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A Guide to Not Getting Banned

FuzzyLumps·12/18/2017, 9:17:44 PM·7 votes·1,364 views

Let's all contribute to this list to make a good complete guide to not getting banned

  1. Type as little as possible: if you are at risk of demotion, chances are something negative might skip out. Try to type as little as possible, even if it's you trying to help.

  2. Use pings wisely: Be informative with what your next objective should be, where you're going, missing enemies, and when to back off. Do all this without spamming your pings. At most, three consecutive pings will do the job.

  3. Everyone makes mistakes: everyone whiffs an ult or skill shot, everyone has a bad flash, everyone gets caught out, etc. If you rage your teammate, they will not get better. If you just move on, they will probably learn from their mistakes and still have the confidence and level-headed attitude to get better. If they're repeat offenders and you want to Constructively help them, make sure you do it with tact. Before you say something, think about how you would react if you were them. If they take your criticism poorly, Don't Type Anymore. Leave it alone and let it die out.

  4. Everyone tilts: chances are, someone on your team is tilted. They might try to rage you. If you respond, you might be the one who gets reported. It doesn't matter if you were on defense, you were still wrong and reportable. So Use Your Mute Button. It's on the score board. Use it to save you from tilting, and potentially getting reported

  5. 1 report is as good as 9: It only takes 1 report from a single game to start the review of this person's reportable actions in this game. If you ask other people to report someone it is considered harassment. The number of reports a person received in a single game doesn't matter, it's the number of games the person gets reported in that matters. So report them silently. Otherwise, you could be reported for harassment.

  6. Focus on the positives: if you see a teammate make a good call or good play, give them a compliment. Positive comments will help you drop a punishment tier faster. Just remember to type less! Some examples: If a team fight goes well, tell your team good job. If someone's position was impeccable, tell them. Thank your support for shields and heals.

  7. Take a break: tilt can be from bad games and good games. If you're on a win streak, you may get too confident and start over extending and making mistakes. If you're on a losing streak, it probably won't get better because you will get tilted remembering your past mistakes and teammates. Either way, tensions will build from game to game so it may be best to take a break and reset after a few games. Otherwise you may be more inclined to rage when tensions are high or defeat comes your way.

I'll update the list as more suggestions come in.

TLDR Put yourself in their shoes before you say something to them. Type less, mute, don't spam pings, don't be a douche. Compliment your team, take breaks. Two wrongs don't make a right. Two wrongs make two bans.

23 Comments

HalcyonDweller12/19/2017, 1:36:58 AM4 votes

I agree, also I'd like to add that it helps a lot to ease a player's anxiety over their poor performance. And to build up their confidence for their good performance. For this I have two suggestions:

One - Instead of flaming after mis-plays, support them:

If a player mis-plays and something goes wrong, you can cut the tilt in the bud if you just say something like, "no worries mate, shit happens. We'll do better next time"

Players are much more able to focus and make smart plays if they aren't afraid to make a play at all out of fear of you harping on them the instant something goes wrong.

Two - Build their confidence after good plays:

Compliment them whenever a good play happens, bonus points if you identify what they did to bring about the good play.

By making them feel like you are watching them (in a good way) and ready to reward their good plays with compliments, they will feel more confident and may try harder to play well. They also will be less susceptible to tilt if something does go badly.

And by identifying for them what it was that they did to make the play go well, they will be more likely to learn from it and focus on doing that again. People are very goal oriented, if they die during a gank, but your team gets the kill... "great job farming under tower and keeping the lane frozen so we were able to gank" (or its future tense version if proposing a future strategy) or "good job baiting them out so we could kill them" is a lot more helpful and a lot easier to understand than "don't feed, scrublord noob"

MagicFlyingLlama12/18/2017, 9:33:04 PM2 votes

Don't type

Probably the worst advice i have ever seen on these boards, below "play pantheon support", since that actually works.

Modi12/19/2017, 1:20:51 AM1 votes
  1. ❌ I disagree with this one. While there are always limits, chatting is fine, as long as it isn't interfering with your playing and as long as it isn't harassing or being generally negative. Feel free to (politely) converse with your teammates and opponents.
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  5. ✔ "start the review of this person's reported actions" ⇨ "start a review of this person's reported actions in this game"
nerak2312/19/2017, 4:58:08 PM1 votes

Is this for people who has already been punished but not permanently?

If so, while I totally agree less typing in game is good advice. No typing at all doesn't show improvement.

A punished player only being neutral will take Much longer to drop a punishment tere. I would assume proper pinging and the use of the newer none chat options would do the same.

Getting in a habit of saying a legit gj or positive statement would help with less negativity being thrown at that player. I also know that might be a bit much for some players to begin with.

Fegone12/22/2017, 12:51:45 PM1 votes

It really only needs 1 advice:

"Don't type anything in chat that's not positive or constructive criticism."

If it's not helpful or nice, don't type it. Ever. There's no way you can get banned if you follow that rule (and ofc don't run it down mid or int or so, obviously).