Chat restriction. At what point can we consider flaming entrapment?
I was highly disappointed to be chat restricted, my first "punishment" since League was released. In reviewing the log, I didn't say anything that bad. I had a duo queue from the clan "Ranked Trollz" who played bot. The Varus was support - and built support - and the Viegar took the farm. They fed (combined 2-14 when the game ended). I had a Swain top, who admitted in lobby "I want to try out the rework." He also fed. Finally I had a jungler who mostly stayed in the jungle, but when he did come out it would be to dive towers at level 1 or steal dragon, dying every time and raging at me and other teammates for not helping.
Did I call out the self-proclaimed "Trolls" clan for trolling? Yes. I didn't swear, I didn't use any language that I would be ashamed to read out loud in front of family. I asked people to stop feeding. I asked Varus to build damage items. When the enemy team asked if the feeding "Trollz" lane were inting, I said yes in allchat.
Why are we punishing for making accurate observations? If I choose to jungle with Blitzcrank and my team tells me not to, can I report them for being negative and expect punishment? Evidently.
10 game restriction, I honestly don't care about the punishment. I just think it's a joke that the automated system flagged a couple of trolls who ganged up to report me. I miss the Tribunal, as no human being would have voted to punish me if you actually read the logs.
To add color, here is the chatlog. I wish it showed the people I was responding to, the Kayn cussing me out, etc. I did add some context in parentheses, and swapped pronouns to make it clear what was being discussed. Feels like if I can be punished for this, I can be punished for anything.
> 5 Dollar Holler: sure > 5 Dollar Holler: kayn i think its gunna be u and me this game carrying > 5 Dollar Holler: kayn can you help the lanes a bit more with pressure? > 5 Dollar Holler: if you jungle all match shyv is going to destroy us > 5 Dollar Holler: dont focus top > > (Kayn raging at me for him diving in to “steal dragon” and die while I stayed in lane to kill Corki) > > 5 Dollar Holler: last thing you said was "blue then mid" next thing i knew you tried to solo a fed shyv > 5 Dollar Holler: i cant solo her either, are you high? > 5 Dollar Holler: lmao > 5 Dollar Holler: i cant carry unless the feeding slows way down > > (Our team realizing that in a duo queue of a clan called “Ranked Trollz”, the Varus was building 100% support and Viegar taking all the cs) > > 5 Dollar Holler: wait, why is varus building support? Can you build dps? > 5 Dollar Holler: just a troll match? > > (Teammates talking about who won and who lost lane) > > 5 Dollar Holler: i destroyed corki > 5 Dollar Holler: i cant control that you are trying to solo shyv. she was ganking, you just stayed in jungle too long I think. > 5 Dollar Holler: we can just vote to ff… > 5 Dollar Holler: better question: why is our Varus supporting > > (Opponents asking if our bot was trying to feed or not) > > 5 Dollar Holler: i mean their clan is "Ranked Trollz" so please reprot the support varus duo queue, just int > 5 Dollar Holler: i see a 2-11 griefing botlane > > (Fed jungler talking in allchat about how he’s so good and we should have banned that champ because look at the score) > > 5 Dollar Holler: seems low considering both bot are int > 5 Dollar Holler: we should have banned Shyv because she's strong against intentional feeders? > 5 Dollar Holler: like, we have support varus, you could have jungled with Bard and won probably lol > > (Opponents saying “sorry about the trolls on the team I had one on my team last game”) > > 5 Dollar Holler: yeah it evens out i think > 5 Dollar Holler: just have to report and move on
EDIT: I want to point out this article from Riot where "strong but non-derogatory terms" are listed under acceptable: https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752884-Reporting-a-Player
Also, I was just in a game where a teammate was literally saying the N-word in all chat. I reported him for hate speech. No action. Is the system not smart enough to automatically search for words like that when reported? Hmm.