I'm toxic.

Razzola·10/23/2014, 7:23:03 AM·3 votes·1,050 views

I am toxic. I am undoubtedly a stain on this community for I can not withhold my vulgarities whenever I am paired with intentional feeders and blatant baddies in game.

With this said, I have a suggestion to riot:

Create an option to self-mute yourself before you queue up for game. This would function just like the profanity filter in that you check it in your settings, and once you join a game (not including the pre-game / post-game chat), you can not speak aside from using smart pings (and can't re-enable chat until your game is over).

I would use this.

I lack self-control to not say anything when my temper is boiling in ranked matches, and so often, I say things I should not, which results in me getting various bans and chat restrictions. However, if I were able to self-mute, I wouldn't be able to say anything at all; thus, I would never have this problem again.

Thoughts?

7 Comments

Tkerst10/23/2014, 7:39:29 AM2 votes

You should learn to self-regulate your douche-ness. I want to talk shit to my team all the time, but realize it will do nothing. I compliment their wins, and say nothing to their fuck ups. "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all." Just say it in your head, and get on with it.

disregardable10/23/2014, 8:11:14 AM1 votes

Save it for post game screen. That's what everyone does.

N080DY10/23/2014, 1:07:41 PM1 votes

my friend is exactly the same way, he ends up muting everyone on the team but even then sometimes that doesnt stop him from saying toxic things.

muting yourself can make it difficult to communicate when you really need to.

Anomander10/23/2014, 1:49:10 PM1 votes

I am sorry you lack self control. Might just need to work on that as self control is COMPLETELY within your control. It might take a while to learn to have it but it is a behavioral mechanism that an individual needs to learn in order to function within society.

I see no reason why they should add a self mute button as it already exists in the OPTION of not typing. If you cannot control yourself enough to prevent yourself from typing I would avoid the internet and people completely as you need to seriously work on it.

Razzola10/23/2014, 7:21:16 PM1 votes

Anomander, I appreciate your philosophical feedback; however, humans are emotional creatures as opposed to rational ones. While the rational side of me would say, "I don't need to respond to these people," when emotions run high--especially in ranked game when a lot more is at stake--we all do careless things.

It's easy to say self control is within your control, but it's a lot more difficult than it seems.

And I don't just say all douchey things for the record. When my team performs well, I throw out a lot of "good job"s because I know the effect of positive reinforcement.

But I lack self-control for intentional feeders. It is something I have been working on, as I had to complete 35 wins in draft mode to get back to ranked, but even with that, I still find it hard to self-regulate.

No8oDY, interesting information. I might stop saying "good job" when people get kills haha.

Razzola10/23/2014, 7:37:30 PM1 votes

Also, let's be realistic. It's the 21st century. Who can avoid people completely? I am not a man of the wild, living in a state of nature and living off the land, isolated from the rest of humanity. There's no way to avoid people. And here in western society, it's impossible to avoid the internet as well.

You make me sound like someone who lacks self-control in all aspects of my life such that I can't help but curse people out arbitrarily--I don't have tourette's syndrome.

In fact, the only medium through which I engage in vulgarities is competitive video games. I'm a very passive, calm guy in person.

Thus, adding a tool to self-regulate my own chat would be beneficial, and it would also reinforce self-control because 1. I am in control of turning on the mute feature. and 2. Even when I want to talk, I can't, and that would reinforce this behavior.