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10 day chat restriction for 1 game. Deserved? Tips?

Pichu Cottontail·3/14/2019, 12:34:19 AM·3 votes·4,679 views

Hey there all. I'm a little pissed about this because I've never had a restriction before. Maybe it's deserved, maybe I should've gotten some sort of "warning" first, maybe it was too harsh of a punishment. i dont know. I like to get more opinions on this matter. This game where i was talking too much or "asking for reports" was toxic in many ways of course. (standard soloQ experience) I guess i should've just ignored the flamers and not get baited into flaming aswell. But i got chat restricted for just this one game (I guess almost everyone reported me). They only showed me the logs of this one game to chat restrict me. So it feels a little unfair to get my 'clean slate' ruined for 1 unlucky game....

Questions: Deserved? What put me 'over the edge' to get restricted?

What did I learn: don't get baited into flaming. The mute button's existence.

Chat log: https://imgur.com/71BPdC8 (the first line was in response to enemy mid laner karthus saying "please spare my old self" or something

Context if you're interested: I (Shyvana) made a bad play in bot lane (Varus). So he was like "trash jungler" and i was explaining my mistake. all good i kept my cool there. I was getting behind and decided to power farm a little and come back bot to try to correct my mistake. we eventually got a 2 for 2 which is not optimal since enemy draven got 2 of the kills. But bot lane then decides to flame my "focus on the draven" and starting to blame me for everything. I always get a little angry when people get toxic at me, I only flame when someone flames on me personally. I do like to flame toxic people back. might've been the issue After the early game, varus just continues to pester me and be like "trash jungle" "jungle differene etc." making me more tilted (i should've muted, yeah, but i thought maybe he could get chill after a while... maybe i'm too naive?) during the whole mid game. enemy jungle and midlaner we're trashtalking us all in allchat. "the game is over etc." Later in the game Varus decided to troll and "play a minion" running it down a lane and dying to rengar over and over. literally inting in my book.

Thank ya'll for reading!

14 Comments

AgeOfShadow923/14/2019, 2:38:08 PM4 votes

I would say no. But, Riot uses kindergarten rules so if you are getting angry at the person being toxic or trolling you're just as guilty. So, technically yes, you deserve it. As someone with a brain that doesn't think in black and white, no you dont, but I don't decide who gets punishments, so it's best to mute.

Kuthillick3/14/2019, 12:38:12 AM3 votes

Context doesn't matter. This is negative enough overall to merit a chat restriction in my opinion. Asking for reports isn't necessary as one report does the same as 9 in a game. Just mute and move on.

Troy2426213/14/2019, 9:55:57 PM2 votes

Maybe by Riot's standards you "deserved" it, but they can be really heavy-handed sometimes. This was a really silly and unnecessary chat restriction, but the upshot is you're probably not consistently toxic, so you'll be out of the escalating restriction zone really quickly.

GatekeeperTDS3/14/2019, 12:51:00 AM1 votes

Yes, as you said, you should have ignored the person flaming you.

Remember, when two people have a flame war, there are up to 8 other people in the match who just want to play the game and not deal with two people throwing shit at each other. The enemy team especially doesn't give a shit about who you want to report.

Hotarµ3/14/2019, 5:34:05 PM1 votes

Yeah. While this isn't the most heinous log I've ever seen, you were engaging in some pretty toxic behavior throughout the game.

You asked for reports all throughout the game (which after a certain point becomes player harassment because it only takes one report to trigger a game for automatic review), told someone to "stfu", and called Varus a stupid inter.

On the bright side: It's only a 10 game chat restriction, no big deal. It takes a little while to climb back to Honor 2 but you'll have Hextech rewards and chat back in no time. Don't stress it.

In the future (I know you said you learned this above) just mute and report the person who's flaming. It's tough to let them get the last word but at the end of the day they're getting reported and you aren't. Be the bigger person and your games will be way more enjoyable + stress free. Good luck :p