Ban baiting? Did a human make this decision?

lntentFeed·8/25/2018, 1:19:48 AM·1 votes·1,286 views

So, the other day I'm playing a ranked game. I'm top and I notice that enemy MF is 3/0 and about 2 minutes. I ask the bot lane if they want to switch about a minute later because the CS is something like 20-50 and our Rakan and Xayah are literally just standing under the tower as MF free farms and damages tower. The Xayah and Rakan say thing like "nope; we're good" and "everything is going according to plan," which immediately makes me worried they are trolling/inting. Eventually, top becomes a full 2 v 1 lane (no point in the enemy jungler paying attention to bot lane at this point) and I lose my tower. Less than a minute later, enemy MF takes bot tower. Xayah or Rakan then makes some sarcastic comment about how I lost the first tower. One of them says there is nothing they could do about the loss and sometimes it just happens and "it's just a game." I admittedly am annoyed at this point because I feel that there was something that could have been done, but for whatever reason (trolling, stubbornness, etc.), they chose not to switch lanes or change things up. At this point, I'm very annoyed at the responses (which, in retrospect, I think were calculated to troll me, but I didn't see it at that point), so in all caps, I address things they were saying (blaming me for losing first tower, the MF is too good, bad luck, lag, it's a team loss, etc.), and say that changing things earlier would have made a difference, that this is not a team loss, but their fault. They eventually (once again, very calculated) start to say "never give up" and "we can do it" all while spamming mastery emotes next to teammates that are dying and they could have helped. It goes back and forth with them blaming me for the loss and me blaming them (all the while, I am still trying my best, though I want to FF). Eventually, Xayah had a "decent" (doesn't seem like inting) score of 5/6, but it was after allowing MF to have double her CS, snowball other lanes, and have a massive gold lead (at around 8 mins, MF had more gold than our entire team). I now have a 14 day suspension. This is the only game in my chat log. Is this automated? Did an actual human watch this game and think this was warranted? Here is the log (keep in mind that it does not show the two trolls allowing enemy mf to farm and take towers, get free kills, spamming mastery emotes while allowing enemies to take objectives/kills, instigating/flaming of their own.

History: https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2852055296/246099293?tab=overview

Game 1 In-Game lntentFeed: is pantheon a viable jg? lntentFeed: is nunu a viable jungler? lntentFeed: i was wondering lntentFeed: they should give him a q that does massive true dmg to monsters and heals lntentFeed: so he can outjungle pantheon lntentFeed: ..... lntentFeed: u guys wanna top lntentFeed: yes lntentFeed: plz switch? lntentFeed: but you couldve switcheded lanes and let us win lntentFeed: but now youre giving free cs lntentFeed: \IT WOULD HAVE lntentFeed: BUT NOW YOU MADE THE GAME IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN lntentFeed: YOU MADE IT THIS WAY lntentFeed: YOU TWO ALONE lntentFeed: ruined the game for 3 teammates and tbh 5 opponents who didnt want to do a 7 v 3 lntentFeed: cuz now top can just 2 v 1 lntentFeed: because pantheon and kennen are duo top lntentFeed: bc mf can win bot lane solo lntentFeed: because 1/7 is worse than 0/3 lntentFeed: w/e there are some guaranteed losses in this game lntentFeed: this is one lntentFeed: im ready for the next one lntentFeed: yes it is lntentFeed: we cant afford anything lntentFeed: not 5 kills lntentFeed: im down 60 cs bc my lane was pantheon and kennen vs garen lntentFeed: bc you guys are selfish trash who dont think about how your early inting snowbal;ls all the lanes lntentFeed: i cant even stand under tower with mf now lntentFeed: yes oyu did lntentFeed: i gave you a choice when she was 3/0 and i wasahead of kennen in cs lntentFeed: and you chose to make us lose lntentFeed: i am not flaming lntentFeed: i am explaining lntentFeed: waiting til you guys end lntentFeed: our bot lane admitted they were losing on purpose lntentFeed: 7/1 mf lntentFeed: they said when mf was 0/3 not to help that they would just afk under tower and xaya would ks to get a decent score lntentFeed: 3/0* lntentFeed: they are the only 2 voting no

I'm also curious of what the community thinks about punishment given the chat log/situation (see poll below). I know that I probably shouldve muted and just played as if I had two intro bots on my team in the bot lane, but a certain level of chat/trying to coordinate/frustration has to be allowed. I did not use profanity, I wasn't even harassing them based on just bad plays--most of what I said was in response to what they were saying.

9 Comments

Icy Hot Shoto8/25/2018, 1:25:41 AM8 votes

Not ban baiting, but you giving a troll, or trolls in this case, what they wanted. Your attention.

Ban baiting is forcing players to say something such as hate speech, trolling is what your bot lane was doing.

I'm going to have to assume you recently had a 25 game chat restriction, as this log isn't bad enough to be a ban on its own without prior punishments.

SugeMinPikk8/25/2018, 2:07:49 AM3 votes

If you even think for a second that riot has thousands of people individually reviewing hundreds of thousands of reports a day, then you're... . . . . . . silly

Kareshi8/25/2018, 1:56:19 AM1 votes

Wow you actually played into their trap card gg.

You should know by now that people will bait you into using chat more, just so they can report you. the key is to use the mute button and not reply.

next time be aware of that, it doesnt matter what the context is, if you use the chat and type , chances are you type alot, and that amount is enough to get you a ban, simple as that

gg