Racism and when it crosses the line to where someone deserves to be banned.

GangreneMonk·8/29/2016, 5:00:11 AM·4 votes·569 views

Throughout my League of Legends experience I come across many players who through out derogatory comments about blacks and gays. In fact, my last game I played had a whole team making racist remarks and homophobic remarks towards me just because I was trying to have fun playing a champion in a off role. (Mind you it was Teemo Jungle) But where do those remarks cross the line. There should never be any kind of tolerance to remarks such as those. I personally wish these types of players are permanently banned from the game. Make them lose all their progress and money they spent for making the League Community a hate stricken one.

11 Comments

EMeta8/29/2016, 5:17:11 AM5 votes

It's a tiered system. It's not typically about the severity as much as the repetition and not stopping after several increasingly significant warnings.

Troll Armada8/29/2016, 5:29:30 AM2 votes

Well, I just posted yet another game where cheating/feeding players were not in the least bit worried of getting punished.

With that said, I think Riot does take racist comments relatively seriously given that their priorities are thought policing the player base. Submit a support ticket, and I would expect that action would be taken in this case.

Gary B Enkelis8/29/2016, 11:34:12 AM1 votes

Maybe a temp ban. A chat restriction is fine, too. The offense was done in chat, so removing chat seems to fit the "crime".

If it keeps up then ban.

By the way, iPav is a Teemo player in high diamond or master who jungles it. His recent match history isn't showing a lot of Teemo jungle but I think it used to be like his thing. I dunno. He still does it sometimes.

emreecheek8/29/2016, 8:30:47 PM1 votes

I've been really disappointing by Riot's handling of overt racism, misogyny, and homophobia. Both in the game and on the forums. I guess white, straight dudes are the majority of their NA base, so losing players of color and gays and women is easier than cracking down on the people who buy their product.

My understanding is that this is of course a gamer problem in general, but I've heard that Riot is not as good at handling it as other companies.

Telephone Booth8/31/2016, 4:20:21 AM1 votes

It's just a matter of personal opinion. I don't think anyone should be banned ever for the things they say, but I'm just a brainwashed american, spoiled by free speech. If you're offended by racist/homophobic remarks, you're gonna get offended ALOT in life. I don't think riot should be involved in social interaction between players... the mute feature is there and that should be the extent of their involvement.