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PSA: You can be punished for pre-game, post game, in game, or even a friend chat

SAiNT SEX·11/27/2018, 5:37:52 PM·2 votes·4,064 views

Title is what the riot support told me, probably something known by a lot of you but it came as a surprise to me because I'm not really toxic so I was pretty shocked when I got a 2 week. Long story short, was in five man que with IRL friends, I'm black, had disc muted, was on the phone, so typed in champ select. I typed the no no word and then we loaded into game. Popped off on AP Janna(nerf dark harvest lol) enemy team got tilted stated flaming, I started saying things like "gg ez and lol" when I would blow up their zed. Just some mild stuff but still got reported. Got suspended for two weeks shortly after because the bot picked up my no no word in pregame. I thought this was kinda lame so I went to riot support. They told me what was in the title and that context does not matter and that any further punishment will result in a perma ban due to the severity of their zero tolerance policy. I'm not too worried about losing my account since I don't use chat all that much. There really is no reason to use chat at all when the "Nice try" emote exists. I totally understand my punishment whether I agree with it or not. Just thought I'd inform as many people who like myself were ignorant of this. I don't know what words flag riots zero tolerance policy but don't risk it guys even in friend chat, it's not worth losing your account.

TL;DR: Be careful what you type nowhere is safe from blitzcrank bot

Edit: Screenshot https://imgur.com/a/9anfwhH

Edit2: Screenshot https://imgur.com/OedaJ2z

31 Comments

rujitra11/27/2018, 5:55:01 PM2 votes

You don't get punished unless someone reports you.

Namîste11/27/2018, 5:50:09 PM1 votes

There was a post before from someone trying to repost someone for what they said to them in a private message as they guy was wishing death on him and his family, threatening him etc all in a private chat. When he reporting him Riot said that anything said in private message was not reportable because it's meant to be "private" Unless they just changed that. that was the understanding of their stance on reporting private chats

Dr Dog11/27/2018, 5:50:28 PM1 votes

might wanna change the title, i thought you ment pms which i know you cant get banned for when you said friend chat

Hethalean11/27/2018, 5:48:18 PM1 votes

Hopefully everyone knew this already.

zoliking11/27/2018, 5:58:49 PM1 votes

Actually you can be toxic in the pre-game, but to do it you have to dodge so you can't be reported.

SonicAF11/27/2018, 10:31:49 PM1 votes

I really hope that it's an overly ambitious support specialist and not a policy change. Private messages should be private. Accepting "friends" to see their true face is fun.

Faneseeker11/27/2018, 11:18:10 PM1 votes

Very true, I'd like to add that a lot of times people will forgive you once the game is over. I think the majority of players understand that it can be stressful in games and some trash talking is well expected.

However, if you continue to harass in post-game chat. it is almost a sure way to get a report. One or two reports won't hurt but if it becomes a trend then a ban is probably not far away.

there is also no reason to talk much after the game, the game is over, winners and losers are announced, let it go and move on.