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Techno Athena·10/25/2016, 8:32:03 PM·1 votes·461 views

I submitted a ticket to Riot, but I would also like to post it here in hopes of getting more visibility and maybe some actual answers to my questions:

I reported a player in the second to last game I played in for flaming me. I ended up receiving a chat ban for 25 games. This is my second chat ban. In both of my bans, while I may have used "inappropriate language" I was only responding to someone who was flaming me. In this last game I was 3/1 as a support (and I was not intentionally stealing kills) and my adc was the only negative KDA player on our team. She started calling me trash and telling me to never support, etc. Now, I responded by using terms that some people don't respond well to, but I do not see why I am being discriminated against for my lexicon. This is not a professional setting. This is not a setting for small children. I do not see any reason why Riot is trying to dictate player's word choice.

From here, I have three main questions:

  1. Why does Riot insist on punishing people who have good teamwork (you can see I was cooperating with the rest of the team who agreed with me) but choose to use language that Riot disapproves of? How does this go along with freedom of speech?

  2. Will this chat ban affect my end of season rewards? I have spent considerable time and money this season on both mine and my husband's account and I can guarantee that if I do not get the things I put time into you will be losing even more players. Things like this are why players are leaving League.

  3. Why did Riot remove Tribunal? Things like this never happened when actual people reviewed each case.

13 Comments

AeroWaffle10/25/2016, 8:40:13 PM4 votes

  1. Freedom of speech doesn't work that way. You can still be held responsible for what you say. Freedom of speech protects you from being prosecuted by the government for what you say. Riot is perfectly within their rights to deny you access to their content.

  2. If the chat ban is still there when the season ends, yes.

  3. Retaliation was never an accepted excuse for poor behavior.

SSJTribe10/26/2016, 5:14:43 PM3 votes

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png

InTheory10/25/2016, 9:22:33 PM2 votes

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SrbLud10/25/2016, 8:48:51 PM1 votes

I was only responding to someone who was flaming me.

Riot is against this and only your actions matter no matter what anyone says.

Why does Riot insist on punishing people who have good teamwork (you can see I was cooperating with the rest of the team who agreed with me) but choose to use language that Riot disapproves of? How does this go along with freedom of speech?

Being a team player doesn't give you immunity to flame other people. Bad language is acceptable as long as it's not meant to insult someone. League of Legends doesn't have to follow the free speech laws. They can determine their own rules.

Will this chat ban affect my end of season rewards? I have spent considerable time and money this season on both mine and my husband's account and I can guarantee that if I do not get the things I put time into you will be losing even more players. Things like this are why players are leaving League.

Chat restrictions only void rewards while in effect. Meaning it won't affect them after you're done with them by the seasons end.

Why did Riot remove Tribunal? Things like this never happened when actual people reviewed each case.

Tribunal is getting a rework but it's far off the radar.

EvilDustMan10/25/2016, 9:32:07 PM1 votes

Because flaming back against a flamer does absolutely nothing to solve the problem.