User blog comment:Bachoru/Ranked games: (more than) just a fancy champion select?/@comment-3213322-20110722180417

I think I have a pretty good idea of how Riot would respond to this:


 * Harsh and Rapid punishments: The primary goal of Tribunal will always be the rehabilitation of problem players and incentive against misconduct rather than excommunication. While it's frustrating to deal with the irredeemable in the meantime, people are only human and they will make mistakes. A certain allowance for redemption is required.
 * Match doesn't count/ lose less Elo for misbehaving players- The first is a terrible idea, to be blunt. The second sounds good, but would essentially still be unfair to those who win despite having bad players on their team. At any rate, this would require retroactive Elo adjustment, which would create more clumsiness and inefficiency in the system.
 * Ignore list- I think this might be okay at low ELO, but potentially has abuses when you get to the top tier. Compensation: Higher ranked players do not receive this compensation because they tend to be teamed with better players(also this would counter intuitively compensate the scum because they are more likely to be teamed up with scum)
 * Everything else: Currently resolved by banning and permabanning the worst offenders. Segregation of players is a much worse option and in particular these proposals would stick the decent players who simply prefer playing normals with a plethora of recalcitrant knaves, and the custom-only ban would thrusts offendors into a black pit of despair together where no sinners will escape from. Essentially the same as forcing them to quit the game after torturing them and making them worse as human beings in the process.

I will also add that the second player you describe sounds more generally like a bad player than an intentional pest. Those aren't the kinds of players you punish, they're the kind you try to leave behind. What you actually want to think about is a way to make the matchmaking system more efficient for the lowest levels of ranked play. Personally, I have not heard nor thought of any genuinely good ideas on this front.