League Of Legends Report Message

The Report Feature is a arrangement that allows players to report other players when they run across offensive, negative, or disruptive beliefs within League of Legends.

Reporting

Players can report other players in either the post game lobby screen or champion select past hovering the mouse over the name of the offending thespian and clicking red exclamation marking. Clicking it opens the reporting form, where details most the negative behavior of the actor to be reported can be entered. Clicking the push button Report after filling out the form submits the report to Riot. A combination of frequency of reports versus quality of reports is taken into account holistically when the system flags an account with a penalization. Reports made within champion select are not tied with the penalisation system and are instead used by Riot to collect data regarding disruptive behavior within champion select.^[one]

Reporting Options

Negative Attitude

Griefing, giving upward, putting other players downwards or being negative well-nigh the game.

Verbal Abuse

Including, only non limited to linguistic communication that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable.

Leaving the Game/AFK

This includes logging out or exiting the game before a match ends or stand idle for long periods of time or refuse to participate in the lucifer at all.
While LeaverBuster automatically penalizes leavers and AFKers, AFK reports feed into Anarchism's models and decision making.

Intentional Feeding

Feeding is griefing, not simply having a bad game.

Hate Speech

Racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

Cheating

Using unapproved third party programs.

Offensive or Inappropriate Name

Names that:
- Are falsely indicative of an clan with Riot Games.
- Contain personally identifying data.
- Infringe on the proprietary rights of third political party.
- Are offensive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable. This besides applies if the name uses a misspelling or an alternate spelling to circumvent the restrictions to summoner proper noun choices.

Refusing to Play Position (Champion Select only)

Playing a role other than the one they were assigned without agreeing to switch with the other actor.

Griefing / Hostage Taking (Champion Select but)

Threatening to grief your teammates in game or champion select unless they get a desired outcome.

Other

Miscellaneous negative behavior.

Reasons to Get Punished

The reasons are told in the terms of use and are:

Impersonating any person, business concern or entity, including an employee of Anarchism Games, or communicating in any way that makes it appear that the communication originates from Riot Games;
Posting identifying information about yourself or other players to the Website or within the Game;
Harassing, stalking or threatening other players while using the Riot Services;
Removing, altering or concealing whatever copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights notice of Riot Games contained in the Website, the Game and/or the Software. You besides may not transmit content that violates or infringes the rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, publicity, personal rights or other rights;
Transmitting or communicating any content which, in the sole and sectional discretion of Riot Games, is deemed offensive, including language that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, or racially, ethically, or otherwise objectionable;
Transmitting or facilitating the transmission of any content that contains a virus, corrupted data, trojan horse, bot keystroke logger, worm, time flop, cancelbot or other computer programming routines that are intended to and/or actually damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or mine, scrape or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
Spamming chat, whether for personal or commercial purposes, past disrupting the flow of conversation with repeated postings;
Participating in any activeness which, in the sole and exclusive judgment of Anarchism Games, defrauds whatever other user of the Game, including by scamming or social engineering;
Using any unauthorized tertiary party programs, including mods, hacks, cheats, scripts, bots, trainers and automation programs that interact with the Software in whatsoever way, for whatsoever purpose, including any unauthorized 3rd party programs that intercept, emulate, or redirect any communication between the Software and Riot Games and whatsoever unauthorized third party programs that collect information about the Game by reading areas of memory used by the Software to store data;
Accessing or attempting to admission areas of the Game or Game servers that have not been made available to the public;
Selecting a Summoner proper name that is falsely indicative of an association with Riot Games, contains personally identifying information, or that is offensive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable. You lot may not utilise a misspelling or an alternative spelling to circumvent this restriction on Summoner proper noun choices. Riot Games may modify whatsoever proper name which, in the sole and exclusive judgment of Anarchism Games, violates this provision, without notification to you, and may take further disciplinary measures, including account termination for repeated violations;
Logging out or exiting the Game during live game-play. Riot Games' automated Leaverbuster® system tracks this information over time and bug a temporary ban when a user is determine to have left mid-game too many times. The length of the temporary ban will increase over time if a particular business relationship continues to exit live game play;
Playing on another person's account to "boost" that account'due south status or rank; or
Inducing or encouraging others to violate this Code of Bear or the terms of this Understanding.

Penalties

Instant Feedback Report

Players who are found to be causing a negative game feel are then punished inside xv minutes of the games end and will be notified with a reform card. Players who reported the offending histrion volition be notified with an Instant Feedback Report if a punishment was issued.^[2]

The penalization system generally follows a basic escalation path:

First Criminal offense: three-Day Chat Restriction.
2nd Criminal offence: 7-24-hour interval Conversation Restriction.
Tertiary Criminal offence: 14-24-hour interval Ban.
Quaternary Offense: Permanent Ban.

Chat restrictions restrict the number of chat letters one tin transport in-game, simply players tin still communicate through pings, emotes, private messages or voice conversation. Nonetheless, it is possible to skip to a Ii Week or Permanent suspension based on the severity of the behavior in the game. Excessive negative behavior tin issue in a 2-Calendar week or Permanent interruption at any time without having a conversation restriction on the account. Players who prove consistent reform or show positive beliefs in their games will assistance heal their account's reputation.

Inappropriate Summoner Proper name

Selecting a Summoner proper noun that is falsely indicative of an clan with Riot Games, contains personally identifying information, infringes on the proprietary or non-proprietary rights of third parties, or that is offensive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable will require the offending player to rename themselves. The proper noun change will be provided for gratuitous within Anarchism regions. Repeated name reports subsequently changing names will result in a penalization to either your account or your award level.^[3]

Accolade and Hextech Crafting Restrictions

If you've been penalized recently for negative behavior, you'll exist locked out of earning hextech chests and keys from playing games and the Honor organisation until you've reformed, shown progress towards positive play, and unlock these features again.^[iv] If your Honor level is below level 2 at the finish of the ranked season, y'all volition be ineligible for that season's ranked rewards.

