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Mute Vote?

Jelloine··1 votes·457 views

Recently, I played in a ranked game with my duo queue buddy. We were the first two picks and decided to lock in Lee Sin and Zed. The fourth pick decided to troll just because I went mid and he didn't get the lane he wanted. Now, I know there are trolls like this EVERYWHERE. You probably had one of these in your latest games. Honestly, I'm quite used to this now. Heaven forbid, if there weren't any trolls and AFKs we wouldn't be in the ELO we are today.

Anyways, I did what I usually do, ask the enemy team to report our troll player who declared himself as troll in champion select so that he can get punished. Unsurprisingly, the enemy team disagreed to this and ended being against us. Haha, now we have even more trolls. In the end, it didn't impact me that I got demoted, or that my friend's account got permanently banned, but the fact that the troll joined another game, and continued to flame me by friending me after the game. What a time to be alive.

Lets be real, do you guys use the mute button a lot? I do, especially with toxic players, but sometimes communication is the key to winning games. Sadly, people abuse the communication system. Whether that's spamming pings because you made a mistake or by flaming so much that all the cuss words from the dictionary have been typed.

My question is, why don't they make a voting system to mute a player on the team so that the team won't have to deal with them. Of course, people wont mute a teammate who encourages others, takes summoner spell timers, and shot calls. This would be for the trolls who endlessly ping till they're restricted, then continue once they can. The voting system would happen like this:

  1. A player on the team types: "/mute'summoner name'"
  2. Mute 'Summoner Name' window pops up, much like a surrender vote.
  3. Since 4 people would be voting against 1 person, it would have to be a 3 to 1 majority rule.
  4. Once the player gets muted, the team will not be able to hear their pings nor chat.
  5. The player who is muted will not know any of this happening, and will continue to ping, and flame without feed back

This would:

  1. Ease the tension between trolls and innocent players
  2. Allow teammates who aren't able to just mute players, to mute them.
  3. Allow ping spams to stop.
  4. Hopefully stop innocent people from being toxic as well.
  5. Hopefully allow the team to pull a victory.

Of course, this will not stop the troll from dying on purpose, or coming into your lane and taking all your creeps, but it will make a huge impact by allowing others to concentrate. I rather have a silent troll than a troll who is toxic. What do you guys think?

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I did what I usually do, ask the enemy team to report our troll player

Report brigading is harassment. Do not ask others to report for you. Not only does mass reporting have no greater effect than a single valid report, asking others to report is a punishable offense. Punishments are calculated per match, not per report.

Reports are a form of voting for what kind of behavior you personally do not want in the community. Let each person decide for themselves what they do or do not want to see. Asking the opponents to report something they didn't witness is particularly bad, because they have no way to know if you're lying. Them retaliating by reporting you instead is justified (harassing you is not, of course).

Why would they need to vote to mute someone? If someone doesn't want to listen to a person, they have their own mute button. They hold all the power to silence them on a personal level. The only reason there would be a vote is if you wanted to take that power out of one of the player's hands. That makes no sense.

Jelloine1 votes

I understand that it is a harassment, and will stop enforcing it. However, you must also know that people dont necessarily use the mute button, furthermore even know how to. They simply argue back, hoping that the troll would stop. This system would give the person a reminder that they can mute this player. Also, just muting a player doesn't mute their never stopping pings after a fail flash, death, or bad game play. All of these things would lead to tilt, more anger, and a less enjoyable game.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Muting an individual's pings is definitely something with a lot of use, but as for the people that don't know how to mute, just tell them! Informing someone where the mute button is won't be punishable unless you decide to throw insults in there too.

As for their bad gameplay, being bad isn't reason to punish a player, and muting them won't stop that. They'll simply lose more games than you and your MMR's won't be able to match you together eventually (hell, the chance of seeing him twice even if your MMR remains the same is slim to none).

Jelloine1 votes

Indeed educating others about using the mute button is amazing but people tend to have dignity when it comes to this. They have the mindset that muting someone and ignoring them shows their weakness. I personally haven't thought of it like that but many players I have played with and even my friends will simply not mute them. However, maybe it would be different if the whole team, publicly were willing to mute a person.

And of course bad game play is nothing to judge, we all started from rock bottom and climbed to where we are now. Sometimes we have bad days, meaning bad game play. But what i'm solely talking about are the "trolls" who verbally say that they are trolls before a game even starts.

Now we look at it from a trolls point of view. What is their objective? To make their teammates life miserable (or at least that particular game). Alright, what fun would it be if no one responded to him, or reacted to his "trolling"? I feel that this would impact the possibly "horrible 20 minutes" that you must wait to surrender, and decrease the amount of trolls. All they want is their team mates getting mad. All they want to hear is them cussing, playing worse, and in the end have an excuse to report them. However, if even BOTH sides were muted (so that troll cant hear the other 4 and the other 4 cant hear the troll) the game may take an unexpected uphill.

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