Is hate speech an insta ban?

Lunar Cookie·11/3/2016, 1:31:32 AM·2 votes·1,234 views

I've rarely seen true hate speech. Sometimes I'll catch someone saying something racist because they're trolls, but generally in the "I think I'm funnier than I am" way that sometimes happen in public and never directly attacking a player. More like "aren't I cool, because I'm using racism ironically"

Today, I played a game. Adc, Sup and Top were apparently randos who joined a call together together to play better and help. It did not. Bot told us to camp top and would tell us where they were because they claimed top was being toxic. They then commented "I mean, they said "hang on, got a call from my boyfriend" and they're a guy. I laughed so hard I couldn't play" and continued to all chat harass and insult this player. If this is how they treated them in all, I can't imagine what the poor top player sat through while on call.

I have never been more disgusted. After game, when I pointed out that top said nothing all game to us and they spent the game being homophobic and toxic, so I wasn't reporting them, it became "are you retarded. that wasn't homophobic. Oh, let me guess, you're a feminist and that's why you're all triggered."

I have never seen actual hate speech and I'm wondering. Please, is that kinda hate speech bs an instant ban?

5 Comments

4lbDIK11/3/2016, 1:48:58 AM2 votes

Except hate speech isn't real. Just censorship. But yea it's Riot's game so if they want to define obnoxious language as "hate speech" I guess they can.

OnlyYouCanHearMe11/3/2016, 1:35:30 AM1 votes

It can be, yes. Riot has a very strict policy with regards to any form of hate-speech, and threads pop up here all of time where people are asking why they suddenly ended up banned. If they don't have a prior punishment, 9 times out of 10, its because there was blatant hate speech in there.

Edit... usually, there's a bit of harsher language involved. fa@@ot, or something along those lines.

EvilDustMan11/3/2016, 1:38:31 AM1 votes

From what I've seen, and this isn't going to be the truth, just from my memory of posts:

A little bit of hate speech will get you a punishment.

A quite a bit of hate speech can jump you up a punishment level to 14 ban or even perma ban.

Great Muta11/3/2016, 3:23:49 AM1 votes

Nope, no more so than anything else from what I've see.