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Can I get banned for stating my opinion?

You Are Clueless·4/3/2019, 10:13:22 PM·3 votes·2,411 views

Let's say that the whole chat is empty. No one has said anything about themselves or their preferences when it comes to sport or TV-Shows.

Will I get punished for saying the following, assuming no one in the game has said anything.

Example 1: I think anime is for losers.

If no one has said anything, how could I possibly be targeting/harrassing anyone / violating the rules?

Example 2: I think basketball is for losers.

If no one has said that they are a basketball player or basketball fan, how could I possibly be targeting/harrasing someone / violating the rules?

This is a serious question :)

EDIT #1: I can see that anime fans are starting to downvote my post. That's kinda childish in my opinion, because this is a serious question.

38 Comments

Deep Terror Nami4/3/2019, 10:19:23 PM11 votes

I think maybe that falls on a lower end of toxicity, but obviously it's being said to incite arguments and insult people randomly. If you do this frequently I would not be surprised if you were issued a punishment either by the system or through a manual review. If you think making general statements not directed at a person is a loophole to get away with being rude and starting fights, it's not as clever as you think.

TheUrbanKitsune4/3/2019, 10:27:44 PM8 votes

Disregarding whether it's toxic or not, it's completely irrelevant to the game at hand. You queued to play a video game, not discuss what people like to watch in their free time. Probably better to keep your mouth shut if you have nothing useful to say, nobody asked for your opinion.

Literal IRL Tree4/3/2019, 10:45:32 PM6 votes

You are obviously trying to just find a way around being reportable while being actually toxic man. Say as you please but I'm nearly certain you are just trying to avoid punishment of toxicity

Telephone Booth4/3/2019, 10:49:21 PM5 votes

There is no reason to state that in the middle of a match, other than to provoke or insult. Its directed at anime or basketball fans. So idk what you mean by its not targetted. Go ahead and play dumb though, idc.

Kei1434/3/2019, 10:14:58 PM4 votes

The more serious question is .. why are you trying to play with fire?

Xidphel4/4/2019, 12:35:43 AM3 votes

You don't get punished for stating your opinion. You get punished for being a dick.

You Are Clueless4/3/2019, 10:14:19 PM2 votes

And this is not negative behavior. If this is negative behavior, then saying that terrorism is for losers is negative behavior too.

Imperial Pandaa4/3/2019, 10:15:52 PM2 votes

It can be.

afmghost4/4/2019, 3:30:14 AM2 votes

This is like pouring gasoline everywhere and then arguing that it's ok because "there are no open flames anywhere near it." I mean you're just asking for an explosion by doing that.

Tham Chundi4/4/2019, 2:03:23 AM1 votes

having opinion in 2019 == not exist.(cant do) maybe new law say YOU CANT HAVE AN OPINION OR THROW JAIL. Thats what riot want (This is sarcasm please do not remover the coment

ModJikker4/5/2019, 3:07:44 PM1 votes

This thread has pretty well run its course and been answered. Since it's devolving into passive aggressive and insulting comments towards others of different opinions, I'm going to lock it down before it goes further.

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Tremaursen4/4/2019, 3:34:36 AM1 votes

As a loser who likes anime I can safely say OP is probably trolling

KFCeytron4/4/2019, 12:04:26 AM1 votes

To answer the apparent question, yes, you certainly can get banned for stating an opinion. You can also get banned for factual statements, whether true or false. The key is whether you're being toxic, flaming, and/or harassing people. Dropping "anyone who likes [this popular thing] is a loser" into chat is obviously just meant to rile up anyone who likes that popular thing and turn chat into a flamefest for your amusement, which is rightfully punishable.

To answer your actual question, it's an interesting idea to try to come up with some pre-approved toxicity with a paper trail you can link to, but, if you got banned for such behavior, neither the IFS nor Riot support would care about this thread (even if anyone did agree with you here, which no one is).