Riot have been running an experiment within the MOBA game League of Legends in an attempt to see if they could clean up the community better with a strict policy as opposed to their usual ‘redemption’ methodology. One Redditor decided to see just how well this method was working.

PersianMG created a perl script that has collected the data from 100,000 of the recent Tribunals in the North America server regions, although due to the removal of Tribunal pages the sample pool is actually closer to 10,000 cases. The data was collected from the online Tribunal pages to see just how big a percentage of people were being punished or banned from the game as the crackdown on “extreme toxicity” went ahead.

The results revealed that in the majority of cases summoners were punished for their actions, although most of the punishments came in the form of ‘first-time warnings’. Just over 1000 summoners, a percentage of around 1.1% were actually permabanned from the game, while just under 8% of Tribunals resulted in a pardon or were dismissed. One of the most common complaints were racist chatter; one of the things Riot wished to cut down upon.