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Question on behavior and muting players

Lod255·11/24/2017, 10:03:36 PM·1 votes·476 views

I've received a 14 day ban on my account. I didn't receive any prior warnings to behavior though I know people will try to explain that's that how it works anyway. But anyway, it's become apparent to me that the system in place for punishing player behavior makes it so that communicating at all (repeating things that others have said) or saying anything negative puts you at risk for punishment by the system if players report you so my question is simple. If I just mute everyone and go into ranked in silver games and then people report me because I didn't see what they were saying and it appear that I'm just not being cooperative or ignoring them and them think I'm not working with the team am I going to receive a punishment for a certain number of reports for that with clean empty chat logs on my end as well? Or does the act of them reporting me alone mean that reports will add up and I'll be punished for being reported by a certain number of people regardless whether I even used the chat or not?

9 Comments

feeding time11/24/2017, 10:08:33 PM1 votes

No; refusing to communicate with your team isn't a bannable offense.

Riot encourages their players to use the mute function to help prevent toxicity/tilting, and if you mute your team in game, and don't say anything, you won't get punished, regardless of how many times you're reported.

Chermorg11/24/2017, 10:17:13 PM1 votes

I’d like to clarify, because this isn’t a black and white issue.

Will you ever be punished for never saying anything in chat? No. Will you be punished if you refuse to communicate in any way - i.e. if you refuse to ping when it’s expected you do, if you refuse to listen to your teammates’ pings, etc? Probably not - but it can be taken into account to determine if you’re having a negative attitude in the game.

Bottom line: Feel free to mute people, so long as you ping and listen to their pings (when those things are necessary - which isn’t every game)

Zyles1211/25/2017, 3:38:01 PM1 votes

Regarding to your story, does anyone think the report system doesn't work as properly as the community nowadays need it to?

For example: I got also suspended 14 days, and I got a chat log shown as a reason which was a positive one at the end of the game saying gg, gjp nice... just the regular things... All in a positive game & context. Still I got suspended for nothing, I wrote a player support ticket and got as an answer that I was right, but he couldn't just undo the concequences of my suspension (which were: Denial of Ranked season rewards like border, graves skins plus chromas, Summoner icons, but also the denial of my honor rewards (lvl5) the ward skin.) I dont't know if he really coulnd't do something about it or if he was just to lazy to do something about it.

But in the end I got suspended for nothing, which was really bad timed and resulted in a denial of all my rewards... How did this happen? Why did it happen? THe only thing I know is that there have to get some improvements on the system! If you get reported for nothing and it results in a suspension and even RIOT members won't take me serious, who am I to change the whole community, I indeed did not even receive a warning like wtf..?