because they annoyed you in one match of this REPUTABLY TOXIC game. Permanent bans at the very least should be appealable after a certain amount of time. This game is going to be toxic and stay toxic, the thing that hurts the game the most is the "short leash" that targets new players that are frustrated with the ALREADY toxic community.

Wiggle Dat Butt3/19/2017, 1:12:04 AM1 votes

Sounds to me like the liberal Hillary-lovers need to stop being so sensitive and actually work for something in life instead of trying to cry about reports.

StonePlatypus3/19/2017, 5:39:01 AM1 votes

I've basically given up Riot actually caring. I've sent reports when people use the N word and have said horrible things that they should get banned for. Of course Riot doesn't care and in fact I don't think anyone really gets banned, they couldn't make money that way.

Oh sure they throw a ban here or there to the worst of the accounts, but from my experience you can throw the N word around and then just not say it for a few games, then you can say it again.

You just have to beat Riots "system" (if you can call it that) and not do it all the time. Its how Riot lets people say the N word. They clearly don't want to punish people for using it, they want money.

Aptest3/19/2017, 9:49:43 AM1 votes

I am much more comfortable if riot's actual policy is not zero tolerance.

zero tolerance is zero brain and is very likely to flag the rougher side of valid communication as something it is not.

Also, what is F//ts ?

h5LYF41Lam3/19/2017, 9:50:35 AM1 votes

welcome to the internet,riot is trying to protect the 13-16 audience from this behavior but pretty much on every game you play or chatroom you go in this happens.