Be Civil When Offering Advice

KairosCrow·9/30/2014, 5:33:28 PM·18 votes·2,822 views

Just a reminder that if you're going to try and help someone improve at League, you really ought to be polite, civil and respectful while doing so.

Unfortunately, it's fairly common for more skilled players to speak harshly, condescendingly, or derogatorily to or about less skilled players, even when trying to help them. If we want our community to be safe, welcoming, and healthy, this needs to stop, and all players need to be committed to fostering a culture of kindness, decency, and self-improvement.

Cheers!

19 Comments

TenSlashTen9/30/2014, 10:09:18 PM3 votes

Never met someone who was good at something and not an asshole at explaining it in one way or another. Why should a video game be any different? I find it insulting to be asked advice in the middle of a game. It's basically being hired as a cook and completely bullshitting on the resume when you have no idea how to cook even the simpliest of dishes. Would piss anyone off to have to explain anything on the fly.

However outside of the game I'll gladly offer any advice etc. Which is why In the game I'm an asshole to idiots and the nicest person outside of it. No patience for stupidity. People who can't help themselves(google a guide/how to play etc it takes 5 minutes of your time and X amount of minutes to read.. seriously.. lazy kids these days disgust me...) Get no help from me.

FourteenFCali10/1/2014, 12:32:09 AM3 votes

Don't even offer advice. The children that play this game don't want to hear it and wouldn't admit a mistake so all it does is fuel fights. Frankly I wish I had an option to just turn off chat since everyone spouts out illogical and poorly reasoned gameplay strategies all day long.

EDIT: just to be clear i mean my own chat I start off with something like "braum dont waste q when ali is alone 10 ft behind turret that awy it isnt down when corki shows up"

immediately start getting trolled in return "PLAY YOUR OWN FUCKING HERO" yeah im laning with you...

Havoc and Chaos9/30/2014, 9:34:30 PM2 votes

Being a overly positive cheerful player is over-rated I mean unless your suggesting this community be a bubble and pretend life is grand.

DustStorm18110/1/2014, 11:03:42 PM1 votes

how bout no

Sintobus10/1/2014, 1:53:53 AM1 votes

I approve but I can't do :D I have issues. xD

I try to be helpful and nice and I can be outside of game god forbid I get asked how to do basic things in game tho. Or worse yet "What do my skills do?" x_x Tell us in champ select so I can decide if I am in a mood to deal with it or not and leave on my own accord pre-game rather than deal with it against my will.

FourteenFCali10/1/2014, 3:24:01 AM1 votes

One thing I forgot to mention, the end result of all this banning is that when I play games no one says a word the entire game. Like what's the point of even having chat now other than inhouses where all players know each other, which in my experience we all get on mumble ANYWAYS. It's bad enough that riot doesn't direct people to use the ingame mute feature (like putting it in the actual chat log instead of attached to a scoreboard) but now every single game I've played in is everyone afraid to say anything lest they somehow stir up shit and get hit with a negative attitude report.

I guess they might all be chat restricted, but that seems unlikely (plus some of them say GG on all chat at the end of the game so it certainly can't be everyone).

Calabok10/1/2014, 8:56:05 PM1 votes

Just a reminder that if you're going to try and help someone improve at League, you really ought to be polite, civil and respectful while doing so.

Unfortunately, it's fairly common for more skilled players to speak harshly, condescendingly, or derogatorily to or about less skilled players, even when trying to help them. If we want our community to be safe, welcoming, and healthy, this needs to stop, and all players need to be committed to fostering a culture of kindness, decency, and self-improvement.

Cheers!

In reality, this sort of gaming community cannot understand your text intentions, so you may as well just NOT comment to them what you want from them just to be on the safe side.