Shouldn't wishing death on someone be a bannable offense?

GraceNovamon·Oct 29, 2016·3 votes·1,058 views

Heyo guys.

So, what the title says. Had an Ezreal in my game who started wishing death on our afk jungler ( he logged in for like 5 mins , kills happened in the meantime, so the remake option was gone.) and then just snapped at the rest of us for absolutely no reason , telling us we should die.

However, things got personal. As I did not care to try at all and missed a kill, he started the personal attack telling me that I should die and my parents also. I said to everyone to report him, they did and I got a pop up later on that he got a warning. That's nice and all but here we are talking about a 10/10 rage, wishing death on people and their families. And as a person who already lost her mom , it made me really upset to have a teammate like that , wishing death like it's candy.

Shouldn't it be a bannable offense? I seriously doubt that he will just stop with a single warning ,from flaming someone else like that in the future.

14 Comments

AeroWaffleOct 29, 20164 votes

It is, and I believe the system tells you that they've been punished by the system, not specifically a warning. It could be a 14-day ban or a perma.

GraceNovamonOct 29, 20161 votes

Oh thank you.

For some reason I remember that the pop up would specify if it was a warning or a ban. May be wrong though.

Thanks for your input.

GraceNovamonOct 29, 20161 votes

Just checked his history and he still plays games... So no ban at all. :/

AeroWaffleOct 29, 20161 votes

It happens. I believe ban escalations are done so through manual review. Unfortunately, the system isn't perfect and it's not going to assign the appropriate punishment to all players.

The punishment uses the ladder system more often than not. So if he behaves poorly again before they're in good standing, they'll receive a harsher punishment each time.

GraceNovamonOct 29, 20161 votes

Hm, I see how this goes.

Thanks for your response though.

Vormulac UnsleepOct 29, 20162 votes

Nope. Harmless words in a box. A bannable offense should be doing or not doing something that negatively affects the outcome of the game.

GraceNovamonOct 29, 20162 votes

How can you say that? Harmless? Wishing death on people is harmless? Are you for real.

Vormulac UnsleepOct 31, 20162 votes

Yeah. Im for real. Until the day that saying the words can make it happen, it's harmless. One button solution - mute.

ModPrandineOct 29, 20161 votes

It is. Stuff like that is grounds for an immediate escalation to a 2-week or permanent ban.

Dominick DestineOct 29, 20161 votes

If the tribunal would still exist, I would never vote to punish someone that wished death on some jackhole afker.

Never queue for ranked if you are going to choose to afk. The afker should be banned, not the person affected by their choice to afk.

GraceNovamonOct 29, 20162 votes

I agree that the afk should be banned as well. But wishing death regardless of the situation is just as wrong, especially to people who have nothing to do with that.

Dominick DestineOct 30, 20161 votes

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But wishing death regardless of the situation is just as wrong, especially to people who have nothing to do with that.

Nonsense.

"Naughty words" are irrelevant, you can put people on ignore if you dislike them, you cannot ignore the afker as the match is effectively ruined after that.

MagicFlyingLlamaOct 29, 20161 votes

It is harshly punished, alongside racism and other hate speech. This sort of thing is easy for the system to automatically detect, and it usually nets bans. Trash rarely learns that their behavior is unacceptable, sadly. He will get banned and just blame the system for being broken, anything to not have to accept it is entirely his fault. The good news is he lost his account, and if he comes back, will just get banned again.

OnlyYouCanHearMeOct 29, 20161 votes

I would agree with you that it is something that should be reported and punished in some fashion, though I don't know that I would go so far as to say an immediate ban. The normal escalation of chat restriction into temp ban seems like it could be sufficient, as if the person is consistently nasty, then they will show a pattern of this sort of behavior, and will end up banned and losing their account eventually. Whereas, if they are not typically nasty, and just having a really bad day, then the chat restriction is likely to keep them quiet until it blows over.