I don't get paired with honorable players, so I can't be honorable.
I hate your system, Riot. I hate it and everything it stands for. The entire game would be better off without an Honor system, because I get treated like crap either way.
When you first launched Honor, I quickly got Friendly, then Mentor and then Leader. But then eventually I got mad at someone who trash-talked me, and that was the end of it all.
People call me racial slurs and I get mad too. You have created a culture where people vomit their failures and frustrations over everyone else, and it only leads to more of the same. You have so many bad examples that you have no way to control it.
Everytime I think it's okay to start communicating again, your community shows me that I'm wrong. This is why I quit sometimes. Your game is fun to play.
But your community is UTTER TRASH.
And by cursing people who communicate on this level as "Dishonorable" you just frustrate people and promote the problem. This doesn't fix anything. The 40% of people who don't actually care about the game, earn Honor rewards. Anyone who pays attention to the chat eventually loses their temper and gets stuck in the Prisoner's Island of locked honor.
You don't believe me? ... Then why don't most of your players have Honor markings on their banners? They're so rare.
Without the Honor system, at least I wouldn't feel like crap also. I don't get keys and I get ridiculed by the system for losing my temper. Your structure of account bans and stuff clearly doesn't work at all, people just make a new account and start over. If anything, this adds to the problem as Yet More Smurfs end up in low ELO games, adding frustration and ruining the play balance.
How many times do I need to be told to kill myself, called awful names, or just plain yelled at, before I'm allowed to be angry too? It's human nature to get upset when someone is upset at you, and this game beats it into you like a drum. The worse you play, the more likely you will draw the frustrations of whoever else is losing, or anyone who feels like you're going to cost them a win.
And at what point is this communication bad? Is telling someone, repeatedly and loudly that they are playing badly, too negative? What about complaining that you're definitely going to lose?
Why is this type of behavior classed exactly the same as encouraging suicide and calling people homophobic slurs?
I'll say it a third time. Your system doesn't work and I hate it. It's the reason why I quit every now and then. You issue a chat ban because I got angry - at a team that was angry at me. If you keep playing, you'll eventually be the butt of a game. And when that happens, you had better pray the people who lose are angels, because if not, they'll draw you into the exact same type of behavior yourself.
You know, it's very telling that when you show people the chats that led to their restriction, you don't show the chat comments of the other players. Without the context of 4 other players raging at me, it's hard to even tell why I was moderated. In fact, if you look at my last three games, I mostly talked about specific plays - but each chat had 1 or 2 curse words in it.
Is that all it takes to get chat restrictions?
Cursing a single time?
Over and over I get to Honor 1, and then immediately go back to 0. I get to Honor 1, decide to start talking, and voila - the game puts me at 0 because I cursed once or a team drew me into complaining about someone. Usually, someone complaining at me first.