These are fringe cases. LeaveBuster is keeping track of repeated, repetitive leaves within a reasonable time-span, not punishing someone with extreme measures just because he left once or twice within 6 months. Therefore:

1. It happens rarely enough to not make LeaveBuster angry when it happens.

2. This happens, but if someone is "surprised" by many "sudden" DC's within a week, then really, he should have seen it coming that there's a serious issue once the second half of the week comes in. I'd still consider it a fringe case.

3. See 1.

4. That's a difficult one. But a child can predict when it's getting busy with the parents over time. If one knows that they're eating together at 6 PM, he shouldn't start a game at 5:45 PM. Unpredictable situations are, mostly, rare enough, although that depends on each one's parents (most of the time, you find a window of opportunity, though).

5. The weakest argument of them all because this is entirely at fault with the one who forgot said rendez-vous. If someone can't remember important stuff, then there are enough items that can help with remembering them (Mobile phones are pretty good with that).

These fringe cases are opposed to the many cases where people are griefing. If something isn't punished for being a jerkass, he'll not change within the wide world web.

Again, in case of TL;DR: LeaveBuster searches for patterns and these arguments don't provide a reliable pattern.

siraston i need help so i tried logging in to my account today, and it said i was banned until september 11 and thats what today is so i thought maybe i oughta wait until 12pm so i did and still nothing it is now 3:30 and my account is still not opened HELP thanks !!!

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I must say I am rather curios. While the given examples may have been lacking a little bit the point of the argument is not less valid. Does anyone know how a pattern is determined as punishable? Certainly not, if you didn't programm the system. Even if you did programm it, you most certainly wouldn't be aware of all scenarios, that would fall under a given pattern. Why? Because real Life is complex and can not be translated into any kind of patterns, algorythms and such.

This would make my first point. You for a fact don't know who is going to get punished by the system and for what. Being afk or disconnecting. That is all that gets registered. Not the reason behind it. Even if a lot of people get punished for the "right" reasons. This is a game! Are you serious? There may be a player base for LoL that is platinum+ but then there is this huge crowd of people that don't even want to try hard. They just want this game to be fun and kill some precious time with it. Maybe they have obligations that are way more important than playing league to the liking of some pattern determening machine and may be thats the reason they are only playing coop vs AI and solo custom games or duo custom games with a precious friend. May be they play LoL on a Linux machine and use the solution provided by Riot that sometimes and not seldom disconnects and is almost never able to reconnect. These people, yes that would be me, still get punished.

Moving on. Do you think a system that is 99% correct is just? Did you watch the movie Minority Report? Forget that. Assume 99% of the people get punished correctly. With 27 million players a day, how many unjustly punished players will that be? Well, let me do the math for you. That would make 270000 players per day who would get punished for just playing the game they love.

Although there would be more to say my final argument shall be this. While LoL is a computer game, there are real people sitting in front of the computers, playing. They are investing precious time and money, hence more time, into the game. Because they like it. What do they get in return? The attempt to get educated through a system that is backed by a very lacking educational theory from the 60s or something. That is just disrespecting.

IMHO this shows that Riot is pushing too hard and I am very unhappy with this system.