Racism

Rain of Oblivion·Sep 1, 2016·8 votes·1,452 views

So, I'm playing ARAM for fun with some friends. I type in all chat something along the lines of "brb cat got launch codes again" with the intention of giving the other team a laugh. It is ARAM after all. The Janna on the other team responds with a racial slur towards me right off the bat. I ignore it and the game goes on. We lose and the Janna types "ez game". We were 4v5 due to an AFK and I let her know that we were down one person from the start. She responds with "dont make excuses you black (n-word)". Me and my friends reported her and we have yet to receive any word of her being banned. It's been about 24 hours, but I'm of the opinion that that kind of language and behavior has no place in League of Legends. This person is still out there potentially slinging racial slurs on a whim and creating a toxic environment.

27 Comments

Sythriel DrakenSep 1, 20162 votes

Riot's punishment system at work everyone! Where you can go one game of calling someone a Black N word F word and riot laughs at you.. but go two games in a row saying curse words at intentional feeders and riot punishes that real fast!

ModWulf HelhammerSep 1, 20164 votes

You understand nothing.

ModWulf HelhammerSep 1, 20162 votes

The way the notifications work is that you only get one when your report was the final straw, which doesn't happen all too often (for example, if the person immediately moved on to play another match, and was reported in that one, one of those people may have gotten it).

Racial slurs are not accepted at all. People using them can result in skipping punishment teirs to either straight to a 14 day ban, or if the offense is severe enough, even permaban

Rain of OblivionSep 1, 20162 votes

I was not aware of how the notifications worked. Thanks for that insight! Makes me feel better now that hopefully the huge number of people I've reported have gotten what was coming to them with in game punishments. Muahahah erhm I mean...cool.

MinaZer0Sep 1, 20161 votes

Next time screenshot it and post it up here, would be funny to see them publicized and maybe the issue will be taken more seriously, also if you have screenshots, you can report it directly to the support page, I've done it multiple times and got at least 7 people banned for being overly toxic, they email you and tell you the progress of the investigation.(subjective, but one thing riot does not stand for is racism, they ban hammer like crazy over that stuff) and I find it fun to purge league of toxic people, even though I know its a redundant task, its still satisfying.

summoner 14 item 3151 Toxic Players

Rain of OblivionSep 1, 20161 votes

I wasn't sure if including a screenshot with their IGN was frowned upon, so I didn't do it. Oh well. For sure next time!

MinaZer0Sep 1, 20161 votes

Frowned upon? they can change their summoner name, but riot can track when they changed it and from and to what they changed it so they will still face concequences, its different in irl because you cant just readily change your face, thats why social experiment videos censor faces so they can keep honor (even though they obviously dont have honor, if saying/doing these ignorant things) for their personal life, and also legal issues, video games dont have that same right.

Rain of OblivionSep 1, 20161 votes

Yeah I had read the rules about Naming and Shaming and didn't want to be reported for exposing the guys name. Maybe I'll include a screenshot next time and cover part or all of the name.

EmittingXsSep 1, 20162 votes

Naming and Shaming isn't right. You'll be reprimanded for it not only by the community but by Riot as well. Nothing good will come from it so don't do it. I can't believe someone would actually tell you to do that.

LadayenSep 1, 20161 votes

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I wasn't sure if including a screenshot with their IGN was frowned upon, so I didn't do it. Oh well. For sure next time!

It is. You reported it at that end of the game. TIme to move on and forget about it.

EmittingXsSep 1, 20161 votes

i believe that reports are taken from things said in game and not before a match starts or the results screen. if someone says something in the results screen the best you can do is screen shot it and send Riot a ticket. a case such as yours would be a pretty severe problem so hopefully Riot would follow through accordingly.

at this point, if the Janna didn't say anything too ban worthy in game, she'll be fine. nothing will happen to her. just know that for the future, you do have power even past the report button if someone does say something mean to you.

at the end of the day, i just wish more could be done about such negative behaviors in this game. i just had a game where two people were attacking my friend and i promptly reported them afterwards. hopefully something happens but i won't hold my breathe. Riot seems to have too much going on to spend any time on anything else.

Rain of OblivionSep 1, 20161 votes

How do I report someone via the Riot Support page? I'm looking around but can't find anything. :/

ModWulf HelhammerSep 1, 20161 votes

Post and pre-game chat logs are recorded, but aren't included regularly. If you are reporting someone for an offense in one of those, make sure to note it in the dialog box

EmittingXsSep 1, 20161 votes

Last time I did it, i took it through their "Gameplay and Features" tab. At the bottom there's an option to "Submit a Request" and I went through those steps. It's always crucial that you put in as much detail as you can. It's not a matter of "they made me feel bad" or "i'm hurt", you have to really say why the person was at fault and how their behavior affected the game and or your teammates.

StarTorchedSep 2, 20161 votes

Actually, Riot does have the champ select and post game chats. It's just usually the system doesn't see it. However, if you write in your report that the slurrs came in post game chat, Riot could go back and manually review and choose to ban it.

And it seems like not enough people know this, but only the last person to report the player gets the notification, so someone you reported might have gotten banned, but you just don't know it.

ItankyouSep 1, 20161 votes

Riot punishes racists, you may not have 'last hit' them or your reports may be low in priority due to you reporting everyone for anything (i.e. I was afk in lane for tieing my shoe and you respond LUL U TOXIC AF).

This is why I only report people for racism/homophobia/misogyny and I ban them all on my first try EVERY time.

Hope this helps.

Rain of OblivionSep 1, 20161 votes

Makes a lot of sense. I do frequently use the report button, but only in cases that it's appropriate. Thank you for your input though. I will keep that all in mind. :)

ItankyouSep 1, 20161 votes

Ya, what is appropriate seems to differ from individual to individual. This is why I only ban for 2 reasons, the extreme toxicity I mentioned and then there are the individuals trying to game riot's banning system by pretending to be sportsmanlike and continuing to feed sarcastically. I hate this game.

WhyAreWeEvenFreindzSep 1, 20161 votes

Have you tried not being a PoS boosted animal?

MinaZer0Sep 1, 20161 votes

summoner 14 I can see why you are questioning your friendship when you can't even spell friends correctly

get this man/woman(because I don't discriminate) a burn heal. summoner 14 summoner 7

WhyAreWeEvenFreindzSep 2, 20161 votes

He spelt that wrong... what a fking tool!

iHeim Sep 1, 20161 votes

Jewish people tend to be more careful with their money because they want to save for retirement

BloodyTomponSep 1, 20162 votes

What?

Desolas ArteriusSep 1, 20161 votes

As someone already mentioned: You will not get a notification if your report was successful. You will only get a notice if your report was the final report to get them banned, restricted, etc.

So it's not that racial slurs are accepted or not reportable, it's just you haven't had your report be the final straw to get that player punished. Either could have been a new account being toxic, or midway point of being punished. You'll never know, but do know that your report does matter.

They could have already been punished by now, who knows, but don't let not getting a notification discourage you from reporting truly deserving people.

Hope that helps and good luck :)

stealthfox94Sep 1, 20161 votes

The only time I got a confirmation that someone I reported got banned was when a Leona on our team was being racist towards Mexicans.

BLMfk12Sep 5, 20161 votes

I literally came across an account named "Spic Murderer" thats still up and running. At first I thought no one had reported them, but now after I reported them they are still playing like nothing happened. Ridiculous.

If Spic Murderer is not enough to qualify for Offensive Name then why include that option to report offensive names?

I just started playing a week ago. I found this board cause I was wondering how racist this game is after that. Its not looking good.