Remove chat feature

Nooobenstein··1 votes·748 views

I believe league needs a remove chat feature or remove the ability to chat for those with mental health issues. Because of my mental health I literally have urges i cant control to type negative things that I wouldnt normally type or say. This has led me to be depressed and frustrated as I felt league was bullying me by taking my own words and then building a case to have my account banned- which it eventually was. I felt like league has labeled me or others with mental health issues as "negative people". If this game has a right to ban people over speaking "negatively" in chat, then the game should also offer an alternative to not let someone escalate themselves to the point of being banned. I feel like this targets a small group of people, myself included, to end up banned and if I had a feature in the game to not type in chat I would never be escalated to the point of permban. Someone linked me a thread to do this in a way outside the game but I felt like it was too difficult to do. There should be a feature in game like a box that you either check on or off. Maybe instead of giving someone a final warning to be banned they get a final warning that their chat will be removed for life. I believe this is a better alternative to include everyone and enjoy league of legends by the standard it should be played. As of right now I feel like league of legends discriminates against those that have extreme levels of mental health issues by just removing them from the game entirely.

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Vicky Fox1 votes

Turn all Chat off. Start of game: Mute all other players. Unbind the chat key. Problem solved. If disabling and enabling chat is as easy as navigating to a menu and then clicking a button. Do you really think you're going to have the self-restraint to not just go do that; say your shit and then just turn off chat again? A harder to readjust solution would be better.

This does however lead me into a much bigger problem which is in fact that League has a chat system to begin with. The community in a whole is far too hostile towards itself for it to be allowed talk to each other. I'm sure anybody who reads this has had more games than they can count where some mistake happens and then everything goes downhill from there because one person decides to bring their vile attitude towards their own teammates.

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