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Are acronyms less toxic than the actual phrase?

Kikirino·5/24/2015, 5:50:53 PM·1 votes·314 views

I hate the word toxic in this instance but I couldn't think of another word so deal with it for now.

I don't like to use acronyms and lately I have noticed that people react different to the actual phrase compared to the acronym.

As example, when my team decides it is time to play the blame/flame game and I can't bring an end to it through civil and rational means I say "All of you need to shut the fuck up" and it is met with an awkward silence whereas if someone says "stfu" it is more or less ignored and the argument continues. However, the flame war generally comes to an end after I tell them to shut the fuck up but I wonder if I am more likely to get punished compared to someone that just types 'stfu'.

The acronym and the phrase are the same... but are they viewed the same by the community and by Riot?

4 Comments

redniwediS5/24/2015, 6:49:07 PM3 votes

Words are just strings of letters, they cannot be insulting or disrespectful on their own. It's the meaning we attach to them that carries the additional burden, so if an acronym carries the same weight as the words themselves the answer is they can be just as bad.

Clown Apocalypse5/24/2015, 8:08:48 PM1 votes

I tell salty people to stfu. Generally if I have to tell you to stfu you are trying to have some sort of flame war with me that would require entirely more typing than a simple stfu requires. They keep talking I mute them and tell them now you have no choice but to stfu. Then I continue playing. It probably aint the nicest thing to say but you gotta look at the situation. Now if top lanes crying about getting camped, and you tell him buy wards, and he says stfu....that's a bit different. But if your jungler decides to come gank your lane and turret dive and calls you a noob cuz he dies and you didn't turret dive with him....by all means tell him to stfu. Theres a difference between being toxic and being assertive.