LeaverBuster in Botgames, or games you rejoin

Is it really necessary? For some reason, I had to close out of League and run the patcher again, immediately after starting up and diving into a game... I repeatedly got a 'Your game has crashed, check your internet connection' error until I ran the patcher a second time - when it patched, again.

After that, I managed to rejoin the botgame I got into, of course as a level 1 Sivir against level 13s and 14s at the time (we still won though, yay jungle Kindred and... how dumb the bots are), but I played it through to the end.

I get to the post-game lobby, and I've got the big, glaring, 'Hey boi, you done goofed, we gonna slap yo tail with the belt if you do that 'gain, ya hurr?' prompt.

That's dumb. I rejoined the game. On top of that, it was a bot-game. Why do I have to agree to be punished if, first off, something outside of my control made me unable to be there for 100% of the match, and second, I was in a bot-game, which could honestly be won as a 3v5 if the players are smart and don't just constantly think 'durrhurr its bots we can build AD Sona and roam the jungle all game and still win.'

My fiance got hit with the Leaverbuster prompt in another botgame, that was almost a full premade, because she had to step away to take our dogs outside lest they pee the floors. She explained what she was doing, which, yeah, I know, Leaverbuster doesn't know that everyone else was cool with a player going AFK for a few minutes, and once again, IT WAS IN A BOT GAME.

I really don't see punishing AFKers in Coop VS AI really doing anything beneficial to the community. Unless, like, it's in a Doombots game.

And besides that... the both of us, in our respective games, came back and finished it out to the end - albeit severely underleveled because we were sitting in fountain for so long and then had to reconnect because the game punted us out. Not cool, man. I'd be alright with a prompt saying 'Hey you should be aware that leaving a team-based game hurts four other players at the least and diminishes the experience for everyone engaged in the match, please try to make sure you won't have any other claims to your time when you are trying to play League!' or something of the sort.

But being threatened with account action for real life intervening, or for the patcher having a hiccup and not actually letting me patch properly? That's a bit ham-fisted. My fiance refuses to play anymore because she thinks its dumb to have to agree to being punished for daring to let our dogs take precedence over a game, so long as the Leaverbuster prompt appears whenever she logs in.

So yeah, this is long-winded. Sorry. I had no problem punching in the 'I agree' thing when I was prompted to because I'm fairly sure I'll be able to dedicate the necessary amount of time to let L.B.'s warning fall off my account over the next few games, or however it works. But I'm inclined to agree with Jen - we were playing in a comp stomp, and we rejoined to finish it out. Having to slog through the rest of the game at an exp and gold disadvantage is already bad enough, but to willingly agree to tie ourselves to the whipping post if something we can't ignore or prevent happens in the middle of a game again leaves a bad taste in our mouth.