You know what is worse than saying "ggez"

slippykitten·7/15/2017, 9:51:30 PM·6 votes·637 views

literally anything else anyone can do. Every other week there's a thread with 5000 upvotes about saying "ez" after a match while, for 7 years, people have intentionally been losing games to spite their team and nobody gives a crap.

This game and it's community is fundamentally broken in a way that can't be fixed. When we're more interested in making sure nobody, at any time, can see a collection of letters that_ might _ slightly upset them, than we are with making sure matches are ever even remotely competitive, then something is wrong.

The problem is that the community is on board with totalitarian style speech control, and couldn't care less that every other match is over in 5 min because one player decided they wanted to lose.

6 Comments

Sp33d Zer07/15/2017, 9:59:28 PM4 votes

Yea! How dare Riot make their game designers, balance team, and champion designers sift through all of those reports for toxicity!

..... Wait what was that? It's handled by different divisions entirely? The people who balance the game don't even look at reports? No! That's not possible! It doesn't fit my narrative!!!!!

On a side note, when is Meledoneus going to make a new ninja champion?

I Love Thresh7/15/2017, 10:17:45 PM3 votes

You're perfectly right. Totalitarian may be a stretch because we aren't threatened into silence, but it's definitely a huuuge circlejerk of virtue signalling people who can't take a joke.

redniwediS7/15/2017, 11:06:15 PM2 votes

Saying a game was easy, while it doesn't bother me, does make me roll my eyes and lose all respect for the person who said it. It is, by definition, unsportsmanlike. Some of us actually want to see sportsmanship in our games, which is why I'm for some punishments for unsportsmanlike behavior.

It's really not that hard. No one is asking you to be nice, we're only asking you to not be a dick.

Sir Fuzzi7/15/2017, 11:54:44 PM1 votes

I could go on and on about this issue. The problem is, you don't seem like you're up for discussion as much as stating a point. So, this for that:

Nobody's fucking ignoring inting, we're just being goddam adults and admitting that particular problem to have greater layers and require a far more in-depth solution than could be reached by addressing points like 'totalitarian' speech control, or 'freedom of speech' on an internet game, regarding the allowance of thirteen-year-olds to swear and be shitty people.

Fixing inting will require a shitton of time, dedication, fixes and tweaks, staff and money. It's going to be a huge effort, and that's assuming they make it-- it would probably take up so much effort for them that short of hiring out a new division for the sheer workload of accurately determining results, not to mention that automating it will lead to unjust bans in more than once case.

Meanwhile, fixing people using 'ggez' to taunt after a game has already been dealt with-- rather entertainingly-- elsewhere. So what if you know what they're saying? Same deal with a filter, idiots... you never heard Eminem? These kids know what 'fuck' is, these kids are more foul than I am by a longshot-- which is something I'd have taken offense to at one point but I digress... the censor is completely arbitrary. But it's there; there's no longer swear words happening on the screen. Sometimes, that's enough.

But that doesn't matter, right? As long as a greater evil is happening, we should ignore all others-- even when we've reached an impasse or have all resources we can have/need to have on it.

But far be it from me to suggest that perhaps allowing unsportsmanlike attitudes would lead to unsportsmanlike behavior feeling just as welcomed and defended. That would just be absolute rubbish.