Change in Punishment

Jayle27·4/2/2016, 5:28:54 PM·3 votes·774 views

Since there's so many people complaining about bans, I think another punishment to precede perma-bans would be great. imo I think it should be something like level reductions. First offense: 5 levels | Second offense: 15 levels | Third Offense: You go back to level one and have to get all the way back to 30 I personally think that this would be a great deterrent from being toxic and it would definitely get me to stop whatever I'm doing and fix my behavior.

P.S I have never gotten anything more than a leaverbuster so I'm just throwing out ideas to all you guys that get banned and rito so we can have a less acerbic community.

23 Comments

DrCyanide4/2/2016, 6:05:20 PM3 votes

While I do think there needs to be a punishment between 2-week ban and permaban (because no one takes the chat restrictions as a serious sign that they need to change), I disagree with taking levels away.

What's restricted by levels? Playing Ranked (making it a Ranked Ban, only hurting those who play Ranked), Masteries, and Summoner Spells. If you save a person's rank, then they're just on a vacation for ranked, and if you clear their rank you give lower elo players a shot at gaming the placement system. Clearing all the masteries would also be very annoying...

Reaper Review4/2/2016, 5:33:23 PM3 votes

Until you realize you're giving the more unsavory players an easy way to head on down and crush new players, so it doesn't actually change much from the current system besides letting people keep the content they've paid for.

I do think there needs to be a punishment before permanent ban that actually has some real weight behind it, but this definitely isn't the right way to go.

Reaper Review4/2/2016, 6:25:42 PM3 votes

I still think the old "Level 20 challenge", or a variant thereof, would make an effective punishment tier before a true permanent ban.

Basically, it would be an indefinite ban, but if you can prove reform by getting a new account to a certain level (with a certain percentage of PVP games so you're not cheating by playing bots the whole time, and possibly other rules), your main account is unbanned again. If you can't succeed at this, well then, it was still tier 4 and will still be a "permanent" ban anyway, while the players who DO have a chance at changing are shown exactly WHAT they need to do.

Essentially, an enforced "shape up or ship out" kind of thing.

Probably needs some ironing out, but I think it'd be a start, at least.

SmokedAlmonds4/2/2016, 6:06:38 PM2 votes

I am not convinced that the complaints of the punished are anything we should care about.

Bettnachleger4/2/2016, 5:31:23 PM1 votes

What is the benefit to reduce the levels instead of a ban? Can't see any.

Astôlfo4/3/2016, 12:20:21 AM1 votes

Or, we could just permanently ban them like we do now if they still can't change at that point. Which is a system that works perfectly fine. The ones complaining and their opinion on complaining about bans is worthless and meaningless.

FrankerX4/2/2016, 5:35:49 PM1 votes

why would you do that?

a ton of ppl would play aram and get matched with bots again (+ the mmr gets fucked even more)
banning them for 3 days then 14 days would be better i think. remove the 10 or 25 game chatrestrict and make it a 3 day bann.