Someone Threatened to Throw My Promos Because I Was Being Too Positive

Troy242621·Aug 23, 2015·112 votes·4,387 views

**Never **had this happen before. Malphite tele-ganked bot lane, and my Graves gets the kill. I say "Nice job Mal, awesome teleport :)" and two players who I'll leave anonymous took it upon themselves to inform me that I'm putting them on tilt by being too encouraging, and that if I didn't stop kissing a*ss as they eloquently put it, they'd fail my promos.

I just. I,... I can't. I have no words. We ended up winning, but what the Hell?

76 Comments

Spizzle9000Aug 23, 201569 votes

Some people are hateful fucks.

Ungrateful ThugAug 23, 201545 votes

If being nice puts him on tilt I'd hate to see what being an asshole does to him. How do people like this even manage to make it through a normal day.

h0tkarlAug 23, 201534 votes

Promo trolls can find out you are in promo using lolking or elophant

IcyPepperAug 23, 20159 votes

Obviously not Lux mains.

I is IlliterateAug 24, 20158 votes

You know what's even worse? Half of the comments here are agreeing with the guys who threatened to throw because of his positivity.

What the hell is wrong with this community?

Bandit King ZAug 24, 20151 votes

It is sadly one of the more toxic communities, furthered by assholes justifying themselves because "Being an asshole is better than losing" aka "I throw temper tantrums because I can't handle the fact that I can lose"

god of the voidAug 23, 20157 votes

Lux be like: "damm..."

Blade of JusticAug 23, 20156 votes

I don't know what the chat log looked like but sometimes positive encouragement can sound like patronizing.

And patronizing can really salt someone's wounds.

Ungrateful ThugAug 23, 201516 votes

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I don't know what the chat log looked like but sometimes positive encouragement can sound like patronizing.

And patronizing can really salt someone's wounds.

What wounds? The Malphite was 10/0/16 at the end of the game. It's not like he was feeding.

Blade of JusticAug 23, 20154 votes

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What wounds? The Malphite was 10/0/16 at the end of the game. It's not like he was feeding.

Maybe he was having a bad day or didn't perform in the fashion that he hoped he did.

Hard to know the extent of someone's patience.

Troy242621Aug 23, 20151 votes

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Maybe he was having a bad day or didn't perform in the fashion that he hoped he did.

Hard to know the extent of someone's patience.

Most of the comments made were akin to "We out-scale, let's just hold what we've got" and "Nice job Malz, good play." It wasn't like it could be misconstrued as sarcasm or patronizing rabble.

Blade of JusticAug 23, 201510 votes

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Most of the comments made were akin to "We out-scale, let's just hold what we've got" and "Nice job Malz, good play." It wasn't like it could be misconstrued as sarcasm or patronizing rabble.

From the information I'm given, he just sounds like a Francis.

Louis, If you dont stop being positive, Im gonna sink the boat just to make you sad!

Francis, Left 4 Dead

iamthegoatofwarAug 24, 20151 votes

you...since you used one of my favorite games to help describe the situation you have earned an upvote.

XonraAug 24, 20153 votes

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Maybe he was having a bad day or didn't perform in the fashion that he hoped he did.

Hard to know the extent of someone's patience.

I know it sounds dumb, but I can sort of understand this. Yesterday I had two vayne games. One was the back end of an ass bad, the first one before that was actually good in hindsight (not great), but I wanted none of it because I thought I was doing terrible.

I felt I was making dumb plays, screwing up my tumble, fail flashed not once but twice that game. My team kept being encouraging and saying I did good when I made plays, but I felt I was doing so terrible that if they weren't doing so well it would have showed a lot more.

I didn't say anything about it and just went with "thanks", but inside I was annoyed at myself for doing so poorly and my teammates treating me like I was doing so well.

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? I never said anything about being negative towards anyone. I said I was annoyed at myself. Someone apparently can't read. I said I was frustrated because they were being nice and I knew I didn't deserve it. Please read before assuming someone is being negative.

MasochistAug 24, 20152 votes

Your team was trying to be helpful and encourage you to do better. Be annoyed with yourself, not at them.

XonraAug 24, 20152 votes

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Your team was trying to be helpful and encourage you to do better. Be annoyed with yourself, not at them.

That's what I said.

TheScholarlyDudeAug 24, 20151 votes

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Maybe he was having a bad day or didn't perform in the fashion that he hoped he did.

Hard to know the extent of someone's patience.

We really shouldn't care as a community. Everyone gets put on tilt because of everything. Wish the game had a riot fist beat people who did this.

General Esdeath Aug 23, 20155 votes

This is the best thing I've seen all day

manbearswineAug 24, 20155 votes

Reported for positive attitude,I am trying to suffer here,some people are just inconsiderate.

KraidAug 23, 20153 votes

Angus' league life in a nutshell when we play. All chats "Hi." Gets reported. item 3070

Vistha KaiAug 23, 20153 votes

Actually I agree with them.

I've been told so much about this bullshit positiveness I'm getting convulsions when somebody is too nice.

"I can't stand people who are nice all the time. It makes me feel like they're trying to hide something." ~Ronon Dex

Troy242621Aug 23, 201514 votes

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Actually I agree with them.

I've been told so much about this bullshit positiveness I'm getting convulsions when somebody is too nice.

"I can't stand people who are nice all the time. It makes me feel like they're trying to hide something." ~Ronon Dex

I'm always going to be as positive as I can in Ranked, because I want to win. I've never experienced a player that gets upset from compliments and positivism. I ended up just being completely silent.

