Being toxic in chat should only be punishable by chat restrictions. Running it down lane, inting, or afking should be punishable by account suspension. There is a mute button for toxic people. There isn't a button to stop you from losing the game
Funnily enough, when chat restrictions were a thing and you could have infinite number of them, said toxic players just moved from being toxic, to trolling so that clearly isn't true.
Shooting at someone should only be punishable by having your gun taken away. There are bulletproof vests for shooters.
Being toxic in chat should only be punishable by chat restrictions.
Counterargument; being toxic in chat consistently should be punishable by bans at a certain point, because at some point, Riot has to put their foot down, and the toxic player needs to either play by the rules they agreed to, or stop playing altogether.
If you can't be bothered to play by the rules, Riot can't be bothered to have you playing at all.
There is a mute button for toxic people.
The mute feature is a short-term, band-aid solution; not a say-all, end-all, be-all. And more than that; the mute button does not change the rules you agreed to upon creating your account. The rules are "don't flame or be toxic in chat", not "don't flame or be toxic in chat unless the mute feature exists".
Running it down lane, inting, or afking should be punishable by account suspension.
Firstly, this is already the case, and secondly, as Jamaree mentioned, infinitely escalating Chat Restrictions used to be a thing, and only resulted in players under longer-duration chat restrictions resorting to trolling and intentionally feeding.
And, yeah, I already know the incoming counterargument; "so just ban them when they do feed". It's not that simple, as troll/feeder detection is still far from great, and on top of that, you are essentially welcoming an uptick of intentional feeders and trolls in exchange for more lax punishments on chat toxicity.
This has already been tried, and it didn't work.
