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Arashiiko·1/29/2020, 7:01:45 PM·12 votes·9,830 views

There seems to be a lot of confusion on this forum with many players not fully knowing Riot's expectations for player behavior, so I'd like to clear some of it up since many players don't understand the reasons why they are being banned and display chat logs that give clear examples of the types of behavior Riot wants to remove from the community. This leads to players repeating actions and eventually winding up permanently banned since they don't understand exactly what they did wrong.

I would like you to read this quote from the League of Legends Terms of Use Section 7 that states a player can be banned for:

Transmitting or communicating any content which we reasonably believe to be offensive to players, including language that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, or racially, ethically, or otherwise objectionable;

I'd like for you to be mindful of the "offensive to players part." This part of the Terms of Use means that if someone reports you for offensive language and you said anything that can be remotely interpreted as offensive then Riot is within their rights to take action against your account. Even cursing in a game can be deemed as offensive language and harmful to a positive environment, even if you're not cursing directly at another player! (For example, "what the f***** was botlane thinking??") Of course this sort of thing isn't always banned for, but if you're looking to avoid having negative actions taken against your account then cursing at others is definitely something to avoid doing.

Keep in mind, there's a different between saying "Good sh***** yasuo!" and "what the f***** yas?" The ban system generally won't ban unless you're being exceptionally toxic towards other players, but if you're worried about bans try to avoid cursing negatively.

There are some examples of common behavior that are completely reportable offenses and will lead to account action, but here are the primary ones that get posted on this forum.

1.)Asking others to report someone on your team. This is deemed as harassing behavior and is unnecessary since one report weighs just as much as 9 reports in the report system. The way the system works is by flagging a game for review. It doesn't matter how many times you flag the game for review, the answer will always come back the same from the conduct review system. Also, multiple reports don't flag the system multiple times. The game is only reviewed by the system once, but even if it did the answer would come back the same each time.

2.)Pointing out the mistakes of other teammates in a negative manner, or berating the same mistake over and over. Yes, I know you really want to flame your Ahri for not contesting that river scuttle, but is that worth losing LP? There is very little satisfaction to be gained from flaming your teammates, but flaming them can potentially cause them to tilt and no longer be helpful for the rest of the game.

This isn't to be confused with positive criticism, like "That ward would be better placed right here" or "make sure you ward if you're going to shove your lane." Negative criticism examples would include:

 "wtf dude why didn't you ________"
 "you're legit the worst ______ i've ever had" 
 "uninstall"
 "trash mid."
 "this jg legit hasnt ganked at all and still cant do anything"
 "mid hasnt done anything all game" 
 "this toplaner is inting" 
 "you're legit brain damaged" 
 "how tf did you think that was a good idea"

All of these are examples of negative criticism from real games and chat restriction logs. Also, if your support died level 2 because of some failed flash or poor decision they made and you're still talking about that same mistake 15 minutes later that can be considered harassing. It's okay to say "I don't know if that was the right play there." but if you're berating someone for a mistake they made over and over that's harassing and does nothing to make them play better.

Chances are your teammate noticed the mistake they made and that their decision wasn't the right one.

The only thing that your spam pinging and flaming will do is tilt them and reduce the chances of them making good decisions in the future. This can be deemed as offensive or harassing depending on the nature of what you said. Stating "You're inting" or statements of that nature like that is a good way to get banned. If they're truly intentionally feeding, report them after the game. If you're really sure they're intentionally feeding you can even take clips of the game and send in examples of their behavior in a ticket.

Before posting a thread, please check and see if your chatban meets any of this criteria. If it doesn't, great! Post it and maybe we can help point out why exactly you got banned for the future.

Have fun out there, and stay positive on the Rift!

24 Comments

Umbral Regent1/29/2020, 7:30:36 PM5 votes

All of this is pretty on point, though I would like to point something out;

Even cursing in a game can be deemed as offensive language and harmful to a positive environment, even if you're not cursing directly at another player! Of course this sort of thing isn't always banned for, but if you're looking to avoid having negative actions taken against your account then cursing is definitely something to avoid doing.

Cursing - when not directed at other players and done within reason - is completely fine. The IFS won't action against a player for simply exclaiming "fuck" or "shit" or "damn" here and there, and there are even positive uses of cursing, like "fuck yeah" or "that's the shit".

I like to say that it's the line between "fuck yeah" or "oh shit" and "go fuck yourself" or "you piece of shit". The former is fine, and the latter isn't.

