i got banned a couple weeks ago for verbal abuse. i know exactly which game it was for too, i was actaully being an *******. my buddy isaac was talking to me about the tribunal and he was like the people are babies."he called me a noob"-verbal abuse he looked at the chat log and saw the guy call him a noob once. he pardoned. i wanted to see what people were getting reported for. i pardoned every case because the person was getting called a noob. most of the cases the person rolled the other guy too, suck it up. the only cases i punished people for is leaving and feeding.

in almost all of my verbal abuse cases the guy just never shut up, which is why i decided on punish

if he says something nasty to a teammate or trash talks an enemy once, i'll let that slide, but if he goes on for the entire game about it and never leaves people alone i will punish

taunting the enemy or piling hate on a bad teammate can get you banned because people do not want people to do this in thier games, so make sure if it happens that it is just a momentary slip and not a game long habit

also keep in mind that while you may remember only one game that could have wound up there many times there are 5+ and while i could look at one game and say "this looks like a pardon" I'll keep going through the rest and and may change my mind

just in the future be more careful about what you say to other players

Hopefully you are looking at more than just one game, one game wont throw you into the tribunal multiple games will...

Ill punish for racial remarks, sexual orientation insults, and just non stop offensive language. I've always felt that the word "noob" is simply a dumb word, but not a reason to punish them.

Helps to look at their other games too in order to see if its common behavior from the player.