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Sorry (self rant?)

EZ Viktory·2/1/2018, 12:00:34 AM·2 votes·366 views

This is more of me venting what's going on inside my head.

In a game, we had a Jhin who actually trolled. he said "kys" twice to me when i tried to give him advice, and he was using his ult aiming at nothing and just firing. Not even at the enemy. just activating it wherever and firing at nothing. Now I said something, and it is the only reason I got banned, and I'm positive (as there was only 1 game chat log in WHY I was banned. just a 14 day ban, my first EVER. I'm a pretty nice person and have only gotten like 2 10 game chat bans and 1 25 game.) But I said, and quote:

"Report this %%%got Jhin"

Now, what I say next isn't a plea to get unbanned, i'm accepting what I did and will "receive" my punishment as such. It's only 2 weeks, and I've already learned my lesson.

Anyways, he got punished. Not sure how as it doesn't say (most likely a ban) but I was soon banned as well. Whenever I say "%%%got" I don't mean it in the term of disowning (is that the right word? putting below you? whatever means that, haha) someone because they're gay. I'm fine with people no matter the sexuality, but whenever I say "%%%got" (and I NEVER say it to anyone besides my best friend of like... 4 years. We say it jokingly) but I guess at the time I "forgot" that it was such a harsh word, and got banned. Whoops...

Now anyways I want to say sorry. There's like a 0.1% chance of that one troll Jhin actually finding this post, but... I'm sorry, troll jhin. I'm sorry that I used that kind of word on you, and I shouldn't have. I should've just said "report jhin" or something, but I want you to know I don't mean it in a "putting someone below you because they're gay" way. I just say it as a way to joke with my friends, and in a sense, forgot that it was considered a really harsh word... so if someone this gets to that one troll, i'm sorry. Don't know why you trolled, don't know what you've been through, you may have be going through tough times in your life and trolling is the only way to vent frustration somehow. Not sure the circumstance, but we both learned something. I learned to remember words are harsh (even though you at the time really tried to pick me off for that. (Master plan of the century?) And well, you shouldn't troll. You might be satisfied. It was probably some smurf account, wouldn't doubt it. But still, I doubt this message meant anything to you, but sorry for what I did. I really am.

(Maybe riot should IP ban instead of an account ban. Honestly that would really be better so people that do this kind of stuff can't get people banned and go away unscathed and happy because it was a troll account and they don't lose anything)

6 Comments

Whisper872/1/2018, 12:15:33 AM1 votes

Props my man. Also, I agree about the IP ban thing. I mean I don't necessarily think that's the solution. But no one should ever walk away from a RIOT instilled punishment and feel unscathed.

TheProfezzor2/1/2018, 2:15:59 AM1 votes

2 things.

  1. No you shouldn’t have said, “report Jhin” anyway bc 1 report is the same as 5 reports, and that act is reportable in itself.

  2. Get rid of the word “%%%got” from your vocabulary. It’s not funny and If you actively use it with your friend there is the chance it will slip like it did now.

HavinABadTiem2/1/2018, 4:36:29 PM1 votes

Heh. Ban system doing the lords work, I guess. I wonder if that Jhin got reported/banned. Probably not, though.

You deserved every bit of what you got for calling to report someone. Stooping down to their level is immature and will likely result in you getting bludgeoned to death with their massive experience advantage. Especially when all it takes is one person to report you for saying a slur to incur a punishment.

Xaintrix2/1/2018, 5:09:54 PM1 votes

Riot already mentioned how IP bans didn't work, too easy to circumvent, and a lot of false positives got eaten up in the process. But hey it was a valid suggestion and tested.

But as it was said, one report is enough to get it into the system. The grand myth is that getting more people to support your case gives it any more weight. And to someone who doesn't know how the system works it's actually a fair assumption - Get more witnesses or popular opinion on your side.

It's a bit of a shame really. You don't want to scare off a new player by shoving a tutorial on how the report system works as in "Oh you're going to run into bad people guaranteed, here's how to deal with it." I think the lack of education on what actually happens and no setting of expectations on what feedback you do/do not get creates some more negative behavior too. Heck I didn't know about a fair bit of the process until i saw some of the official posts here.

Master Noct2/1/2018, 8:50:31 PM1 votes

The problem with this:

  1. It's always good to just report them for doing things they keep doing that aren't the most... "ideal" per say.
  2. That word is just... no.
  3. The problem with IP bans, is that IP's change every so often, thanks to Dynamic IP setups. So if you ban one IP, that IP might change within a couple weeks or months and invalidate, which is why Riot resorts to ID (Machine/Client-linked addresses) bans instead, so if you install League with a different account name, the ID will remain the same, and ban it as well, of course this has it's own workarounds, but less 'open' since not much people are willing to change computers or such to just get around ban, lol.

It still nice you apologized though, so it's good you acknowledged you made a mistake and such, and know how to deal with such things.