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Inactivity in chat should be bannable (maybe one warning, but still a very serious offense).

TheBossNinja·10/21/2018, 2:44:20 AM·2 votes·1,693 views

I called top lane and locked in as Jax with 5 seconds left to choose. Nobody had claimed top lane yet. When the game started, I went to top lane, but Heimerdinger followed me. Mid was wide open. He then proceeded to steal all my CS and one Champion kill (although this wasn't really his fault, it was his turrets' fault for that). I then told him to go mid, where he had been unanimously assigned by the 4 other players on the team, since he locked in without claiming. He never responded for the entire game. I ended up having to go mid against a Nocturne who had 5 minutes of a free lane because he stole top. although that's not my problem. It's the fact that he seemed to be able to play the game decently, but ignored everyone's requests to move as if he couldn't see the chat at all. Everyone has played with one of these players. These people are everywhere, and nobody seems to care about them. In my opinion, they should be IP banned for life, although my guess is that's a little too extreme. My point is that League is a team-based strategy game, and players who lack the required basic communication skills should not be allowed to play such a game.

My proposal is that any player who is inactive in chat be warned not to ever do that again, and then the next time that player is inactive in chat, the player will receive a temporary ban for maybe 4 hours. (Yes, this is more serious than Leaver Buster, and this is for a reason. Players who leave games usually don't want to leave, but a player who refuses to listen and communicate with teammates is much more of an annoyance for teammates than a disconnect.) For ranked games, instead of being a temporary ban, it would be a ban from ranked for the season, as Ranked should be reserved for only the players who know the game very well and want to prove it.

Let me know what you guys think about this, along with similar stories about players like this.

12 Comments

KVbqbFsC8e10/21/2018, 2:50:20 AM11 votes

In blind pick it doesn't matter what you "called". Anyone can go wherever they want, there aren't any rules.

Besides that, your proposal is absurd.

Jo0o10/21/2018, 2:54:44 AM7 votes

Using chat is optional, as is adhering to lane calls in blind pick.

Blind pick sucks. Get to level 30 and leave it behind ASAP. In Draft, lane assignments are enforceable.

The Ecdysiast10/21/2018, 2:49:41 AM4 votes

It's not a very serious offense.

And there are no rules about calling roles.

And no one cares, nor should anyone care, about calling roles any more when the important modes have roles assigned.

Nadiri10/21/2018, 3:39:45 AM1 votes

The way I win games is to mute everyone and disable /all chat

Shiftmys610/21/2018, 3:42:17 AM1 votes

this will install MORE toxcisity to the game, forcing people to talk to eachother, there are way to communicate with pings and stuff,

So I don't think this will work at all, I am sorry,

Terozu10/21/2018, 3:56:23 AM1 votes

If you want a specific lane go draft. Blind pick is a free for all metawise.

Vreivai10/21/2018, 5:08:21 AM1 votes

And what if there's no reason for me to use it? Or what if the rest of my team is spamming me with inane bullshit or insults and I mute all of them?

This would just further turn the IFS (or whatever system would apply these bans) further into a tool for trolls. You would now be forced to respond to them, and if you didn't, you'd get a ban. If you run into them, it's a lose-lose-lose situation. Respond, and you get chat restricted/banned by the IFS. Don't respond, and you get banned by this new system. Leave, and you get hit with Leaverbuster.

Agent Corgi10/21/2018, 5:50:19 AM1 votes

I don't use Voice Chat as much since my attention is on the game itself, not on what others are saying. Unless it has something to do with the match & it's important info (like "we need wards on Drag" or "They're doing Baron!"), I pay no attention to it.

Hjelp10/21/2018, 2:52:59 AM1 votes

That's absurd. I myself am normally inactive in chat because I talk to maybe 1 - 2 friends with VC.

Namîste10/21/2018, 3:18:20 AM1 votes

It's blind pick...it's free for all...nothing is assigned. Someone goes top and won't respond then either it's 2 top and open mid or you're going to have to go mid