chat restricted for saying "bronze 5"?

Surefire23·3/6/2018, 6:41:04 PM·2 votes·579 views

I was just hit with a 10 game chat restriction and honor penalty to level 1 because I responded to two people in my games hurling homophobic slurs and insults at each other and myself by calling them bronze/noobs. Really? What is the difference between "banter" or "competetive bs'ing" and calling someone bronze or a noob? Both of these terms and worse gets typed into live games being streamed on twitchtv everyday being watched by tens of thousands of players, and I have the twitch clips to prove it. Are those people getting chat restricted? No? Makes sense. I even got an instant feedback report saying that at least 1 of those 2 people who were flaming in my game got punished as well because I obviously reported them for constantly spamming profanity. I did not say a single word or acronym of an insulting nature other than calling them bronze and noobs. I know I was not in the right either by becoming involved in those toxic individual's argument, but is it really fair to punish me for simply calling someone a noob or an actual rank in the game that they are/have been? Is it bannable to call a diamond player a 'diamond 5' then? I don't expect the penalty to be reversed because I know you guys never do that, but can I at least receive clarification or a list of prohibited terms so that I can actually chat without getting banned? If I am going to get banned for calling a gold 5 player a 'gold 5', I may as well uninstall now and spend my time and money on a game where facts aren't considered insults.

14 Comments

Final Spark Lux3/6/2018, 6:49:30 PM6 votes

Can we see your chat logs? Everything other people said is irrelevant, all that matters is what you said. It's very unlikely that you got a chat restriction based off of that alone.

Colgate Gator3/6/2018, 8:00:54 PM4 votes

You need to stop harrassing your teammates, nobody wants to put up with that shit, so they reported you.

Surefire233/6/2018, 7:59:16 PM1 votes

I was being a bit passive-aggressive here or there, but that is actually all I said. Here is the chat log from that game. There was constant insult spamming at me between each of the things I said, so you can see my progressing frustration. Is the only way to play this game to just /muteall and pray communication isn't required in a team-based game?

Game 1 Surefire23: .... Surefire23: hate this elo Surefire23: cuz of blind kids who need pings Surefire23: ward Surefire23: lulu you are actual bronze Surefire23: bronze 5 Surefire23: bronze 5 lulu Surefire23: 0-7 Surefire23: ty for easy report Surefire23: rene if you want to win stop splitting Surefire23: group on these noobs or gg Surefire23: why are you noobs always off farming instead of grouping? Surefire23: just follow trist Surefire23: you have no other job Surefire23: any of you Surefire23: silver mentality Surefire23: sigh Surefire23: LAND A Q MORG Surefire23: waste ult and zhonyas Surefire23: miss all but point blank q Surefire23: great mid Surefire23: gj landing nothing the past 3 teamfights in a row Surefire23: great mid dmg Surefire23: all 0 youve done Surefire23: land a single q plz Surefire23: just one Surefire23: i want to see it Surefire23: ytouve landed 0 q's Surefire23: whats worse Surefire23: bronze 5 morg Surefire23: this lulu and morg both deserve to lose so idc Surefire23: nah you never grouped a single time in mid game rene Surefire23: dont give me that bs Surefire23: morg least dmg on team 100%

Surefire233/6/2018, 8:04:46 PM1 votes

postal badger you clearly only read the title and nothing of the post. thank you for trying

Primaquarius3/6/2018, 10:19:18 PM1 votes

Calling someone Bronze is basically an insult at this point, considering how many high tier players like to take the worst of that tier and, very successfully, paint it as the entire tier skill level