Riot has begun testing a new banning system for League of Legends to try and curb the toxicity within the games massive community. They are looking to use a new system that utilizes both human reviews of complaints as well as “machine learning” in an effort to catch offenders and punish them, under this new system those seen to be ‘smack talking’ could receive extensive bans ranging from two weeks for minor offenders to permanent bans for repeat or chronic offenders.

This time though Riot are planning to be transparent with people appealing against their bans and much harsher, even going as far as releasing chat log transcripts as evidence. Riot they had this to say

“Some players have also asked why we’ve taken such an aggressive stance when we’ve been focused on reform; well, the key here is that for most players, reform approaches are quite effective. But, for a number of players, reform attempts have been very unsuccessful which forces us to remove some of these players from League entirely.”

Seems like a cruel but fair system to us, what do you think?