Now THERE’S a concept! Maybe some games have done it already, but if so I haven’t seen it. It sounds like a really great idea though! If you get reported for toxic behavior (specifically verbal abuse or offensive language) enough times, you get the chat function disabled in your game client. If you try to complain to the company about it, you just get a message saying something along the lines of “you have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you never use the chat function for anything positive. You only use it to insult other players and make the game experience worse for them. Because of this, you don’t get to use the chat anymore. Enjoy the game without it.”

Of course this would probably lead to those people quitting the game, but hey, if your behavior was bad enough that you need to have your chat privileges taken away, you’re probably the type of person who would deserve to be banned from any other MOBA anyway, and the community would be better off without you.

Then if those people decide to keep playing the game, at least all of the verbal abuse, insults, racial slurs, etc. would be kept on their side of the screen, where the rest of the players can’t hear it…

And if anyone’s thinking of telling me “you know you can just mute people who are insulting you…” Yes, I can, but god damn it I shouldn’t HAVE to. I shouldn’t have to listen to even the one or two instances of verbal abuse I hear from a person before I mute them, and the community shouldn’t be so toxic that I have to consider pre-muting everyone before the match even begins.