The length of fourth dimension yous're restricted from earning loot is relative to ii things:

Severity of penalization. You won't earn loot for the duration of your penalty, be it a temporary suspension or a chat restriction.
Signs of reform. One time your penalization has concluded, yous'll continue to be restricted from earning loot and locked out of honor until you're recognized to have made significant progress in amending your past behavior.

The number of laurels levels you lot lose is based on the severity of your penalty:

14-day suspensions: Drops your level down to 0 and lock your Honor progress, making your account ineligible for hextech crafting rewards.
Chat restrictions: Knocks your Honor level to 1, or 0 if you lot're already at level 1. Honor progress will be locked, making your account ineligible for hextech crafting rewards.

Once your penalty ends, you'll enter a reform menstruum, during which you'll remain ineligible to earn Hextech Chests and Keys, and your laurels progress will be locked. Ending this reform period requires consistent displays of proficient sportsmanship. Your reform period isn't over after a specific number of games, or afterward a certain date, but is completely dependent upon your beliefs. Yous'll be notified when your Honor progress is unlocked. Once unlocked, you'll be able to earn Hextech chests again even at Accolade level 0. Yous'll start earning key fragments and other rewards over again when you reach Honor level i.

Elo Boosting

Elo Boosting is an act where a histrion logs into another player's account to climb the ranks or increase matchmaking rating on their behalf. This service is disingenuous to the integrity of the ranked organisation and endangers account security, and thus may be eligible for punishment.^[five]

Whatsoever accounts constitute participating in Elo Boosting are subject area to the following punishments:

fourteen-solar day suspension.
Honor will driblet to level 0.
Exclusion from receiving the current season's Ranked Rewards.
Second time offenders will be permanently banned from League of Legends.

ID Bans

ID bans are dissimilar—and more serious—than normal account permabans. An ID ban is a rare, desperate step Riot takes confronting players who've consistently called not to play to win or to abide by the terms of service.^[6] When a histrion is determined to receive an ID ban, information technology'south effectively a argument that Riot doesn't want that particular person to create, admission, or use whatever business relationship on a Riot platform or game for the duration of the ban. ID bans generally consequence from a player: showing extreme aggression in chat, intentionally feeding beyond multiple permanently banned accounts or makes a verifiable threat of impairment against other players or Rioters. ID bans are extremely uncommon. To date, only a scattering of players globally accept always received an ID ban.

Whenever an ID ban is active, Anarchism volition regularly search for account activity on the part of the banned player. If whatever accounts are plant, they will be immediately, manually banned. The behavior of the ID-banned player on these accounts is not taken into consideration—if you lot've been ID-banned. Getting an ID ban means you aren't allowed to play the game publicly.

In guild to appeal an ID Ban, the offending actor must:

Await at least one year from the date the ID ban was applied.
After a year has passed, the affected histrion should submit a thespian support request to ask for a re-evaluation of the ID ban. This asking should include a list of any accounts the player has used while ID banned.

If these weather are met, Riot volition evaluate if they should lift the ban or extend it. If the conditions are not properly met, the player must wait another year before submitting some other request. If a player received an ID ban because of a verifiable threat of damage against a actor or Rioter, it won't be lifted unless there are unique circumstances. If a player'due south ID ban is lifted, information technology ways Riot will no longer manually ban their accounts on sight, but whatever accounts that were suspended volition not exist unbanned. Because of the seriousness of the ID ban, Anarchism volition continue to monitor the player's in-game behavior for a menstruation of time. If the player lapses dorsum into their old, negative behaviors, an investigation will be conducted. Depending on the consequence of the investigation, information technology'due south possible that the ID-Ban is re-applied for at least another year.

Trivia

On the 30th of July 2018, a express corporeality of players in NA, got their perma-banned account, un-banned. This was due to an experiment by RiotWookieeCookie to meet if people can grow and change for the amend.
The NA server was chosen simply because the staff and resources necessary to operate this experiment were in NA.
During this experiment, players who failed to change (or who had no intention of changing at all) were re-banned and remained banned forever. If the experiment is successful NA Rioters volition share it with other offices around the earth and give them the opportunity to adapt it to their players' needs if they find information technology useful. Besides, if the experiment was ultimately non successful NA Rioters will share the results and findings with other regions that highlight the trouble and difficulties they had with the experiment and why they won't be continuing it.
- The roster for the experiment is total. Rioters volition non be able to add any additional accounts; NO exceptions will be fabricated.
- Rioters will be unable to provide updates on this experiment's success (or lack of success) or any updates on when they might take another experiment similar it or when they might make changes in the hereafter.
- Rioters exercise non have any plans to un-ban or allow players to return to League on perma-banned accounts outside of this experiment. The fact that they're running this limited experiment should not give hope that Rioters will end up changing their policies at a later date. They are 100% committed to looking at the data they collect from this process in order to do what's best for League and their players. They are very enlightened that they might discover that their electric current policies are working as intended and perma-banned accounts will stay banned forever. Players should exist prepared for this possibility.^[7]

References

↑ Champ Select Reporting & Muting Exam
↑ Instant Feedback System FAQ
↑ Summoner Proper name FAQ
↑ Honor and Hextech Crafting Restrictions
↑ MMR / Elo Boosting
↑ Understanding ID Bans
↑ RiotWookieeCookie with the NA un-bans