Besides that small point, though, really solid info.

Urinetrouble071/30/2020, 12:33:28 AM3 votes

The bot has 0 context. It's been shown many times, while you have good points I truly think rito's efforts are trash and they don't care. The amount of times people get reported and ACTUALLY PUNISHED for verbal abuse is high. In fact it's too high. The amount of inters, trolls, intentional loss kinda of people that get banned? My guess since I've never seen a report of it or seen anyone I've reported "stop playing" is maybe 1/10,000. They have a bot who doesn't use context but they have no solution for the problems we ACTUALLY need stopped. Verbal abuse is so small you can mute. What i can't stop is someone soft inting until they're 2-10. I might be low elo but there is absolutely no reason to die 10 times in a 20 minute game. Yet people can continue to do that though all 20 of their recent played games and just keep on truckin. Rito's systems don't work and they are incredibly lazy in this section. GG

Knife88Edge1/30/2020, 3:42:48 AM3 votes

{quoted}

There seems to be a lot of confusion on this forum with many players not fully knowing Riot's expectations for player behavior, so I'd like to clear some of it up since many players don't understand the reasons why they are being banned and display chat logs that give clear examples of the types of behavior Riot wants to remove from the community. This leads to players repeating actions and eventually winding up permanently banned since they don't understand exactly what they did wrong.

I would like you to read this quote from the League of Legends Terms of Use Section 7 that states a player can be banned for:

I'd like for you to be mindful of the "offensive to players part." This part of the Terms of Use means that if someone reports you for offensive language and you said anything that can be remotely interpreted as offensive then Riot is within their rights to take action against your account. Even cursing in a game can be deemed as offensive language and harmful to a positive environment, even if you're not cursing directly at another player! (For example, "what the f***** was botlane thinking??") Of course this sort of thing isn't always banned for, but if you're looking to avoid having negative actions taken against your account then cursing at others is definitely something to avoid doing.

Keep in mind, there's a different between saying "Good sh***** yasuo!" and "what the f***** yas?" The ban system generally won't ban unless you're being exceptionally toxic towards other players, but if you're worried about bans try to avoid cursing negatively.

There are some examples of common behavior that are completely reportable offenses and will lead to account action, but here are the primary ones that get posted on this forum.

1.)Asking others to report someone on your team. This is deemed as harassing behavior and is unnecessary since one report weighs just as much as 9 reports in the report system. The way the system works is by flagging a game for review. It doesn't matter how many times you flag the game for review, the answer will always come back the same from the conduct review system. Also, multiple reports don't flag the system multiple times. The game is only reviewed by the system once, but even if it did the answer would come back the same each time.

2.)Pointing out the mistakes of other teammates in a negative manner, or berating the same mistake over and over. Yes, I know you really want to flame your Ahri for not contesting that river scuttle, but is that worth losing LP? There is very little satisfaction to be gained from flaming your teammates, but flaming them can potentially cause them to tilt and no longer be helpful for the rest of the game.

This isn't to be confused with positive criticism, like "That ward would be better placed right here" or "make sure you ward if you're going to shove your lane." Negative criticism examples would include:

 "wtf dude why didn't you ________"
 "you're legit the worst ______ i've ever had" 
 "uninstall"
 "trash mid."
 "this jg legit hasnt ganked at all and still cant do anything"
 "mid hasnt done anything all game" 
 "this toplaner is inting" 
 "you're legit brain damaged" 
 "how tf did you think that was a good idea"

All of these are examples of negative criticism from real games and chat restriction logs. Also, if your support died level 2 because of some failed flash or poor decision they made and you're still talking about that same mistake 15 minutes later that can be considered harassing. It's okay to say "I don't know if that was the right play there." but if you're berating someone for a mistake they made over and over that's harassing and does nothing to make them play better.

Chances are your teammate noticed the mistake they made and that their decision wasn't the right one.

The only thing that your spam pinging and flaming will do is tilt them and reduce the chances of them making good decisions in the future. This can be deemed as offensive or harassing depending on the nature of what you said. Stating "You're inting" or statements of that nature like that is a good way to get banned. If they're truly intentionally feeding, report them after the game. If you're really sure they're intentionally feeding you can even take clips of the game and send in examples of their behavior in a ticket.

Before posting a thread, please check and see if your chatban meets any of this criteria. If it doesn't, great! Post it and maybe we can help point out why exactly you got banned for the future.

Have fun out there, and stay positive on the Rift!

