How punishments should work in league

Its Brody·5/1/2016, 3:58:12 AM·2 votes·812 views

Verbal Abuse: No chat ban just a notification or an emblem (similar to what people get for honors) on top of the charterer that warns you to mute them before hand Physically Abusive: (trolls, intent feeders) - 2 week ban then a permanent ban if it persists Afkers: from 0:00 - If at 5 minutes they dont reconnect everyone in the game gets a loss prevention except the afk player is queued with anyone in which he loses 20 lp (this is to stop teams from keeping a player from joining incase an invade goes wrong) After 5:00 But before 15:00 (for more then 5 minutes) loss of 5 lp of what what would have been won or lost teammates lose 5 less each after 15:00 (for more then 5 minutes) Loss of 1 lp per 2 minutes team each get 1/2 of what you lost up to -10 - + 15 (depending on if won or lost)

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TheSushian5/1/2016, 4:03:58 AM2 votes

The AFK issue is being addressed with the remake functionality -- eventually if someone attempts to afk from the get-go, they get punished. Afterwards, leaver buster takes whatever time they afk (that is, sitting still on a section of the map and not move from said section for a time of 3 minutes +) and makes note of that for a riot employee to look at and determine if they want to ban or not.

As for Verbal Abuse, definitely not going to happen. The moment you remark that a person is toxic via identification through badges or emblems, ultimately leave room for that person to either be targetting for harass, or for people to misconstrue the identity of the emblem for power a la attention whoring. As for the Physical abuse (how do you physically abuse someone through the internet... Cynist Opinion inserted): Riot already treats any form of extreme toxicity as bans, regardless of reformation or not.

Otherwise, what you highlighted, apart from LP loss as the remake system is addressing that, is what Riot already does. Save for the verbal abuse, although that gets treated on the same level of 'physical' abuse or unsportsmanlike conduct. If anything, unsportman fits the bill more than verbal abuse for what the player does,

Jamaree5/1/2016, 4:06:08 AM2 votes

So punish non toxic players because toxic players are choosing to be toxic. "Man, I really need this win, but this guy is apparently going to go out of his way to be toxic...damn it."

Athina5/1/2016, 4:15:02 AM2 votes

So much is wrong with this, but since chat based punishments are where I'm most experienced, I'll focus on that.

Chat restrictions are there for a reason. It's the first warning a player gets when they've been toxic in chat, and it slows down their ability to do it. Many players realize their mistake when they receive thus punishment and are never punished again.

Instead, you insist on removing this entirely and branding players for their behavior, which is easily one of the worst things you can do if you ever want players to show reform. Seeing a player with a label like this would immediately turn others against them, regardless of whether or not they are trying to fix their behavior. These players would never reform, since they will never be taken seriously again with a label like that.