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Dear players with negative attitudes,

Selasce·5/6/2015, 1:57:46 AM·3 votes·376 views

I've always wondered... what does raging do for you guys? It's always boggled me. I've been playing LoL for 2 years, so I've seen some pretty crazy chats going on. But there are some people who just... can't stop raging. Why?

I am making this topic because just yesterday, about 10 minutes after a match started it was a thunderstorm outside and I had got absolutely HORRIBLE lag. I let the team know that I was lagging, all was fine. I freeze up during a team fight and then I got raged at, you know, the typical "useless, you didn't help, you let me die, etc" type of stuff. So I apologized and said "Sorry, but I told you I was lagging. I'm trying the best I can with this lag because I don't want to afk and ruin the game". Instead of accepting the apology like a decent human being (Who am I kidding... this is the internet), this player continued to keep being more and more negative. To make a long story that I don't feel like typing short, this player was soon writing me essays about... Well I'm not sure, I stop reading rage at one point. But, I saw a lot of asterisks so I'm pretty sure it was cursing involved.

So my question is, what does raging do for some of you guys? Yes, I know we're all human and need to vent sometimes, no one can say they've NEVER gotten annoyed during a match. But to sit there and constantly cyber bully (Yes, that's what it is) someone who can't help something, such as lag, serves no purpose. Cursing someone out isn't going to fix their internet, take a loss away from your record, or help the team work together. We all win some, we all lose some.

If you have someone who is lagging on your team, raging at them is ONLY going to have a negative consequence. Now not only do you have a lagging teammate, now you have a pissed AND lagging teammate. Them being annoyed is going to lead to worse performance ingame, and if they miraculously do stop lagging (which isn't uncommon) now you've just put bad blood between the team. Does that make you feel good about yourselves? Is being hateful bullies what's cool? To make things worse, many people who curse others out will quickly try to flip it around once they get a response. I've even had people rage at me, and then once I told them "I don't care that you're mad, it's not going to help us win so save the negativity" they then tried to make it seem as though I'm the one being negative. (Weren't you just cursing me out telling me to kill myself about 5 posts ago??)

Anyways, what does raging do for you guys? I can understand venting, but what else? (Btw, sorry for the length of this, I tried to condense it as much as I can. No trolls please. If you don't care enough to read the whole thing then don't care enough to type a response)

10 Comments

Alljoy5/6/2015, 2:26:04 AM3 votes

I'm not sure if you're genuinely interested in the inner mechanics behind human aggression.. or if this is some rhetorical, and presumably cathartic post to vent about that incident.

TryMucinex5/6/2015, 2:31:08 AM2 votes

I'm on your side. I never curse, even in reality. I do not try to provoke any sort of negativity, and I try my best to remember to put emoticons to prevent any assumptions of what I post may be rude. I never intend to be rude. When I communicate, the majority of the time I type something, I erased before I "Enter" because it may not be helpful or useful in the upcoming times. This is usually in response to anything like "Why so bad?", "why play top if your so bad?" or "stupid jungle, why go clarity?". While you shouldn't completely ignore all questions, it's up to your judgement whether what you're going to type is for the better. Not neutral, as it usually just prolong conversations, which then may swerve to a bad/good result.

To your questions, we have to understand there are different perspectives within us. In this case, I'll mark two simple views in this, I supposed.

First off, players like us. -There's no benefits in raging. -It'll cause negativity and only such things. No beneficial results will arise from provoking arguments. -Understand that I cannot easily reform the problems that anger you at the moments. -Keep calm, as unless I somehow fix the problems, nothing will be solved through insults.

Simple.

For those that tend to vents...(I don't think this is a good example or something. Sorry.) -I'm tired and angry. I went through this so many times. -You need to not play the game if these problems are going to happen. Please check before gaming. -Solve your problems, and we're good. Still your fault on whatever happened then, though. -I don't care about what you think. I'm sick of you and I need to just type away. -Typing "I understand. Keep safe and we'll wait for your recovery from any problems you're suffering" will not help the game. Just afk.

Sorry, I don't have much better thoughts on the thoughts of ragers.

My thoughts about why they do it...

People on the internet pretty much don't care. I guess that's the main reason that leads to these actions that we all see on the internet. They insult, trash-talk, curse, caps-lock, discriminate, or harass anytime they can. I'm sure, and probably others as well, they are not going to do the same in real life. It's seemingly uncommon that any harms are going to be done when ragers do their things on the internet. They don't care about what others think, unless it's reality. Out in the real world, the strangers, the public, I'm positive most tends to suppress their feelings, thoughts, and actions, as otherwise may lead to criminal offense and stimulation of their self-consciousness.

On games, it's quite simple that their purposes are to win competitively and proceed to higher rankings. It's their free time. We wouldn't like our free time to be ruined. To them, bad players are the barriers to a perfect free time session. With the bad performances all around happening repetitively, one is bound to become frustrated. Therefore, acknowledging that no harms may reflect upon themselves or serious ones among other, they feel free to project all their thoughts and whatever on the web.

Personally, I don't care unless it begins to spread throughout my team. That's prolonging the anger issues and the game's outcome. I do not get bothered at all. I never had to /ignore, I never respond rudely nor respond to an insult/question/statement that will only bring useless answers.

Now, following how negativity can spread, usually, a bystander, a quiet player, may step in or respond to a rager. If the bystander ever starts to respond with a seemingly rude remark to an insult or something, I immediately tell the person to stop typing and just ignore him, the same thing I always do. The problem is, they type "ok". A minute later, after barrages of trash-talk, the bystander responds to the rager again. Clearly he/she did not /ignore.... Now, we have another player who's getting bothered, becoming a rager him or herself, or a victim. I see this all the time when I try to convince them

Bleh, that's about it. Sorry for any confusion or insufficient purposes of my post. Riven

lofi n chillhop5/6/2015, 4:54:57 AM1 votes

just use the mute tool. it saves me a lot of bad feels. makes a shitty game fun again