Apologizing in league

OddAvenger80·8/18/2016, 8:10:19 PM·1 votes·484 views

This is kind of weird question but here's the scenario..

You're playing whatever it maybe ranked or normals 5v5 summoners rift (or whatever to be honest) you get a little carried away and flame your teammates you realize you didn't mean to do that and sincerely apologize, now here's the question. lets say they don't accept your apology and report you out of spite. Can you be punished for flaming and sincerely apologizing afterwards and not doing it again, and again this is a 1 time thing lets say it happens 1 out of every 100 games.

tl:dr: you apologise after flaming someone after you got carried away, is it still a bannable/mutable offence anymore.

5 Comments

Navarune8/18/2016, 8:51:48 PM1 votes

In my opinion, it could still warrant a chat ban if it were more common than your 1 in 100 scenario. But if it's only happening that often, then I wouldn't think there'd be any real concern about a ban... depending on the severity of the flaming in question.

They understand that people have bad days from time to time, and showing the maturity to actually apologize goes some distance in showing that you aren't a completely toxic person. However, if you go waaaay overboard in your harassment and then try to clean it up with a meek, "sorry," it's probably like putting sugar on a shit cake and thinking it'd still be edible.

Grithok8/18/2016, 8:56:05 PM1 votes

If you flame in the first ten, and apologize and don't do it again, I doubt rito will punish. Especially if it's a one game thing, reported or not.

On the other hand, if you flame hard enough that no one will forgive you? I've forgiven a number of players as long as they didn't get too cruel with it.

AdeBug8/18/2016, 9:45:40 PM1 votes

But then anyone could offend, say anything they want, start flaming etc and then take it back. As Riot would say, this can easily be taken advantage of. It's easy to say sorry without meaning it. "fu, nah jk" or "N or R word, nah soz". The harm is done, unless you do a tremendously amount of good after that to outweigh the bad, like be positive to others for 90% of the game or w/e that's left to be played. There are rules and you accepted them once you started playing. You're punished for not having self control or lack a certain level of education, and offending others because of it. The apologetic part can start with Riot.

I'm not saying I totally agree with the system, because I'm so used to shutting someone down verbally if I ever get attacked, or leaving the server or, as an owner, punishing the player if my warnings are ignored and it's a repeated offense. Yet in this game I cannot 'defend myself' or strike back if that happens. I literally have to eat it, endure til game end and report. But it's just my little rant why there aren't many servers to begin with, I have to play with a 70+ ping ALWAYS and we cannot host our own shit even with friends or darn bots.

BlueThingamajig8/18/2016, 11:12:14 PM1 votes

The situation you describe is why Riot looks for a pattern of negative behavior, rather than just a bad game. Sometimes shit happens and you fly off the rails for awhile. Riot recognizes that, even if sometimes the person you harass doesn't. Keep in mind though, you deserve a report for the game, and IMO it's arrogant to think they reported you from spite. That puts the blame on your teammate for not accepting the apology, rather than on you for creating a negative experience in the first place.

If you apologize, you acknowledge responsibility and consequence. It isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card

LordGeovanni8/19/2016, 5:03:33 AM1 votes

Don't flame don't get in trouble. Apologizing in the first place is 'ASKING' people to forgive you. They don't have to accept it and you still have to face what you've done. Only very stupid adults usually teachers or parents tell you that you have to accept an apology and stupid children taught that by stupid adults.