Vistha KaiAug 23, 201516 votes

I ended up just being completely silent.

http://www.asicentral.com/images/blogs/grumpy-good.jpg

ArkenStormAug 24, 20152 votes

Dude, I'm with you. I don't get people. I say "gj" after about every kill, unless they are getting stupid amounts of kills, then I say "assume I congratulate you after every kill"

And people still get irritated, even when I say nothing else. Go Figure.

Tails DollAug 25, 20151 votes

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Vistha KaiAug 25, 20151 votes

Nah. Not enough.

Remind yourself in a week.

ViashinoWizardAug 24, 20153 votes

Are you sure they weren't just joking? Sarcasm can be hard to read through text.

ivnkoxhcucAug 24, 20153 votes

Honestly, coming from someone who's pretty mute in games nowadays, having someone type that much (Regardless if it's positive or negative) is going to irritate me.

Focus on your gameplay, worry about your lane, and win.

If you are typing, you're not paying attention to the game, and I don't want to lose a ranked game, ESPECIALLY in my promos.

P.s., inc down votes because people don't want to hear the truth from a former toxic player.

MaratsuneAug 24, 20151 votes

Someone got the kill, and they were a support, so there likely wasn't much else that they could be doing that typing would inhibit them from?

JChaosMasterAug 24, 20153 votes

I play support and have more then once compliment my adc. They are sometimes taken back to the point they are amazed. Me as a support i hope to get compliments. It tell me despite being a 5s noob I can play my position. I was amazed when I threw myself into a 1v3 fight and wasn't intently flamed.

I was leona and it was a 3 man gank so by doing so I kept them cc enough my adc managed to get out alive.

CenturosAug 23, 20152 votes

How did they even know you were in your promos? You don't just TELL potential trolls, do you?

TransgressorAug 24, 20152 votes

Lolking, opgg, elophant and perhaps others.

Do you live under a rock?

CenturosAug 25, 20152 votes

Oh, didn't realize they were that involved.

Mostly because I don't feel the need to look up everybody I play with or against like some kind of control freak.

TransgressorAug 25, 20151 votes

I only use opgg to check out runepages of highelo players to compare them to mine. It's a good source of info, plus, a challenger player might know something more I could use ;D

VerandureAug 24, 20152 votes

I'm pretty sure you've misinterpreted what they were saying.

As you've put here, it sounds more like your encouragement was making them more nervous about playing well rather than they were going to play poorly to spite you.

Wînter FoxAug 24, 20152 votes

I bet they were British. Only Brits have that sort of backwards humor

AuroramancerAug 24, 20152 votes

Sometimes going over-the-top can seem patronizing or fake.

Just leave it at "gj" rather than "Nice job, awesome :)" <----too overloaded, would make me think it's just fake positivity

FloooooooooooopsAug 25, 20151 votes

I think those two anonymous fuckwads were just assholes. Like if you and your team did something right like get the add a triple kill and take drag and a tower then saying "nice job" shouldn't put you off your game unless your a anti social narcissistic assholr that is.

Sassmast3rAug 25, 20152 votes

Keep in mind that they might have been frustrated with the fact that instead of saying "Nice job guys :)" you chose to single out the Malphite, recognizing him and only him, and potentially pissing off the other two people, feeling under appreciated for how they were involved. Now that being said, they were also probably on tilt already, because although I would also be offended by you only pointing out Malphite, I certainly wouldn't lose my shit; I'd just ignore it and congratulate myself mentally lol.

Mike17032Aug 25, 20152 votes

I read this as someone throwing your Poros, and I was worried.

Glad the Poros are fine.

KnalxzAug 24, 20151 votes

Reminds me of a recent game where I was that guy who was carrying and had to take control over the team and after we had barely won a teamfight I saw our Rengar still farming the jungle (he didn't even have devour) I began pushing but and asked him to push mid and he replied. "STFU don't tell me what to do." He then proceeded to farm top then clear the enemies jungle.

All I could was was "...really"

4ManVotedAgainstAug 24, 20151 votes

http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-The-Black-Gate/Update%2018/17-komor.png "Merrick sleeps in the shelter run by The Fellowship. They feed him, too. He had to join before they would help him. 'Tis the large building filled with fawning hypocrites. Thou shouldst have little trouble finding it! We could have joined, but they are a foul lot. Anybody acting so bloody nice must be up to no good. There are some compromises we will not make, even to survive."

Celeste BenalAug 24, 20151 votes

Another reason to remove promos.

DaxterrAug 24, 20151 votes

lol what the hell. Imagine if pro players acted like that.

Meteos: good job man that was sick Sneaky: fuck off dude you are tilting me i'm going to feed now

blueberrypancakeAug 25, 20151 votes

#TeamCoast

Adc2ChallengerAug 24, 20151 votes

I know what you mean bruh! XD

PanterLilyAug 24, 20151 votes

Honestly, I cant wait for those guys. Then the chat trolling begins, I enjoy so much fucking with pricks like that. The best mini game in LoL.

SlushieDeeAug 24, 20151 votes

Even better than Vaynespotting?

ChaosThiefAug 25, 20151 votes

That would be the point where I would say "if you don't like me, mute me."

Jeddy017Aug 25, 20151 votes

Oh come on people.If you're in that bad a mood where you don't like players being positive with you,then just mute them or move the chat box out of sight. There's no need to be like: Leona :"GJ Ashe on getting that Penta." Ashe :"FUK YU BITCH!" Rammus :"Ok,that escalated quickly."

If someone is saying something you don't like,good or bad,just mute them.There's no need to respond with so much hostility towards players being nice.There's also no need to go on tilt & threaten to ruin someone's promos either.