User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/Unexplained chat restrictions - Truth or false?/@comment-11025032-20140813161113

As some already said, you can get reported for nothing, which has always been possible, but without the tribunal there's no way to differentiate real reports and unjustified/random ones. So, it's totally possible to get chat-restricted for no reason (examples : missclick/reporting the wrong person, someone raging and reporting everyone, etc...). And also there's no tribunal case (or equivalent) which means you can't check if your ban is justificated or not (there might be systems to parse the reports, but how can we know if they really work or not ?), Riot might still have access to it, but we don't. I also think that the persons that will post on the forums complaining about their restriction are most likely the ones that rages ingame.

Also, there's the problem of the duration of the chat restriction. I've seen a lot of my mates having chat restrictions and i know that some of them might rage/flame in a few games from time to time which justifies the restriction, but a 100 games chat restriction for someone who happens to rage/flame/whatever once in 20 (if not more) games ? Being restricted for 5, 10 games is ok, but when you get restricted for 50+ games, especially when you're not playing a lot. So i think they should add a time duration as well so that people get chat restricted for X games or X days whatever expires first. With that someone not playing often wouldn't get restricted 'forever' if he gets 100+ games chat restriction.

So far, i've never been chat restricted or even received a single warning, but i've seen enough people around me getting restricted and strangely those weren't the ones that rages/flames the most. So, yeah i think there are problems with the current automatic system. I'm also not sure if the chat restriction (as it is currently) is that benefic to the game. Ok, it solves the problem of flaming, but it also creates a new problem that is the lack of communication. Not having the /all chat is ok as you don't require it that much (well, except for taunting) but not being able to talk a bit to your friends is just bad (and pings aren't and will never be enough to communicate with your team).

Finally, another problem (imo) of the current report system is the presence of that Inexperienced Player which should have never been here in the first place. Since when can you blame someone to not be experimented ? Everyone starts by being a noob, that's a fact. Just deal with it and if you're not happy with it then just report every single player in LoL, starting by yourself, for once being inexperimented. Even if it's ranked game and you feel that one of the players shouldn't be there, it's either that there's a problem with the current ranking system or that you have the same average level as that guy (ok, there's also cases such as buying a well ranked account and stuff like that which is another problem).