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Ive been thinking a bit about player banning system

Rhuxiie·4/24/2017, 1:44:00 PM·3 votes·1,529 views

So I have lot of friends that I know are not bad people, but in competitive enviroment, when things get heated, they once every few days turn into a really mean person :D. Some of them even piling up impressive permabanned acc numbers.

I dont think permabanning is a fair solution to verbal harassment and here is why.

I know people get lot of chances to reform, but in 2K17 where "being negative" is a legit report reason, its literally impossible for a bit more temperament players to not sooner or later get banned. Who doesnt get angry sometimes? Who doesnt say something negative sometimes?

I have an analogy for this.

So lets imagine a society where there are only 2 crimes, the lesser crime - lets say theft(verbal toxicity), and the bigger crime - lets say murder(Griefing, Using Hacks, Being toxic through gameplay). Murderers are notoriously hard to catch in this society, because its forensics concerning muderer catching are very unevolved. On the other hand, the society figured out a way to easily catch even thieves that stole a grain of salt from someone else.

Now, lets say that in this imaginary society, cutting off your hands (permamute punishment) completely removes your ability to steal, but does not remove your ability to murder. Death sentence (permanent ban) removes your ability to either steal or murder. Also if a person steals from you once, you can forever tag them to be never able to steal from you again in this imaginary world (mute button).

Riot is saying that because murderers are notoriously hard to catch, its fair to punish thieves with the death sentence.

How does that make any fucking sense at all? Why overkill because of mine incompetence to punish people that do the worse crime? How did riot manage to convince the massess that this is somehow fair and just?

I didnt mean to offend anyone, if I did Im sorry :D

Also, yes, I just got my first chat restriction in 4 years for saying "stfu alrdy plz" and calling someone dumb.

63 Comments

EvilDustMan4/24/2017, 1:49:11 PM13 votes

Think of it this way.

You are in a room. And you are trying to play a game where you have to concentrate for 40 minutes. No bathroom breaks, no food breaks, solid 40 minutes.

Now, someone puts a yappy dog in the room. Not just a yappy dog, but a shrill high pitched dog that only yaps when you make a mistake or the rest of the team is behind. Now, you can mute the yappy dog, but you will eventually ask the question 'why can't they just not put a yappy dog in the room at all'.

That is the punishment system. No one wants to play with tiny annoying yappy dogs.

PS yapping back at the dog only makes it yap louder.

ImAHeroForFun4/24/2017, 2:02:50 PM6 votes

I've been playing the since the end of beta... and have never once been banned or chat restricted or given any kind of punishment for in-game behavior... sometimes i get angry and argue in game... and I've probably been reasonably reported a few times... but i am capable of controlling my emotions or just refraining from typing at all... And if I am SO angry or frustrated that i just cant help myself ill take a break from that game or the computer for a while and listen to some music till i feel better. in the end there is no excuse for ruining the game for the other players just because you have the emotional control of a 12 year old. There is a 0 tolerance policy because you ruin the game for 9 other people when you rage and throw a fit like a baby.

Anastaecia4/24/2017, 2:11:13 PM4 votes

Wrong. You know the rules. Follow them. Rather simple. If you can't control yourself, unbind the chat button.

Ellis D6/18/2017, 8:44:23 PM1 votes

"How did riot manage to convince the massess that this is somehow fair and just?"

people are dumb as shit.