14 Day For Joking With Friend

Hãvøk··2 votes·349 views

This is probably gonna be instantly down voted just because it's about a ban, but if you're reading, hear me out.

So yesterday I got instantly banned after a game for 14 days and I was shocked, because there was no warning beforehand or even any other punishments. I read through my chat log and noticed a few texts that could be considered toxic and I realized in the game I said kys. After some research it turns out that this was likely the reason for the 14 day.

But the thing is the context for this was that it was directed at a friend of mine who I know from school. He was playing Ezreal and he stole my kill with this insane Q and in the spur I just said kys to him. We always joke aggressively like this to each other and we were not in a call so I thought nothing of it.

I'm not saying I was completely innocent that game, as I did say lines that were toxic (one or two also to Ezreal again). But in the past my only punishment was a chat restrict where I was way more toxic in those 3 games than I was in this game. I also realize that the kys could seem like it was meant to anyone, but it wasn't in all chat and it was immediately after his ks. Yes I know joking with a friend can be unclear to the other teammates in our game. Yes I know I was toxic in the game but it didn't warrant any worse than something like a chat restrict other than the kys I said.

I have to say this part as well, and I know I'm gonna likely get flak for it, but it doesn't matter. I want to call out the community for being way too easily offended. Everyone has emotions, everyone reacts differently, everyone reacts to what you say differently, but there are so many other games where the harassment is worse and many people just move on because it's a game. Yes there are the few who don't move on because not everyone is the same, but a perfect community that isn't toxic? That's very hard to achieve because people will always get angry in a game as stressful as league and need to express their emotion. I'm not even trying to defend that my kys was innocent but just that this community is way too harsh towards people expressing HUMAN emotion (not that all of it is justified).

Anyways yea that's about it if you decided to stick around and read through, I'll post chat logs later as I'm not home.

9 Comments

Imperial Pandaa4 votes

Keep jokes like that to voice comms or /whisper.

Hãvøk1 votes

Well I did say it was spur of the moment, so I didn't really think because all I saw was him hit the q and it was kind of like an "are you serious you hit that reaction".

elo trash3 votes

You still said it, your account, your actions, own up to them. next is a perm ban, you will also be at honor 0.

Hãvøk2 votes

You didn't read did you, I said I'm not defending myself didn't I and I never said I didn't say it either. I don't really mind serving a ban but is it fair to jump to 14 days for a careless mistake?

elo trash1 votes

yes i read it, yest it was worth.

its not careless one does not simply type "kys" into chat

Hãvøk1 votes

It was careless though? Did I tell someone seriously to kill themself? No. I told my friend for stealing a kill to kys as a joke. Our society is interesting in that words become less meaningful when said to friends as their meanings change and that is what occurred. So yes I did simply type "kys" into chat to my friend.

Jo0o1 votes

In a perfect world everybody would be immune to words holding the potential to upset them, but we're a long ways away from accomplishing that as a society.

It's very reasonable to expect folks to not flame their teammates, nor to use zero-tolerance words and phrases. Most people never get so much as a chat restriction in this game.

Hãvøk1 votes

I'm not defending it but is it that reasonable? Many people say things that could be deemed negative or even something as simple as play safe can be seen as an attack. You can see streamers also getting frustrated and lashing out at their teammates. It's clearly more common than you believe.

Jo0o1 votes

Come now, there are pretty clear lines. Nobody will ever get chat restricted for saying "play safe".

Streamers may occasionally say things like "Wow, this jungler is an idiot". The difference is, they're speaking those words. You're certainly allowed to let off some steam verbally, just not with the chat system.

Streamers virtually never act toxic in chat. And when they do, they face punishments just like the rest of us.

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