Mute Button - For Pings

Flamer Lord·Sep 7, 2016·113 votes·6,614 views

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Hello guys, I'm Flamer Lord, working on improving the game as best I can and make League of Legends the best possible experience for each and everyone of us. I've already posted a thread about de-randomizing Critical Chance, which you can find here.

#Today I'll be talking about Pings and why we should be able to mute them ######AND BY MUTE THEM I MEAN A SPECIFIC PLAYER, INCLUDING THE IMAGE (NOT JUST THE SOUND)

We've all played with toxic players, we know how irritating they can be. Insulting, threatening, griefing, etc. Well, they can also ping you excessively and there's nothing you can do about it. Even if you mute them, which is a good start, you will still hear their pings trying to tilt you. So we've got reason number 1.

Pings can be used by toxic players as a way to harass.

Then, there is also the player trying to play for you.

https://s21.postimg.io/7crb1kytj/5_T9_L0_ID.png

The only thing he does in his game is trying to tell you what to do and what not to do, but he seems not knowing it well for himself; he is most of the time having not doing so well. I believe muting his chat sounds excessive, because he isn't technically harassing, but muting his pings can save you from a bad experience. Reason number 2:

Some players are trying to play for you. That can be extremely annoying.

Finally, there is that game when you know you're going to tilt and just don't want to hear your team trigger you. But hey, you can't mute pings right now, so if you're sightly irritated and about to reach oblivion, then that can be the thing to make you explode. I know what I'm sayin boiz, I'm el Flamer Lord after all. Reason number 3:

Sometimes, you just dont want to hear pings, at all.

Feel free to comment and give your opinion below.

##Thanks for reading.

74 Comments

TyrekGoldenspearSep 7, 201635 votes

A dude named Flamer Lord is trying to make our League experience better...

I'm suspicious.

Flamer LordSep 7, 201614 votes

#You've seen right through my evil plan ! Noooooooooooooo...

SinlaireSep 8, 20161 votes

Flameo hotman

Velzard of KozSep 7, 20166 votes

Maybe he's Brand main.

TPA Jason123Sep 7, 20162 votes

we are all suspicious.

XXXCypressSep 8, 20161 votes

LOL makes no sense right XD [zombie-brand-clap]

IRyzeForNidaleeSep 7, 201611 votes

Teammate gets ganked by the enemy I probably pinged or said mia about 20 seconds ago

Suddenly

? ? ? ? ? ?

Gets spammed on top of my lane for the next 5 minutes straight.

Velzard of KozSep 7, 20163 votes

I usually tell them "I pinged several seconds ago, maybe ur deaf?" Then they shut up, occasionally go like "Sorry didn't notice"

Du Ma MiSep 7, 20162 votes

Oh shit you get teammates who CALM DOWN when you make a reasonable argument? That's OP

Somewhere over the rainbow starts playing

XonraSep 8, 20161 votes

{quoted}

Teammate gets ganked by the enemy I probably pinged or said mia about 20 seconds ago

Suddenly

? ? ? ? ? ?

Gets spammed on top of my lane for the next 5 minutes straight.

I got a bit triggered just imagining that as I could hear the ping noise in my head <_<

Pew Pew LasersSep 7, 20167 votes

A mute button for emote spam would be nice too. Nothing like lux/lulu/annie supports with nothing better to to do than spam their laugh button.

PikmintsSep 8, 20161 votes

I've been supporting the idea of hiding emotes for so long now. I wouldn't mind it being in the options menu and just have it apply to all players. Seeing an enemy spam text in all-chat can be hidden because it's annoying, why not be able to hide emotes for the same reason? I've had the "champion voices" volume down all the way as it's the closest thing to this feature.

Pandemic PunchSep 7, 20164 votes

You can already mute pings. Do you mean, make them unable to be seen as well?

Flamer LordSep 7, 20168 votes

Yes.

Pandemic PunchSep 7, 20165 votes

Ahhhhhhh! Then I concur.

Flamer LordSep 7, 201613 votes

And not only that, but that button would be player specific. Not just everybody at once (even though you could mute ping every player at the same time)

Pandemic PunchSep 7, 20163 votes

I would use that.

aLawfulFalafelSep 7, 20162 votes

u can mute pings?

Pandemic PunchSep 7, 20161 votes

There is currently a Volume slider for pings in the in-game menu.

aLawfulFalafelSep 8, 20161 votes

although i didnt know about the volume slider i thought there was an individual ping mute option, i was excited :p

Pandemic PunchSep 8, 20161 votes

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news friend.

aLawfulFalafelSep 8, 20161 votes

no worries, thanks for the info

ArkatraSep 7, 20164 votes

Most MOBA have it.

Mute a specific person's ping.
Reporting someone automatically adds the person to your block list.

rtbf225618241Sep 7, 20163 votes

There should be a separate button next to the normal mute button to mute pings. So you can mute the player and if he starts spamming pings afterwards, you can mute his pings aswell. Or just mute someone's pings who is not using chat and is spamming.

M0useXxSep 7, 20163 votes

You sir are brilliant. I just want a way to mute one ONE persons annoying pinging. If they know you already muted them then they ping you to death it ruins the game. I end up instead trying to figure out how to remove fingers from them so they can't ping me rather then how I can and will help my team win. [slayer-jinx-catface]

Flamer LordSep 7, 20162 votes

Thanks for the support!

Not xPekeSep 7, 20162 votes

spam pinging is still reportable by the way.

Not disagreeing with what you said though.