This is the shit I needed before I got 10-game chat restricted for defending myself. Would've saved me a lot of trouble explaining myself if this was out in public. This should be made more visible to players in-game.

Pombagira1/29/2020, 8:11:02 PM2 votes

I wish this post was stickied! Well written and straight to the point.

General Esdeath 1/29/2020, 9:49:27 PM2 votes

I don't have time to read all of this, can someone just tell me why I was banned for defending myself?!?

:^)

iEgIrTobias1/29/2020, 7:56:44 PM2 votes

Yeah UNFORTUNATELY it won't matter or apply to half of the players I've already seen or dealt with or even myself tbh.

The reason I say that is because half of them don't care and will receive little to no punishment, especially if that's their "first" or whatever offence as long as it's not SUPER severe. Like for example telling someone "You're shit" and then that player that they flamed tilts, then arguments are exchanged and that player who is already tilted says a few more severe things compared to the person who initially flamed. THAT tilted player will be higher on the risk of getting a CR (Chat restriction) or ban compared to the person who fueled the fire.

I mean I do agree with lets say someone is being just pure negative or even racist should receive a more severe punishment, but at the same thing think that the idiot person fueling the fire or starting it should be JUST as liable.

However I don't believe the whole 1 report doesn't change compared to 9 reports or whatever. Unless I see clear proof that that's how it works? My mind is set to think that. Just from experience with bans and etc. Not to mention.. You mentioned stating that it gets flagged to be viewed, but sure enough no one reviews it unless proven too? The way it seems is just something that goes through the chat to detect offensive words or flaming etc by a bot or some kind of system. I also say this because having a toxic player in consecutive games of aram before and still little to no punishment, then seeing a few days later that same player still talking in all chat and nothing.

If anything I just have ZERO expectations and hope in riots ban system because it's so flawed and seems to be really ridiculous at times. Coming from a guy who has multiple perma-banned accounts also. (Not to flex)

Zilarious2/2/2020, 8:23:06 PM1 votes

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There are some examples of common behavior that are completely reportable offenses and will lead to account action, but here are the primary ones that get posted on this forum.

1.)Asking others to report someone on your team. This is deemed as harassing behavior and is unnecessary since one report weighs just as much as 9 reports in the report system. The way the system works is by flagging a game for review. It doesn't matter how many times you flag the game for review, the answer will always come back the same from the conduct review system. Also, multiple reports don't flag the system multiple times. The game is only reviewed by the system once, but even if it did the answer would come back the same each time. ^^^ this needs to be changed. you are expecting a player base to just sit their and accept verbal abuse harassment whatever the abuse may be and they aren't allowed to even talk about what's happening they aren't allowed to congress with their team or the enemy on how they should be handled?

Arashiiko1/29/2020, 8:06:46 PM1 votes

Alright. Let me go over your points.

The reason I say that is because half of them don't care and will receive little to no punishment, especially if that's their "first" or whatever offence as long as it's not SUPER severe.

This doesn't really have much to do with the boards. My post is mostly directed towards people who post chat logs that clearly break the rules in this boards section asking why they got banned. I personally dislike the ban system, and I have recommendations to fix it but that's not the focus of this post.

Unless I see clear proof that that's how it works? My mind is set to think that. Just from experience with bans and etc.

Riot themselves has stated how the ban system works multiple times in this forum. They have no reason to lie, and I'll believe the word of the Rioters who designed the system over a personal case experience.

I also say this because having a toxic player in consecutive games of aram before and still little to no punishment, then seeing a few days later that same player still talking in all chat and nothing.

People don't get banned over one game. Not two, or not even three. If you notice, the honor system has stated that "legitimate reports on your account slow your honor progress". Meaning you can get legitimately reported and the system most likely has a strike system. If the system gets flagged often enough on your account, you receive an account penalty.

I've been banned up to a 2 week ban. I learned how their ban system worked, changed my attitude, and reformed the way I play. The fact that you have multiple permanently banned accounts actually subtracts from your credibility because if you knew how the system worked you would be able to avoid getting your accounts permanently banned.

NF Remilia1/29/2020, 10:54:48 PM1 votes

"But i only defended myself , yes i wished few peoples death but thats only after they called me an idiot because i flashed into 5 enemy players and died"

TheDangerousTaco1/29/2020, 10:54:57 PM1 votes

I can begin to tell you how many times I tilted and play worse due to someone spam pinging me. Thank you for this