Does Riot have people who can read Chinese?

Dracozx·Apr 20, 2018·1 votes·1,053 views

These days I have seen so many people abusing other players in game using Chinese language. Basically, what they said means "F your mother" "your mother is dead" "I'm riding your mother" "you are a retarded noob"... something like these, if translated to English.

Apparently those people are the "bad" half of the Chinese student population in the US, who came to the US only because they can use their money to get into good private school in the US and their money does nothing in China in terms of school application.

I reported after game and explain to Riot that they were saying offensive and abusive stuff in Chinese, but I just wonder: Does Riot have Chinese employee, or some america people who can read Chinese? If no, maybe I'll stop wasting time reporting them next time.

5 Comments

SEKAIApr 20, 20182 votes

You do realise different culture views the same insults differently, right?

"Fuck your mother" (given your ""list"" is basically all variations of this 1 same insult, as an attempt to blow it out far bigger than it really is) is basically Chinese's equivalent of "shit" or "fuck" given it's basically the #1 go-to insult in the language and so universally used it is used even in situations like "oh, fuck me".

But no, let's just use the worst kind of negative bias and assume the worst of an entire demographic of people as how else am I going to push my borderline racist agenda with the rest of the post amiright?

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This isn't to say IFS's general incompetence in recognising insults from non-English languages is all fine and dandy, but your thread is also a problem in and of itself.

Bael the RiserApr 20, 20181 votes

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You do realise different culture views the same insults differently, right?

"Fuck your mother" (given your ""list"" is basically all variations of this 1 same insult, as an attempt to blow it out far bigger than it really is) is basically Chinese's equivalent of "shit" or "fuck" given it's basically the #1 go-to insult in the language and so universally used it is used even in situations like "oh, fuck me".

But no, let's just use the worst kind of negative bias and assume the worst of an entire demographic of people as how else am I going to push my borderline racist agenda with the rest of the post amiright?

.....

This isn't to say IFS's general incompetence in recognising insults from non-English languages is all fine and dandy, but your thread is also a problem in and of itself.

No. Diew nay lo-mo or diew nii gor ma or whatever is only used as an insult towards the other person. If they're trying to say something like FK cause of the situation they'd used pook guy.

The same can be said for calling someone a try hard in korean solo q. Now thats an insult.

SEKAIApr 20, 20181 votes

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No. Diew nay lo-mo or diew nii gor ma or whatever is only used as an insult towards the other person. If they're trying to say something like FK cause of the situation they'd used pook guy.

The same can be said for calling someone a try hard in korean solo q. Now thats an insult.

First of all, those are Cantonese (used primarily by those in Guangzhou or Hong Kong), not Mandarin ie the common language of China. Just saying.

Secondly, those are indeed considered insults in China, even "cao ni ma" which is the Mandarin equivalent, but in casual settings, online, and within close relationship circles (tho intimate relationship generally excluded ofc), those are culturally seen as the same as "fuck" or "shit". This is why premades often spam terms like that, while yes premades are often toxic as hell but a lot of times it's just friends trashtalking to each other (and I've personally never seen "pok guy" being ever used). It isn't to say Chinese players can't be toxic, but I do think it's overrated (something OP definitely did, and used it to bridge to his questionable agenda).

The ArchiveApr 20, 20181 votes

tbh, it's probably less an issue on Riot's end and more an issue on the player base's end.

If someone's being toxic in Chinese, and no one else on the team understands them, well, they just don't know to report them. And since getting banned is usually based on a pattern of reported behavior, it follows that they're less often banned, if they're less often reported over all their games.

PercentagesApr 20, 20181 votes

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tbh, it's probably less an issue on Riot's end and more an issue on the player base's end.

If someone's being toxic in Chinese, and no one else on the team understands them, well, they just don't know to report them. And since getting banned is usually based on a pattern of reported behavior, it follows that they're less often banned, if they're less often reported over all their games.

I thought it was a bunch of asian people using NA servers, sucking up all the bandwidth. I also have seen many people typing out in chinese. It kinda sucks having a language barrier when its already hard enough to communicate in this game.