When a Player IDs themselves as Riot Employee and Issues Ban Threats?

Knightmare07·2/28/2017, 2:57:51 PM·3 votes·1,479 views

I have the screen shot, Riot please message me and I will provide the screen shot. Identifying yourself as a Riot employee and then threatening to ban someone after you spent the whole game flaming the crap out of someone with your duo providing extra heat is bullshit. I am really getting tired of the flaming Riot, 7 seasons and you still have not brought this under control. In fact, I would say it's worse now than ever before, I left the game Season 6 I was so tired of the out of control trolls and I am about ready to leave again and I have only been back 3 weeks.

12 Comments

Ambient Snow2/28/2017, 3:22:20 PM5 votes

Had this happen once.. well sorta. kid said his dad worked for riot and his dad was going to get a player banned..

we reported him and shortly after I got the notification he was punished

so they take that stuff seriously

Kei1432/28/2017, 3:08:39 PM4 votes

If it was a Riot employee, they'll loose their jobs.

impersonating Riot Employees (consistently) is a 14-day ban.

1374342/28/2017, 3:31:46 PM1 votes

Why are you expecting Riot to reach out to you? Why don't you just contact support yourself?

YerroFever2/28/2017, 6:08:06 PM1 votes

Submit a support ticket. There are plenty of people who are riot employees and also know riot employees IRL because they don't live in a riot bubble. No riot employee would actually threaten you with bans. They would bring your behavior up and flag your account and then you'll get a review and if your review is justified in bans, you will get banned. You will have no discussion and it will be done privately. You don't get party or allchat discussions during a game because if they really wanted to ban you, they would let you go on and on and on and dig your own grave and then punish you after the game. There's actually no purpose to threatening bans during a game. Riot will dish out punishment (light for first timers or permanent for recidivists) or you don't (if it's not to the level).

Riot employees are held to the same standard as the community because they lead by example. I have played several games with riot employees and they have demonstrated nothing but exemplary behavior in game, so I HIGHLY doubt you actually were in a game with a Riot employee. You were threatened with a ban by some troll because they want you to be afraid of reporting them or just think "ugh f*cking riot employee" and then just hit play another without reporting them.

Don't believe when trolls tell you it. Mute them and then report them at the end of the game. Consider in game threats of ban from alleged riot employees as phishing emails claiming they're your bank and that you have to put in your personal information and passwords to your online bank accounts.

Submit the support ticket and don't give another thought to it.

ModMod Curator3/2/2017, 4:58:17 AM1 votes

For future reference, you can simply report them using the post-game reporting feature and make a note that they stated they are a Rioter and what they said.

As others have stated, impersonating a Rioter is a punishable activity. If they are an actual Rioter, then this will let Riot know they're using their position improperly. They don't allow that.