To Ban or Mute

MadManApocalypse·Jun 24, 2016·1 votes·331 views

This is a question for the people of Rito.

When do you decide to mute a toxic person instead of banning them?

Why do you even ban toxic people instead of revoking their chat privileges permanently, we have a mute feature to use anyways if they're simply muted instead of banned it'll go a longer way in controlling their behavior. If you ban someone they simply create a new account and ruin the new players' experience, muting someone just doesn't let them annoy the shit out of anyone.

So in short. Why ban toxic people and not just mute? Should bans only go to people who AFK, Feed, or Grief?

3 Comments

Deep Terror NamiJun 24, 20161 votes

They used to keep giving chat restrictions to players that kept abusing chat, but many of them never stopped because chat restrictions didn't bother them and others just escalated their behavior because they didn't have the chat outlet. It simply didn't work out very well in the way of reforming or stopping their behavior.

RedTaoJun 24, 20161 votes

Blizzard's been full on muting their players and they've been doing just fine. They took care of what players did to vent when they couldn't speak, not do damage control for years on end from players who intentionally fed or went afk. The moment they took away the things that did the most damage to the team it became a very wholesome game.

Perhaps if Riot started fixing the things that players who "ruin" the game for others and made them less detrimental to your team, maybe people wouldn't care so much about what one person is doing.

AraMoOseJun 24, 20161 votes

Simply to add to what nami said, removing a player's ability to communicate with their team punishes the whole team for the past actions of one of their members. Added to which is the fact that if banning their chat was enough to get these people to behave decently in game, they would have started behaving decently.