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Do bans and suspensions/punishment actually work?

Crimzyn·4/24/2017, 3:39:24 PM·2 votes·545 views

Honest question for those who have received punishment from Riot after being reported...

Does the ban actually work? Have you stopped being a toxic asshole? Have you actually learned your lesson or do you continue to make rude, annoying or negative comments to your team?

The reason I am asking is because I cant believe the amount of people who are still like this in the game. I honestly dont know why there is sooo much hate! And thats another thing... hate breeds hate. Im a veeeeeeeeeery positive person. However... Being exposed to so much shit while trying to play and have fun makes me fcking rage and not give a shit. Im wondering if either;

A) People are not getting banned enough? B) People who get banned will just always be a fucking ass and keep playing and being toxic children no matter what punishment we give them.

I can be an adult and mute them. Ignore the comments I already seen before muting. Know this is just a game and what ever. But the actions and comments made, game or not, can affect someones mental health. And mental heath is no joke. It's a real life thing that people suffer. I am at the point now where in every game I want to tell my team im muting everyone before the shit starts flying so I dont need to deal with it.

17 Comments

ModThe Djinn4/24/2017, 3:42:20 PM5 votes

From Riot's own statistics we know that a good percentage of players who are chat restricted don't earn another punishment. So to some extent the warning works.

Subsequent punishments have a diminishing​ return on success though...But, at that point, the system exists more to remove them from the community than to actively reform them.

KORGtuners4/25/2017, 6:31:30 AM2 votes

Toxic player here.

Banning people more quickly does not reform them. It does discourage them from making a new account.

Most toxic people will remain toxic. The reformers may continue to be grouped with the toxic because it takes time and effort to reform.

Rhuxiie4/24/2017, 6:41:21 PM1 votes

calls assumed toxic player an asshole

ironi iz thikk

Kei1434/24/2017, 7:40:18 PM1 votes

If I use "5% of our playerbase gets chat restricted" and apply it through the levels, you can assume a model of 5% of the playerbase that got restricted will continue to become toxic after their warning.

If you want to be more broad about it, then try the 80/20 rule, where 20% of the players after being chat restricted will continue to be toxic.

If the toxics just reform on their main and their alt is continued to be toxic, then the alt account should climb the punishment ladder pretty quickly.

Of course, it'll be nice if they can release some stats.

Blood Lyrics4/24/2017, 8:04:32 PM1 votes

{quoted} I can be an adult and mute them. Ignore the comments I already seen before muting. Know this is just a game and what ever. But the actions and comments made, game or not, can affect someones mental health. And mental heath is no joke. It's a real life thing that people suffer. I am at the point now where in every game I want to tell my team im muting everyone before the shit starts flying so I dont need to deal with it.

If some anonymous person being toxic to you over an hour long game of League of Legends is enough to affect your mental health, then there are either some serious medical issues that you may be suffering from or some serious issues in your life that are not related to League of Legends (I mean that in the least condescending manner possible). Yes, toxicity will likely piss anyone off, but to the extent of being the primary cause of damaging someone's mental health? That seems like a significant over-exaggeration.

Warwick the OP4/25/2017, 10:58:01 AM1 votes

No, i have gotten a chat ban before and am still toxic and flame my team and tell them to kill themselves daily

Crimzyn4/26/2017, 11:51:04 AM1 votes

Well I am glad to hear from both sides of the community including the people who have been punished in the past. As you could probably tell from reading my post, it was due to frustration after being exposed to too much toxicity one afternoon.

I guess people will be people. I will continue to report and ignore people I guess :)

SexualizeOatmeal4/24/2017, 3:44:58 PM1 votes

There are times that people will get punished, but it often takes multiple reports for it to happen. To be honest, I would say that its option "B".