When is it enough?

NJSP Trooper··7 votes·814 views

@Riot Wen't through another game where a player said "Kill yourself". I've seen posts on the front page raising awareness on said issue. Considering the amount of feedback you guys have been getting in regards to the abuse of this message, why are players not getting permanently banned for this on their first offense?It's clearly not being dealt with because on the number of times I've reported players on this issue, I see they're still playing matches after being reported for saying "kill yourself". You have amazing people with talented coding capabilities in your company, I don't see why you guys couldn't come up with a system that instantly triggers and bans players who type any form of suicide encouragement. You guys are risking a legal matter here in the US. That is if the victim lives in a state where encouraging suicide is illegal. For example, in section 2304 of the New York State penal law, a person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking the latter's life, is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. You could be sent up to New York and fined because you allowed this encouragement to continue by not reforming your banning system accordingly. Please take action.

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This was sort of my thought as I was reading this ^ . If someone actually kills themselves because of a comment on this game, it's the suicidal person with the issue and I don't think riot has anything to worry about legally.

Don't get me wrong. It's toxic and it brings the team down for sure, but I don't think someone should be permanently banned for saying "Kill yourself". Perhaps just suspended for being a toxic player.

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