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The Toxicity Pushing By Riot Is Getting Awful

qnn4MLdDF4·9/19/2015, 8:27:50 AM·2 votes·512 views

The community has literally gotten out of hand. I just got reported for saying in POST GAME LOBBY, after the game was OVER, "oh lol wtf ahri you were 1/9 O.o" because I didn't notice during the game that the players score was so poopy. I also said during game to surrender because we can't do anything to stop them, when they just aced us and took baron and were in our base. The agenda of toxicity that Riot is pushing is literally turning the report feature into a troll tool by the community. Even the slightest transgressions seemingly come with a healthy dose of OMG REPORT, can't even mute somebody without being reported for not communicating or being negative or any number of whatever they want to report for. What's the point of muting people if it can be turned against you to report you for it because I'm pretty sure Riot has come out to say it has a negative impact on the match and team.

I don't get it, I think the hard push for REPORT ALL TOXIC BEHAVIOUR that Lyte is pushing has bitten the community in the backside. Like I said, it's a troll tool these days because people get reported enough and the system bans you since it's now automated.

7 Comments

D Bag9/19/2015, 9:03:04 AM1 votes

Summer, are you a hot gril?

HayRoss9/19/2015, 2:33:40 PM1 votes

Pro tip: Don't say that you're muting someone. It raises the chance of you being reported by 784%

Renascent9/19/2015, 3:18:32 PM1 votes

When I look at what you've put here, I would also think you were insulting everybody on the team.

Everybody's already in a less-than-okay mood when Baron gets taken (I'm sure you know the feel when you hear "RUAHHHHHHHHH" Baron has been slain, then the impending doom of the straight-down-mid push).

Almost everybody's had a taste of "the comebacks" in their league lives before, so they'll play 'till the end, especially so in ranked games. So if somebody on the team decides to surrender, the rest of the team will think a lot less of that one person.

Then in the post-game lobby, when you bring up Ahri's score like that, everybody's in a less-than-stellar mood already, and they'll see your comment as an insult. Also, since you were "that person who wanted to surrender already", you're already on bad terms with the rest of your team in their eyes.

Ending Note: Some people's casual language can be insulting for others; Not everybody will see "oh lol wtf ahri you were 1/9 O.o" as being spoken in a friendly tone, especially if the context of the message is bringing up somebody's terrible performance. If you find that your chat messages are causing more anger in your games than friendliness, you may want to consider limiting yourself to objective messages instead.

qnn4MLdDF49/19/2015, 5:19:02 PM1 votes

"Objective messages" you mean the ones that people freak out about telling them how to play? Can't even ping and ask somebody to help you or do something quickly without an ego getting in the way and them telling you to not tell them how to play the game or their champ.

I wanted to surrender because I was Ashe, my team was unable in the last three team fights to stop the Wukong and Renekton from instantly jumping on me and taking me out before I had a chance to do something. I asked for them to peel for me multiple times because I kept getting instagibbed and was unable to do any damage before I was dead and I was ALWAYS in the back but dashes and flashes are great gap closers. Then when baron was taken, it was super over, not just over from the 2 inhibs they had previously taken.

If people are unable to understand that the game is over after being aced multiple times in a row and the other team in literally just boosting their KDA at that point, maybe they shouldn't be playing league of legends. It's ok to fight for the win, but you also need to know when you are beaten and you are just wasting the time of everybody else in a game that is for all intents is 99.99% over.

It's easier to just mute everybody once the game starts, say nothing in champ select, say nothing in post game lobby, because the "everything that makes your tummy hurt is toxic" rhetoric Lyte and his team push is pushing people to ridiculous extremes in reports.

Sir Yamazuki9/19/2015, 6:14:45 PM1 votes

Not sure why people think muting leads to being reported for not communicating... While I've never muted anyone in all my years of playing online games in general, I don't even use chat, not even when someone is asking me a question usually unless it's at the start. Only time I use chat is to say x no flash/etc, which could be done even if I were to mute everyone every game; and yet I don't find myself banned for not communicating.

Also, you generally shouldn't really say anything to someone unless it's constructive.

qnn4MLdDF49/19/2015, 7:46:06 PM1 votes

Shouldn't say anything unless it's constructive?

Is that what online gaming has come to? You aren't allowed to trash talk the enemy team? Can't jokingly make fun of a teammate for something silly they did? I laugh at myself and call myself shit in chat when I make a fuckup or do something stupid.

I called somebody a POS yesterday, not piece of sh!t but just the three letters, because they were being a jerk being I muted them. That could be reported for negativity because it was. But for anything that isn't 100% helpful and praising to be told "you aren't allowed to say it because we have bred a community where anything we don't agree with is instantly negative and deserves to be punished.", it's ridiculous.

That's instantly setting people up for failure, they may as well remove the option to be able to chat and just go with button commands like they do in Smite if you want to communicate something.

Hellhammer9/19/2015, 8:30:13 PM1 votes

League of legends needs to take a step back and realize its a game, not a cult.