Just a Reminder that using Laugh Emote to mock others is punishable

Eternal Torment··4 votes·1,268 views

Long story short. the Laugh emote was made to portray a Champion's laughing and not to make fun of others and promote shaming Fails.

Mockery of any Kind is considered shaming, which by riot's reports are covered under harrassment. It falls under a Zero tolerance policy, meaning there is no such Thing as "just a prank bro" and "i'm only joking, chill".

Your ego isn't worth being struck by the system. take it with a grain of salt, i leave accepting this fact to each person's own.

Edit: Downvotes will be considered as denial to the content with inherent salt. If i see no comments telling why you would think otherwise i will just assume you guys are mad that this fact is not what you like it to be.

19 Comments

Deep Terror Nami9 votes

It actually isn't. Please just mute people that are getting on your nerves with emotes.

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Nope.

Eternal Torment1 votes

well, then you explain me how i got an automated Response that someone was struck with a punishment...when there was legit only one guy i repored that game, which was the Person that did this.

i made this post to begin with because what happened convinced me of it. i honestly didn't think much of it either until a report actually triggered something.

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

They were probably doing other things which were indeed punishable offenses. Without being able to see what really happened I unfortunately can't really help clarify the situation any.

Eternal Torment1 votes

and i don't believe in accidents when it Comes to reports.

The guy was mute as a corpse in game. safe for a single "xd" when he got killed inlane.

His team never asked for any reports or never made anyhow forms of comment on his attitude.

if he had really been toxic (and i replied literally the same to RAMP in the comment below) then he was struck by pure accident....and i don't believe in accidents when it Comes to riot and their punishment Systems. if that guy had been toxic, i bet my Career as a designer that at least one Person on his team would have said something latest in the after-game chat.

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

I wouldn't put your money on chat that you couldn't even see :/ Most people do not complain to the enemy and call for reports unless their behavior was exceptionally bad. Tbh I think we've solved why he actually got punished, and it wasn't for using emotes.

Eternal Torment1 votes

Maybe.

well, i guess i can consider you are right on it. i just didn't hold it for possible. this is league of legends after all....it isn't precisely famous for having a community that shrugs Things off

Beas7ie5 votes

Can you post links or evidence to any instances where someone got punished for spamming laugh, or any emotes for that matter?

Eternal Torment1 votes

searching concrete proof would be difficult, but i can try. as replied to the other commentor, all i know is that in a game i played just very recently someone abused the laugh to spam me with shame and after the game was hit by a punishment when being nearly mute in the chat. if i had a means, or if someone would give me the necessary Knowledge to record that i would gladly show.

Beas7ie1 votes

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searching concrete proof would be difficult, but i can try. as replied to the other commentor, all i know is that in a game i played just very recently someone abused the laugh to spam me with shame and after the game was hit by a punishment when being nearly mute in the chat. if i had a means, or if someone would give me the necessary Knowledge to record that i would gladly show.

Was it a teammate or an enemy? If it was an enemy then he might have said stuff in his team chat that you couldn't see but the automated system could easily pick up on.

Have you reported anyone at all in the weeks or so previously? It might have just taken time for the IFS to scan and punish them.

He might have also said some things in other games. When someone is reported their logs aren't scanned for just that one game but for last few games or so(I don't know exactly how many). He might have said some things in those games that the automated system picked up on.

That's what I can think of off the top of my head as I am very dubious that someone would get punished just for spamming emotes. I used to spam emotes all game almost every game and never got in trouble. Most people actually found it quite hilarious. It was actually somewhat strategic too as some champs you can set the emote to a hotkey and spam it during an autoattak and it will cause it to "pause" the attack until you stop emote spamming. I used it on some champs like Jarvan to get more last hits on minions. Plus it was hilarious.

SchmidttyGames5 votes

If it were punishable by Riot, they would remove it from the game, because there is literally no other point to the laugh emote than to use it. This is knit-picking, perhaps at its finest.

There is no way to report this. There is no way to track this. There is no way to prove intent with this. There is no way to justify banning someone over this. Your bruised ego doesn't make rules apply where they do not.

Eternal Torment1 votes

well

literally minutes ago an enemy got hit by the system and i got the automatic Response that someone was struck with a punishment. for that.

Mockery and shaming of ANY Kind by riot are punished. verbal, via the chat, is merely the most common and easiest to determine. making fun of someone in all General is not allowed.

the difference isn't that "there is no rule for it" the Thing is that people often are not bothered by it enough to report it.

just because you wouldn't care for any flaming, and therefore wouldn't report it, does not mean it is allowed. and thats what happens with this, and quite a lot of other Things the community grew apathic for.

i can link you a post i made with any and all rules for the reports and just where they exactly apply. im decently sure i got this example covered in there.

SchmidttyGames2 votes

It wasn't for spamming any emotes. I can tell you that outright. It was for something else, most likely chat logs.

Eternal Torment1 votes

as i said, the Person was drop dead mute in the chat, and none of his mates asked for a report either. if he really was toxic in chat then it was so Little that my report basically hit him by accident. and knowing riot there are no accidents with reports

Silent Gravity1 votes

Asking for reports, especially in /all acts like harassment.

One report is the same as x9, so it could be that everyone on the other team knew this, and decided to mute and report after the game, without chancing running into problems with the IFS themselves.

Ra1uga2 votes

so is using mastery emote punishable?

Also, how might riot track this?

Eternal Torment1 votes

depends.

Shaming and Mockery are prohibited by them. The Mastery emote got the "Chat-Treatment" in the sense that you have the choice to mute it now.

and as for how that's found out, no idea. all i know is in my last game i reported someone for that and ACTUALLY got a Response that someone's bad behaviour has been struck accordingly. said Person spoke Little if at all in the chat.

rework trundle2 votes

As long as Riot doesn't make it official, I'll keep doing it as much as I want.

ModCaliCoastReplay1 votes

I don't love players who abuse the laugh emote, but this seems silly. The champions have taunts, laughs...what is the point of having taunts in the game, then saying "don't taunt people or you could get banned"? In what situation is a taunt or laugh considered "friendly"?

ThatEkko1 votes

They made that emote for a reason. And if your that tilted just mute the emotes. Click the icon in the Tab Part Of The Game.

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