OK ... lets just start by saying love the game and ive been playing since beta, but if this keeps up your going to start losing players simply because you are too lazy to do it yourself or to cheap to hire a department to handle it yourselves...
Now... this stupid tribunal... I have tested everything and the only thing i have been banned for is the only thing players SHOULD NOT get banned for, chat. I don't care what the person says, as long as there is an easily accessable ignore feature there should be absolutely no reason for a player to recieve even a warning for anything he says in chat. This is the only game PERIOD that will ban players for chat and its completely ignorant. All this does is give people a reason to cry, OMG HE SAID IM BAD, WAAAHHHH, honestly who cares push TAB click the chat bubble by the rude players name and viola chat gone. There is no reason for riot to have to start this completely retarded Tribunal if they would just grow a pair and tell those players crying about chat what all other game companies say, put the player on ignore, and let us know if the problem escalates. Why do they do this you ask? Because it keeps everyone happy not just the crying babies who cant put enough brain cells together to ignore a player through the VARIOUS options made available, and they know the problem will not escalate due to the player being IGNORED (DERP). Banning players for chat is sad your just giving players a reason to IGNORE YOUR IGNORE FEATURE. You can not even message another player who is not on your APPROVED friends list so what would be the harm in telling those players to get over it, grow up, and use the ignore feature? <---- I really want an answer to that one....
Another thing its completely ignorant to give common players the right/power to ban others, PERIOD. All cases are reviewed by players, and i know personally of 15+ players who participate in the tribunal and do not even attempt to process the reports legitimately. They play with me on vent, skype and will go do the tribuanl cases once per day. These players log in just click punish because they find it funny to read posts on the forum saying "why was i banned". My nephew lives in the same house and i asked him how he does his tribunal. His answer was i look at the reported players score and whether or not they lost the game, if they lost i punish if they won i don't. The outcome of the game should NEVER have any determination on whether or not a player is punished.
Just this last game i was reported by a 2/7 akali and 0/5 draven who were duo que just because the best support I PERSONALLY could play was heimerdinger, which isnt much of a support.
Its time for you guys to stop babying this community and force them to GROW UP. People talk trash, people will say things about you that you do not like or agree with. GET OVER IT. Your tribunal is set up for one purpose, harassment cases, which could ALL be solved in game by clicking that magic chat bubble disabling messages from rude players, +1 if u agree guys.
REALLY WANT A RESPONSE FROM RIOT...