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The straw that broke the camels back

Thilmer·9/15/2019, 1:52:50 PM·19 votes·10,588 views

This weekend I have lived one of the most disturbing and infuriating experiences of my live.

I played a game as Jinx, and due to an enemy invade, I died and gave first blood. My support (a Sona) started flaming me, and refused to play, and basically spent 20 minutes in our base while flaming me (I muted her soon, but apparently she kept flaming me).

Well, here comes the scary and surreal part.

This Sona was so angry at me that she somehow used my League of Legends account to trace my Facebook, then she also traced my Reddit account, and then proceed to harass me in Reddit by chasing me, publishing my private personal information (that she got from my Facebook) and insulting me by calling me "scumbag and NEET".

I report this to Reddit, and in less tan 24 hours not only they banned this account from Reddit, but also other accounts that had the same IP (and therefore belonged to the same user).

This has show me a couple of things:

-First, that the origin of toxicity in League of Legends is that in this community you have literal sociopaths that should have been banned years ago, but nothing ever happens to them, so they just get more and more toxic as time passes, ended in surreal experiences like this one.

-Second, that Reddit can do in 24 hours something that Riot does NEVER. And don't tell me that Riot can't control all its users, because Redddit does not have less users than League of Legends.

By the way, this may be the straw that brakes the camels back and convince me to stop playing this game for good. Trolls? I'm used to them. AFKs? That's just something that happens from time to time. Flamers? I can mute them and ignore them. But weirdos that trace my personal Facebook to publish my personal information on internet places and harass me? That's a big too much to pay in exchange for playing an online game, mind you.

19 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon9/15/2019, 2:22:36 PM8 votes

Except...Them having the same IP means jack shit.

Banning everyone with the same IP means you just take out an entire college dorm. Likely a completely unrelated college dorm, because it's beyond pathetically easy to mask your IP.

IP bans don't work, and will never work. Not since VPNs and other commonplace workarounds were made.

All you did was highlight that Reddit staff are too incompetent to know this.

IHeartDoot9/16/2019, 1:23:33 AM4 votes

That's probably because the truly toxic shit is hidden in the mass of reports on dumb shit. Like someone playing badly. Why report someone who played badly? What are you hoping for?

And then also, this absurd focus on arbitrary shit talk. All these reports over a random comment here & there. If I had a nickel for every report I got for a one-time comment in a game, lmfao...

So all the people who idle in fountain while talking shit for 25 minutes straight are put in the same boat as me, who says one thing one time.

The problem isn't entirely Riot's. It's also reporters, and all these snowflakes that think their case is the most important thing on the To Do List.

Chances are, almost everyone, if not everyone, in this thread is one of the people I'm talking about.

If someone says, "wow you suck," that's not a report. Literally get over it. How do you even function in the real world??????

Smashed Hash9/15/2019, 1:56:07 PM2 votes

https://www.facebook.com/DeezNutzGuyFanPage/

Fart Cloud9/16/2019, 6:39:49 PM1 votes

Lol this sona person has mental issues.

afmghost9/16/2019, 9:26:00 PM1 votes

By the looks of the comments and the story, I don't think it's Riot's fault here. It looks like the guy also found you on Reddit and was able to do all this damage to you. While I do agree that Reddit showed Riot up when it comes to being able to actually address user problems, i would only say that Riot should have punished this guy for afking like a toddler. Riot should not be liable for anything else, since this is also an extreme case. Most of these guys just whine and moan and that's it. They are (clearly) not smart enough to do what this guy did.