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Banned for Cursing?

Doombutter·6/18/2017, 2:28:16 AM·2 votes·4,729 views

While you may or may not be ok with excessive use of the F word, is that really worth banning an account over? Especially with a built-in profanity filter? If someone doesn't agree with what you're saying that doesn't make it any less true, and the fact that you can be reported for something as trivial as using a curse word, makes this entire system flawed and inherently toxic.

There are plenty of much better games on the market that don't suffer from the same issues as League does, in terms of how notoriously toxic the community is, while League has the HARSHEST punishments of any other game. League is the only game with the ability to report someone for saying something you don't like or agree with, even if it's not remotely sexist, racist, or bigoted. It's basically just people being butthurt and reporting other people, that's not constructive, it just perpetuates the issue. There are plenty of games in which you can say basically anything you want, but for some reason, they aren't known for having toxic communities ... why is that?

34 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo6/18/2017, 3:02:32 AM4 votes

post the chat logs from the games that got your account banned

Escheton6/18/2017, 2:41:36 AM4 votes

You are free to say dick every now and then, just don´t be one.

Icy Hot Shoto6/18/2017, 4:48:37 AM2 votes

If you're not going to post your chat logs, then ban deserved and you know it, as your logs will show whatever else you said.

Riot doesn't care who started what. You respond with toxicity, you get punished if you're reported.

Doombutter6/18/2017, 2:50:08 AM2 votes

Tryndamere

Lyndris6/18/2017, 3:01:20 AM2 votes

Or could the lack of toxicity in other games be, in part, due to it being the accepted norm for that platform? We haven't and most likely will not accept it as a norm here. I, for one, commend riot for taking on an unwinnable battle, in the hopes it has some effect on the more mature players.

Silent Gravity6/18/2017, 2:40:38 AM2 votes

You're not punished for profanity, unless it's hate speech. You're punished for being toxic to other people. If you copy-paste your chatlog, we can help you look it over to show you what things to avoid in the future.

ModJikker1/31/2018, 5:22:25 PM1 votes

Let's let old threads stay dead. Applying padlock

[poppy-wink]

Kuthillick6/18/2017, 4:40:41 AM1 votes

"Did you know? A profanity filter is not an excuse to excessively curse!"

I Love Thresh6/18/2017, 8:40:10 PM1 votes

Would Riot ban someone for excessive cursing without toxicity? I use fxcking all the fxkcing time, it's just a habit that I will never get rid of (and people tend to think I'm often mad when I'm not at all because of it when I just use it like how a French would use "putain"), I wouldn't want to get banned for something like that.

Troll Armada6/18/2017, 9:47:18 PM1 votes

You cannot get banned exclusively for Cursing. Discording however, is another matter entirely.

DirtyFeat1/10/2018, 5:31:15 AM1 votes

You basically got banned on a game where they have the ability to mute you, they have a profanity filter, and it is a multiplayer competitive game where you are not allowed to trash talk, it certainly is special all of the "good sportsmanship" they sprinkle lol it is a COMPETITIVE GAME WHERE YOU KILL PEOPLE im here to kill you and talk shit it makes the game 100 times more fun. as i said though the game is going to shit because of things like this who wants to play a game with no freedom of speech lol it is like a game made from the nazis specially when the other people have every tool at their disposal to ignore you it is a huge joke lol.