LegendmakerGXSep 8, 20161 votes

How? There is a spam report but that is practically for chat only. There is no way the system take in account pings since no one had been suspended yet for spam pinging...ever.

Not xPekeSep 8, 20161 votes

You report for unsportmanlike conduct AND for spam. I can't find the link but a Rioter, or at least a Volontary on the boards, **assured **me spam pinging is reportable.

Besides, you can always type in the chat box when you report someone that he was spamming pings with the sole purpose to be negative.

If it happens enough times, there will be either a manual review triggered, or the system starts adapting and recognising that a report, if combined with the analysis of pings being spammed in game, means that the reported player was being negative/toxic.

S0kaXSep 7, 20162 votes

"Sometimes, you just dont want to hear pings, at all." That's why you can mute every single ping [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Flamer LordSep 7, 20162 votes

But I'm not talking only about every single ping. That would be a player specific option that also disables the image.

redfeenixSep 7, 20162 votes

A great idea!

You can expect this to be implemented at the same time as replays.... Soon (tm)

Nice post

TPA Jason123Sep 7, 20162 votes

Oh Meh Gerd!!! How can you be so smart? How is this logical. NO way. This must be a evil plan. But it sounds really good T_T.

Flamer LordSep 8, 20162 votes

#Huehuehue

By pressing the mute pings button you are in fact activating the mind control engine in your headphones so I can make you my slave.

Sir FuzziSep 8, 20162 votes

(foreword: in favour of player specific ping muting. volume doesn't cut it, I may wanna hear what other teammates have to say with non-spammed pings)

PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE DO THIS. Do exactly this. DO THIS. Do what this guy is saying and do not ever stop doing it.

Forget lunch. Forget the mopping. Forget payroll.

This.

Do this. Add the ping mute.

Do not ask why, do not refute us, do not tell us it is not necessary. If we choose to mute (players or pings), we take on the consequences willingly.

Trust us. It is exactly worth the loss of coordination, and yet worth losing even so much more for just sweet seconds of bliss, if the case is so.

I cannot express how depressing I find it that 2016 is about roll off the calendars and we still cannot mute pings. Maybe it's in the boat with the Sandbox issue.

I don't need a single god damn reason other than that it's an option that should be available. People will use it to troll?

WE WOULDN'T WANT ANY TROLLS ON LEAGUE OF GOD DAMN LEGENDS, WOULD WE?

THAT NEVER HAPPENS.

Pale PirateSep 7, 20161 votes

I don't have trust that people will use it correctly. Sometimes I ping frantically but it is because my enemy mid is roaming or because I have noticed enemy movements which someone else hasn't. I would hate to get muted because people don't get why I'm pinging.

Also there is the communication problem. Imagine we create a plan through pings. The whole team could go in disarray if one person has pings muted. This is the exact same reason why mic communication is not enabled.

Great OzymandiusSep 7, 20162 votes

I would hate to get muted because people don't get why I'm pinging.

If people don't get why you are pinging then your pings aren't helping, are they?

One of the things that most tilts me is when one of my teammates keeping pinging the question mark over me throughout the game. This causes a number of problems

I'm thinking about how much I hate my teammate rather than now I can win the game
The "enemy is missing" ping no longer registers as such. I hear that and I assume that somebody on my team is complaining, so when it turns out there actually is a roam it catches me by surprise
I sometimes turn off the sound b/c it is so fcking annoying. and then I don't have audio to go with the game.

AcexxzSep 8, 20161 votes

Can we mute other champions voices as well, besides our own?

Flamer LordSep 8, 20161 votes

Currently not, but this is another topic I believe.

JRobin31Sep 8, 20161 votes

I agree that pings should be mutable because I agree that pings can be annoying but I disagree that it is "toxic". Don't throw that term around carelessly. Now receive my up vote.

AnritaDec 25, 20161 votes

There is a difference between annoyingly excessive pings and toxic pings. An example of toxic pings is when a player spams retreat pings on a specific player, the whole game from the initial fountain spawn to the destruction of a nexus, regardless of what that player is doing. The difference between that and a player who tries to coordinate with teammates, but does so with annoying and disruptive bursts of ping spam is malice. If you have not had a teammate maliciously abuse the ping system, consider yourself lucky.

JRobin31Dec 30, 20161 votes

I guess I've been lucky... I've experienced excessive pinging but not toxic pinging. Just report them and move on.

But I still agree that mute for pings would be very nice for players that ping excessively or show that they don't know when and how to ping properly: pinging disengage from winning fights or engage on losing fights can be distracting.

KAAAAAAAYN DOSep 8, 20161 votes

I'd say have two options. Mute pings and mute excessive pings. The first stops all visual pings, the second prevents you from reciveing pings from the same player within a 1 minute window. There are games where you have a troll but he then realizes its not works and they just play. I'd say having both would allow for players to make the choice of "its annoying but not THAT annoying"

SolidariusSep 8, 20161 votes

I play with music so I cant "hear" pings.

Where do you see the pings?

Flamer LordSep 9, 20161 votes

Both in the minimap and the real map.

ChatillonSep 8, 20161 votes

There should be one near a player though, because i like the sounds, but I dont want to hear kayle ping missing or see it at all bc it doesnt matter...

Flamer LordSep 9, 20161 votes

What do you mean?

ChatillonSep 9, 20161 votes

Oh on the TAB menu, like beside the mute botton is a mute pings from this player button. Because i wanna hear other pings, but I dont want to hear that one salty persons pings

Flamer LordSep 9, 20161 votes

There isn't a button there currently, but in the tab menu beside the other mute button is the plan, yes. Omellete du fromage.