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Whatever happened to chat restrictions?

Ezekiél·11/16/2017, 1:45:49 AM·5 votes·975 views
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Recently my account received a 14-day suspension for me saying some questionable things in game. To add some context, the game noted above wasn't going so well and my bot lane started to flame me and my duo (the jungler) for not doing so well. In an attempt to be funny, I said some pretty questionable things in order to lighten the mood for my duo and I. I can understand that this isn't acceptable behavior, but isn't this a bit much for a one game offense? Aside from saying those two things, I'm pretty sure my team would've still reported me and my duo just because we weren't doing well. Out of 4 years of playing league, I've seen some pretty toxic comments, some of which don't even get reported. I know that's no excuse for what I said, but I don't think it's fair that I get a 14-day suspension off the bat. Shouldn't I get a chat restriction first? I don't really think about what I say much, but I remember getting a notification telling me that everyone has bad days, which would prompt me to think about what I say. Where did that notification go to?

41 Comments

ModThe Djinn11/16/2017, 2:01:54 AM6 votes

Telling another player to kill themselves over something as silly as a video game is not really behavior conducive to building a courteous, sportsmanlike community.

It also violates one of Riot's zero tolerance policies, which means that earns an immediate 14 day ban.

Karunamon11/16/2017, 1:49:04 AM6 votes

Encouraging suicide is zero tolerance and will get you banned the first time it happens.

Xidphel11/16/2017, 6:05:17 AM5 votes

You skip over them when you encourage suicide.

forist11/16/2017, 1:48:55 AM5 votes

Agreed, way too harsh. I'm seeing a lot of threads like this recently and prepare for down-votes. You said the magic 3 letters that result in an instant 14 day ban according to riot, and people seem to be ok with that. Idk why.

edit: brigade instantly got me, this post went down from 4 up-votes back to 0 xD

Kei14311/16/2017, 1:58:11 AM3 votes

there is a zero tolerance policy for hate speech and encouraging others to harm themselves. Such action will skip punishment tiers, that's how serious Riot treats it.

14-day ban is a warning already. be glad it wasn't a permaban.

SpektrumLoL11/16/2017, 2:22:15 AM3 votes

RIOT discourages mean language use towards others. They extremely hate promoting suicide, or any curse set upon others. People get perma banned for saying mean stuff like that, 14 day is not that bad. Next time, just mute the annoying one because RIOT does not care about if you only did that one time or something, but anything that harms or ruins others emotions or game should be punished. You should have said something along the lines : flamming would not help the team and also make the game less enjoyable. I suggest you to work hard and everyone should try their best from now on, most importantly have fun! And if they continue to annoy, mute him and if he says anything that harms your feelings, send RIOT a report.

Śhunpo11/16/2017, 2:41:58 AM1 votes

You say that, however you probably would if given the chance to since the current game environment is pretty lenient on what can be said since most people don't even report you, and when they do it hardly even counts. Granted, I'm one of the few people that actually isn't toxic since I see no benefit to it. I'm just letting it be known that you can't play the innocent card without someone actually knowing you personally.

ModPeriscope11/16/2017, 2:01:53 AM1 votes

Why don't you just copy/paste your chat logs here.