Permanently restrict their chat.
Is it really that hard Riot?
If they can't chat, they can't be verbally toxic. And don't get me started on the "oh but spam pinging" yeah mute their pings, get over it.
How about permanently banning players who go out of their way to intentionally feed and assist the enemy team. Hm...?
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In b4 the people with no evidence who like to bring up an "experiment" Riot supposedly did back in 2010.
They claim that Riot did do this, and it resulted in said people turning to inting instead. But that simply doesn't follow reasoning. The people who flame the most are the ones who are serious about winning the game. They flame people when they feed or make mistakes. Barring the ability to do so, they'd be left with just trying to win the game on their own.
I know the reasoning is supposedly "they look for other ways to hurt their allies" but it hurts them too. And it certainly can't be done to enemies, who are just as likely to be the reason someone flames.
IF this supposed experiment did occur, then several factors render the results completely null:
My point being, I completely agree. There's no reason to ban people from gameplay who haven't done anything in their gameplay to deserve such a punishment. I want the people who are serious enough about the game to flame on my team. Much better than the people who joke all game and laugh their asses off when they die eleven times in six minutes as mid lane Miss Fortune.
If people are going to defend the idea that a permanent chat restriction stops people from inting instead, when they haven't shown any history of inting, then they might as well defend people getting banned at random because playing the game can eventually lead to leaving or inting in games.
I do mute them but some are so bad they stand still for ridiculous amounts of time to argue with my team, so the way i see it i am reporting them for choosing to not help cause they felt something was more important. Or they thought i hadn't muted them and continued to flame. Either way they are being useless just sitting their flaming.
"Blah blah people will find other ways to be toxic blah blah".
"Riot has does this before, blah blah".
Try it anyways, clearly the current system isn't working.
Or...... maybe try to solve the reasons they GET toxic.....
I'm sorry, but how do you think those players who type what the feel...... feel about every mistake you make, every time you seal a loss, declare games are over because YOU did poorly, and begin spam surrendering/yolo inting the rest of the game?
People aren't toxic for no reason. They are toxic because nothing you are offering is allowing them to enjoy the game either.
That doesn't make being toxic right. But...... "Toxic" gets punished FAR more the griefing, feeding, soft inting, etc.
It's basically created a culture where...... We actually encourage poor play making, poor team work, poor comprehension and poor communication.
But....... "Witch Hunt is ON" for those who react to those behaviors.....
We'd almost be better off with a no discipline (ofc punishment for extreme abuse like death threats/hate/racism, etc) for any common behaviors, than with the current system. At least then...... all negative factors would be treated Equal......
Or you can just mute the player ingame and the problem is solved there, no need for any punishment at all
I know i'll be downvoted for this but frankly i don't give a fuck because it's true
How about you grow the fuck up and stop being offended by every little thing.
They tried that a few seasons ago and restricted players would just find other means of venting their frustration..
It's just what I've read though, I didn't actually play that far back and have only been here since S6
No, because I often see, at least in my games, that verbal toxicity is linked to other forms of venting anger such as ragequitting, trolling, or intentional feeding.
It's not uncommon to see someone flip the fuck out on teammates and then alt+f4 5 seconds later. It's not uncommon to see someone BM the shit out of people for playing poorly in lane and then spend the rest of the game running it down mid because "I'm not going to carry you bads" (this happened in a recent one of my ranked games).
Just permanently muting them doesn't stop them from being toxic.
