Is there still a zero tolerance policy for certain phrases?

FairyTaleHappy·6/16/2019, 11:37:46 PM·14 votes·12,192 views

On two separate occasions I sent in a ticket to Riot Support to report players that both said "KYS" and some other phrases in the chat. My understanding is that "KYS" is a severe enough phrase to warrant an immediate 14 day ban. On one of the reports the offending player received a 14 day ban (which I know because I checked their account to see their match history) and the other player has not received anything more restrictive than a chat ban since the account is still playing. The screenshot is what I managed to grab in the pre game lobby before somebody dodged. TLDR: How does this behavior NOT warrant at least a 14 day ban? P.S. please disregard the frame, I am very new and don't have any color palettes.

47 Comments

General Esdeath 6/17/2019, 2:45:41 AM6 votes

I've sent in tickets and people still aren't punished

Riot doesn't give a shit anymore

The Anivia OTP6/17/2019, 1:06:48 PM3 votes

Same for me , he didn't get banned

Nea1046/17/2019, 1:01:32 PM3 votes

Not sure about k--, but "ret----d" is now allowed. And also, calling your mum a "wh-re". No punishment whatsoever for the last 7 cases, in my experience.

Good job Riot, making this community better and better :D

Glaricion6/17/2019, 3:11:02 AM3 votes

What even set the guy off, are people still rage quitting because someone wanted to play Yuumi?

XJ999999999999996/16/2019, 11:42:48 PM3 votes

thank you tyler1

C9 Aphrolift6/17/2019, 3:23:09 PM2 votes

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Jerry SeinfeId6/17/2019, 10:55:56 AM2 votes

In na afaik yes. Idk if it gives you instant 2 weeks tho.

(which I know because I checked their account to see their match history)

Y'all need better things to do in your lives.

PavLoo6/17/2019, 11:09:53 AM1 votes

Good thing you ss'd this. Do you still have the version without the censored name? If yes, report that to Riot Support, they'll get the job done.

Vapor Wave Vibes6/17/2019, 1:11:57 AM1 votes

More likely to happen if you repeat the word in other games like you won't get banned if you say it 1 out of 1000.

Kanzler6/17/2019, 4:08:00 PM1 votes

Single tolerance. You get a freebie before getting punished.

ModPeriscope6/17/2019, 4:26:28 PM1 votes

Yes, when threats are detected, they are typically met with a 2-week suspension, thus why it's considered a zero tolerance phrase. I don't know about "r%%%%%" being zero tolerance, tbh.

ARequestOfDeath6/17/2019, 6:12:31 PM1 votes

I'm still for the quarantine ban idea. Toxic players get matched with exclusively toxic players. Sure some may view it as "not a solution". But it gives them a label that can be used against them. A similar thing is the only thing that keeps the toxic part of 4chan out of the rest of the site along with the internet with /pol/

ArthimetesArto6/17/2019, 7:15:58 PM1 votes

Yeah ive already had a ton of game where people were using hard racial slurs, constantly calling people autistic and r%%%%%ed, telling the enemy team in all chat where teammates are and to gank them, and even nonstop strings of racial slurs and hate speech phrases while int feeding.

I have probably reported about 50 people who have violated the "no tolerance" rules and of all of them i got a punishment popup once and i even friended a few of the worst offenders to see if they'd get banned and nope still playing daily, even played again with a few and not even chat restricted.

I got a chat restriction for arguing with my team without using any insults or anything, just a simple argument, you know the type. Team called me r%%%%%ed because i didnt group a single time or something then there was like a 5 min back and forth until i muted them. We still won the game, nobody on my team was trolling or anything that game, just a lil spat then we kept playing.

how is arguing with ur team without even insulting them while still participating in the game considered worse and is punished over the "no tolerance" rules of hate speech and racial slurs and int feeding?

Commissar Nashor6/18/2019, 1:02:13 PM1 votes

Because Riot's banning system is trash on most levels. Just received a 10 game chat ban for asking 4 times in about 2-3 minutes for a report on a pre-made bottom lane that inted half the game and started wishing death on my family the last 5 minutes of the game multiple times. The player that did that is still unbanned from what I can see while I got banned for asking people to report him.

The recent scandal with Nightblue3 only proves how messed up Riot is when it comes to bans.

Killer Kitten6/18/2019, 5:49:44 PM1 votes

Stop being a hypocrite and stop spamming as you say to others because that's the definition of a hypocrite!

Vreivai6/19/2019, 8:04:54 AM1 votes

Maybe people kept pretending "kys" meant "keep yourself safe" so often that people started using it seriously in that way. I've never seen it, but my 28 year-old ass barely knows how young people might be talking.

Probably not the case, though.

Tormentula6/19/2019, 8:27:57 AM1 votes

The biggest issue is riot's 'consistency' policy part of their player behavior system.

Basically, if that player does anything reportable, they absolutely will be punished, BUT before the punishment is issued, riot snoops around to see if they consistently behave like that, and basically say 'eh ok, we'll give him the pass as long as he doesn't do it again the literal next game and also get reported there.'

So the system kinda looks like this;

Say that this is that player in that screenshot:

Game 1: says nothing Game 2: (you are here and report him) Game 3: says nothing

Riot: probs just a bad day

Game 1: says nothing Game 2: toxic (reported) Game 3: toxic (nobody reports so riot assumes nothing happened and resets the consistency cycle)

Riot: looks good to me.

He would have to look like this on riot's end:

Game 1: toxic (reported) Game 2: toxic (reported) Game 3: says nothing

Riot: lets make ivern his only playable champion hehe