Punishments within the game are pretty harsh.

Beots Cousin··2 votes·628 views

In RIOT's eyes, punishments seem to be a lot harsher than they should. For one, as a first offense to verbal abuse or harassment, it's a two week ban. The second offense, permanent ban. What happened to restricted chat, or warning systems? Right now there are none. Also, once you get your punishment, you're not only punished in the ban once but you're punished throughout the rest of the year. You lose all rewards you worked to get, and depending on when you got your ban, you could lose out on an entire year of rewards, plus not get any of the new hextech stuff. That being said, once you get a short suspension, that should be your punishment, otherwise there's really no reason or reward to try hard anymore, and th already toxic people are going to be going into games toxic, and then you've set them up for failure, in which, the permabans are way too excessive, unless there's constant abuse, more than just twice. In their case, the people who just want to rage and be toxic every single game, should be banned, but RIOT should implement a system in which the player has to appeal in order to get their account back, otherwise, it's in temporary suspention, and if the player doesn't appeal within a certain time period, then the account gets permabanned. With that system, real people can judge whether people have really changed, or if they just want to get their account back. Either way, the system needs to be reworked.

RIOT, you're setting all those people who do struggle with that type of behavior much further back than they already are. You're setting them up for failure and expect the impossible. Why not be an influence which makes the community a better one? Why not, instead of just expecting change, create a way to help people change how they act in game, and not be so power hungry and ban people just like that? There are better solutions than to give a suspension, revoke rewards, and not do anything to help, but expect better behavior.

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Void Nargacuga2 votes

You only jump to a 14 day ban if your chat is EXTREMELY toxic. Eg.: Homophobic slurs, irl death threats, racial slurs, and things like that.

EDIT: Consistent Intentionally feeding or purposefully trolling your team can result in a 14 day ban.

McFatal1 votes

Glad to see that last line is a lie or 30 percent of d5 would have been banned already

Beots Cousin2 votes

It's as little as small complaints, or arguing with a teammate, no matter the severity of what you're saying.

Void Nargacuga1 votes

Consistent negative behavior gets you a punishment. And it goes in these steps:

  1. 10 game chat restriction
  2. 25 game chat restriction
  3. 14 day ban
  4. Permanent ban
DrCyanide2 votes

Chat logs for the punishment if you think little complaints are all that happened.

Beots Cousin1 votes

I haven't ever been banned, but I was in the game when a friend was, and he wasn't homophobic or racist or offensive at all. Just complaining.

DrCyanide2 votes

You get 3 chat logs, his other two might be worse than the game you were in.

Xydem1 votes

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You get 3 chat logs, his other two might be worse than the game you were in.

Is the 3 chat log thing true for the first chat restriction too? I only got one chat log... For an argument in an aram game. Nothing ever before that.

DrCyanide1 votes

In general, yes, but as with the entire system more severe behavior can change it. I believe your email gets 1 chat log while logging into your account gets you all three, but I might have that backwards. You can always send a support ticket in if you think you're missing logs.

McFatal3 votes

I've never been homophobic or racist or threatened someone . The line above was right. It's as little as complaining or telling your teammate to stfu or something like that. The robot that determines ur punishment had its sensitivity level increased to max by the Ph.D. Master lyte

Beots Cousin2 votes

Here's the thing. The League of Legends community is probably the worst I've seen. Full of the most judgmental people on the planet, who take nothing into account. Not the flawed system of reasoning and punishments, and the flaws behind finding those. Truth is, all of you who are defending RIOT, are the same who want belittle all player who have been banned, knowing nothing about how or why the person was banned, and don't look at all at how good the person is in real life, every day. Not to mention, there's a great possibility that none of you defending RIOT even read my post in it's entirety. Right now, the community as a whole thinks that getting banned makes you a terrible person, and that's not true.

Fllesh1 votes

its because what people say prob is wroth a more sever report... i was just chat restricted for the 1st time 10 games, and this is the sort of toxic talk that is considered worthy of it and considered the most toxic 5% in lol:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/bMBrq5E7-i-am-among-only-5-of-league-of-legends-players-to-recieve-a-chat-restriction

what im saying is it does not take much to get chat restricted at all

Beots Cousin1 votes

I read your chat. That's the dumbest punished chat I've ever seen. They only reported you because they were mad. That's so dumb.

Fllesh1 votes

yup, that is possible... i just wanted to show you how little it takes to get a chat ban and be in the worse 5% of players in LoL.... just dont say anything in chat if you can help it, its just not worth it

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