Riot, can you actually do something about toxic players?

Tentakill Myself··2 votes·594 views

Literally every single game there is at least 1 toxic negative person on both teams. 2/10ths of the league community is basically toxic, and nothing has been done about it.

How about ranked restrictions for players who are consistently toxic? kthxbye

17 Comments

BakedLotion1 votes

Or u can grow up and accept that its just words and they aren't gonna hurt u over the internet There's a mute button for a reason. Mute everyone if you're a sensitive kid.

Tentakill Myself2 votes

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Or u can grow up and accept that its just words and they aren't gonna hurt u over the internet There's a mute button for a reason. Mute everyone if you're a sensitive kid.

When toxicity makes people afk it's more than just words...

BakedLotion1 votes

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When toxicity makes people afk it's more than just words...

If they afk because of words then i've proved my point. There are way too many sensitive kids that think they can go online without getting yelled at.

thats like saying someone said 'you're ugly' to someone and they suicide... Yes it's the person's fault for saying those words but its also the other person's fault for taking it so harshly.

Sona Ping1 votes

I'm not allying myself with the other guy in his position, but this is something you need to understand. Nobody can make another AFK or do anything else. They are at fault for quitting, for raging, or whatever.

A person is responsible for their own actions.

theragingnerd2 votes

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When toxicity makes people afk it's more than just words...

if u can't handle it and u afk ur getting reportied its not there fault u diecided to afk and ruin the nontoxics games

Lucentile2 votes

Gaming is supposed to be a safe space for people to have fun. If I can't invite new people into our hobby because I don't want to explain: "Every nine or ten games, someone will call you a racial slur or threaten you over the Internet. But, hey, it's better than it used to be," that's not a selling point.

Nucleophilic atk1 votes

Lyte has said only about 1% of players are toxic :)

Personally, I would rather them give chat restrictions to toxic players, and ranked restrictions to people that troll ranked games...since that is the reason of most toxicity.

Nameless Voice1 votes

And does anyone actually believe this? Because I certainly don't.

The 1% is players who are consistently highly toxic. The ones who actually get punished for their actions. Most of the toxic players that you encounter in your games don't get punished for it, so they don't appear in that statistic. Next time you encounter a really toxic player, look at their profile after the game and check how much honour they have - they often have hundreds of points. Bear in mind that punishment resets all honours to zero.

The problem is that you have to be extremely toxic, and consistently so, before you get punished, so most people don't have any fear of punishment for their actions. This also means that it generally takes a long time between toxicity and punishment, further making people unafraid of bad behaviour.

If the systems that they had in place would detect negative behaviour immediately, and apply some kind of punishment (even if only a light one for a first offence), it might help to get people to understand that their behaviour is not acceptable.

Nucleophilic atk1 votes

Nope, I don't believe it lol. Just relaying the message xD

Simple solution...mute. There. All better.

Sona Ping1 votes

Well then, you have to wonder how "toxic" they actually are when the majority of people don't report them and even honour them.

Nameless Voice1 votes

I've seen it even with players who were extremely toxic in the one game that I saw them in (e.g. hard trolling, intentional feeding, non-stop flaming, going AFK.)

Of course, I still only have that one game to go on as to their toxicity level. Maybe they were super-toxic that one game, and perfectly innocent in all their other games.

MalzaharAnyLane1 votes

You are asking them to fix a problem that has existed for more than five seasons now.

Tribunal never really fixed it, it just resulted in punish spam which is why it got taken away, the people who were 'doing their jobs right' got it taken away by themselves, not the trolls.

It's not a new problem and it's not going to go away. The only way it will change is if you mitigate the impact a bad player's mistakes has on a team's chances of winning, which will only drag out games longer than they already should be. A 15 to 20 kill lead doesn't end games as quickly as it should as-is.

Toxic players have even made Riot employees quit, highly visible reds at that.

Sona Ping2 votes

The only way it will change is if you mitigate the impact a bad player's mistakes has on a team's chances of winning,

I wish I was as optimistic as you. In reality, that wouldn't happen. Players don't act "toxic" towards mistakes; they act "toxic" towards anything. There are players who will rage at, insult, or whatnot at players for their own mistakes. There are players who will berate you for not playing the way they want you to or for not buying the items they would, even if your choice is better. There are players who insult teammates even if the teammate is playing better than they are!

LordGeovanni1 votes

narrow minded mistakes dont make a player bad watch lcs in every single game there is a winner a loser and there are mistakes made those are the worlds best..... that tried out

Sona Ping1 votes

Pardon, but did you reply to the wrong comment? What you wrote isn't really related to the topic on which I wrote.

LordGeovanni1 votes

mostly the guy before you

LordGeovanni1 votes

toxic people freak out can call you names and and at the end report you for being toxic you can mute but the communication suffers ive had about 10 games in the past 3 years where the toxic guy stops being toxic and plays well. but i dont like people who are toxic on the whole those who play good or not. when you dont respond to toxic guys the rest of the team who cant think for them selves buys into what the toxic one is playing and convince the next time next thing you have 7 or more reports on you being toxic. and while the person being harassed might be afk its half as likely that the toxic one goes afk or feeds just to hurt you. the game shouldnt be complacent cause of toxic people and go oh well thats how it is. thats like saying if some one else is harring you at school or work or some where else you go oh well. except games are where you go to relax so its more like some one comming to you when you are in your bed to harass you and you say oh well thats how things are

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