Is it fair that calling someone an idiot is instantly a chat restriction and honor ruined?
That on it's own usually isn't enough to warrant a full punishment, especially if it's one off-hand comment like that.
Even if you did lose Honor because of that, it's because you're still harassing and insulting others which is precisely what Riot doesn't want you to do.
Is it fair that a person can leave 50 games in a row and still retain his honor lvl 5, and never get even a 2 week ban?
** Riot Tantrum has said that repeatedly leaving games can result in a permanent ban.**
That being said, I do personally think AFK punishments are nowhere near as severe as they should be. Leaving a game (especially when there's proof of them doing it deliberately) should be punished much more harshly than a Leaverbuster.
Is it fair that you can intentionally feed while writing "sry guys doing my best" and have no repercussions at all?
Intentionally feeding =/= underperforming.
Going 0/10 but trying your best is not intentionally feeding and is not/should not be punishable.
Going 0/10 or more while walking into the enemy team with no effort to survive, escape, or attack is punishable because that is intentionally feeding.
Can anyone actually claim that one person calling another person an idiot has more impact on the game than a guy rage quitting on 0-1? Can anyone actually claim that one person calling another person an idiot has more impact on the game than an ad carry going mid to die 5 times in a row?
It's not a competition. Yes, leaving a game is bad but insulting your teammates is also bad. Neither should be allowed just because one might be "less impactful" than another.
The only crime actually punished is flaming, resulting in a perma ban if you're a hardcore flamer, but what's funny tho is it's the only crime you can actually prevent (Mute button).
Intentionally feeding is punished. It's not consistently punished because it's not always readily apparent, there are ways to mask feeding/griefing that make it hard for an automated system to detect. But eventually and more often than not, intentional feeders are punished.
Riot has stated multiple times that a mute button is not justification for breaking the rules. Just because you can functionally ignore what someone is saying doesn't mean they aren't still saying it.
When a guy leaves/ints, what can you do? Pray to the gods he returns? Beg a person intentionally ruining your gaming experience ("please bad person, please start playing normally"). So in the other 2 cases not punished by Riot, your options are pray - beg, kinda funny isn't it.
You play the game out to the best of your ability and report the player at the end of the match.
Flaming the person isn't going to help the situation and isn't justified because what they're doing is also wrong.
Not saying flame isn't bad of course, it ruins games aswell, but the severity of the punishment between flame/leave/int cannot even be compared, one results in a permanent ban, the other results in 5 games of prolonged queue (never a ban), and the third one is only punishable if you take 10 minutes out of your day to go and report the person by hand.
Numbering this for clarity.
1 - Flaming/severe toxicity will only result in a permanent ban if you go through every stage of the punishment ladder. "Regular" language will give you four chances (10 game chat restriction > 25 game chat restriction > 14 day gameplay suspension > Permanent ban) whereas more heinous language will give you an immediate 14 day suspension followed by a permanent ban if you use any sort of negative language.
It's not an immediate permaban.
2 - As mentioned above, I agree that AFKing should warrant much more severe punishments and the current Leaverbuster system doesn't offer enough to deter someone from doing it.
3 - Intentional feeding is punished contrary to popular belief, some cases take a lot of time and aren't as readily identifiable. The automated system is capable of detecting it, albeit somewhat inconsistently. Nobody ever said the system was perfect, but it's the best one we've got.
I know the world is currently a place where it's popular to play the victim and be offended by everything, but IMO Riot has taken that step a bit too far.
This has nothing to do with the "current world" and everything to do with the feasibility of an automated system.
Chat punishments are easier to detect and are much more common, gameplay punishments are not. That's as far as it goes.
