Chat Restrictions / Punishable Offenses

The current handling of chat in league of legends is very poor.

In a long history of online and competitive gaming I have never had any issues with reports/banning, as I suspect many don't, until League of Legends. And I only have issues with the chat system.

Why is that you might wonder? Because League offers a seemingly open chat system complete with the option to swear, including leaving words uncensored that will give you instant massive punishment, and then leaves a devil's clause at the end. 'If it doesn't offend anyone and you don't get reported for it.'

The whole concept of 'offense based' chat punishments/banning needs to leave the game.

In a game filled with rampant toxicity, you create a new level of toxicity by making interaction with toxic teammates a minefield of possible punishment and banning. It's a carnival dart board if a joke is OK, if a comment is OK, or if that comment means you open your client to a punishment screen.

Either all obviously offensive words should be fully censored and otherwise chat is just a stand alone system or chat just needs to be removed entirely. The 'allowing people to swear', but then being hyper aggressive when someone gets offended feels like a grandmother trying to be cool and saying it's OK to use the f-word around her. It's silly. My experience with League is they are extremely sensitive to anything you say and it's best to just not talk at all because it's all about random people getting offended. Super fun.

It's insane to think you can play a game where you watch a 12 year old girl get stabbed and shoved into a meat grinder where she explodes into blood, but you can't tell your grown adult teammate that they are playing poorly.