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Road to Reform

Xavo13·12/14/2018, 10:39:09 PM·2 votes·2,959 views

Hey everyone, a wonderful Riot employee by the name of Void Wish suggested that I come to the boards with my ideas so here I am. As a player I have been permanently banned four times on four separate accounts. Don't let that affect my credibility this isn't a bad mouth Riot or the system post. I have since unbound my enter key and moved chat completely off my screen (#reformed).

 In all seriousness I have a proposal that I want to get the community/other rioters opinion on. I'm sure this has been suggested in some way, shape, or form before; however, I feel like this would be a great addition the system already in place.

 Obviously it sucks when you get banned for one game that made you tilt just a bit more than usual. Whether it was the 0/28 botlane, yes that happened to me and I did not handle it well (Chat restriction), or the jungler who can't help but negatively affect each lane inadvertently through mishaps.

 My idea is this, Riot should add to the system a way of instantly verifying that players are taking steps to reform. Whether it be verifying through checking settings, such as the chat box being off the screen, or simply proving you have the program that allows you to unbind the enter key. 

 At the very least, I feel like players should be open about other accounts they have as well. What I mean by that is as follows: Say I was to be banned for two weeks, but I have another account to play on. A request could be sent in to Riot to monitor their reform progress, and have checkpoints throughout the process that mitigates the initial ban on the other account. 

 Obviously I'm not on the Riot team myself and don't know what the checkpoints would be or how one would qualify for the process or not. These are my ideas though, and I hope that you guys like them. Any creative suggestions to further along this idea would be appreciated.

Cheers, Xavo13

5 Comments

ooNerOoo12/14/2018, 10:43:03 PM2 votes

Idk. People have ideas similar like this in the past, but riot just turned a blind eye. Personally, I think this is a pretty decent idea, as I myself, have removed chat entirely and have about 8 permabanned accounts.

Reforming is one of the hardest things to do in this game imo. Climbing is easy, but learning to not be toxic is so hard for me.

Mad Loony12/14/2018, 10:45:58 PM2 votes

good luck

ChaosReyn12/15/2018, 4:49:40 PM1 votes

My main was perma'd last season, after being live from the 1st season in. I took it hard. But I can't say I didn't earn the perma any more than I can say I regret what caused it.

People tilt. It happens. People tilt a lot faster when there's 2-4 other people trying to tell them that they're the reason that the game is lost before 10 minutes has even passed, and you have better game stats than the majority of them.

What needs to happen is that riot needs to take permabans more seriously when they're dishing them out. Currently, I'm decently sure that, even though the 14-day and permabans are definitely manual, the people who issue them go based off of how many times their bots have pinged you and made action (which can be negatively influenced by other factors, such as multi-queued groups just stacking reports on you because you're the guy who isn't in their squad), and by certain keywords, particularly swearing.

As I said: tilt happens, and it happens a lot faster when provoked. These guys aren't looking through the entire gameplay text when they issue your ban, they're stopping at the first time you drop that f-bomb, and the context rarely matters. "f- off, muted" is just as bad to them as an all out nuclear meltdown in chat. That f-bomb is all they need to see to think "yep, he's negative, banhammer him."

There's not really a sense of empathy and context to it, just "ope, f-bomb, hit em and go." even if that f-bomb was "f - -k, I didn't see their whole team was there." in a game where your team decides they want to report you for inting when in reality you just got caught out too much.

I'll be the first to admit that I earned my own perma: my best defense to a team full of people blaming me for losing a game pre-10m at that point was ripping them a new one and hoping they go down with me if I got a punishment. But that is certainly not always the case.