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Riot needs to Restructure the banning system

Strong Weed·10/27/2016, 12:13:51 AM·3 votes·823 views

Greetings fellow summoners, I want to take some time to address something that affects us all...The report and ban system.

Its already known to most people in the community that there are a lot of toxic people in League of Legends, and I am not sure about the actual statistics (not those BS stats Riot claims that are backed up with no evidence) id say at least 50% or more of all players on league can be considered toxic.

The system Riot uses now really has not been effective in dealing with these people, considering that some people get banned for small instances, and some players don't get punished at all. I think that the following example could increase the effectiveness of rooting out the most toxic players while also being fair to any person who is not toxic and just has had a bad game.

Removing the permanent ban and introducing escalating punishments This might seem controversial, because many people think that removing these toxic accounts from the game would be beneficial. While you may be correct, in most cases, the players don't really care and just set up new accounts where they will continue to be toxic. Relate this to real life, say for instance, if a teenager is caught by their parents with alcohol or drugs. The parent will probably have a talk with them at first and hope they understand. As you keep getting caught however, your punishment starts getting longer and harsher. Harsh penalties don't lead people to reform their behavior. People who are toxic enough to continue to get their account banned, will only be able to get into one, or two games before getting banned for a longer period of time. This will also make it easier for riot to monitor the more consistently toxic players. This also benefits the player, who just has a bad day, and messes up, we are all human and it happens. Those players can also not have to worry about getting perma banned for the slightest toxicity in a game.

14 Comments

AeroWaffle10/27/2016, 12:56:57 AM6 votes

It's extremely rare for a player to get perma-banned. Only a fraction of a fraction of players behave poorly enough to warrant that punishment.

Riot has already tried constantly increasing chat restrictions on players that misbehaved. It didn't work. Many people just continued to accrue longer restrictions for their poor behavior, essentially ignoring the punishment. Or they would just troll in other ways when they couldn't chat.

Perma-ban are much harder to ignore. It's not easy building up enough currency to buy the champs and runes you want, not to mention any work done on ranked score.

CrazyBear198710/27/2016, 2:31:28 AM1 votes

Although I agree with your opinion that Riot needs to Restructure the banning system

However, I don't agree with your reasoning or solution.

Giving more chances to those who abuse and break the summoners code is not beneficial for the majority of players who are NOT toxic.

Yes, you are right, they can just make a new account and/or troll to make lives worse for others.

but that because a hardware ban is needed more than just an account ban.

Ensure that the system they use(home/personal) is blocked out from opening or using the League Client. If they go to a cyber cafe, they can use the new account, but they are already paying a fee to use the account, which should be punishment enough.

***TL;DR: Giving more chance for Toxic players to Troll, be negative and unsportsmanlike, will only anger those who have to deal with them in game. 1<4 is not the way.

Kei14310/27/2016, 11:08:13 AM1 votes

there are 10 people in each game.

50% toxicity = 5 people raging at each other and 5 are quiet. IN EVERY GAME.

In truth, you'll see toxicity once every 10 games or so, and its just 1 person raging at one person playing bad.

Those ratios may be more at low level smurfing play, low bronze, low plat and low diamond. Majority of the games aren't as bad as you think.