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Mute Vote?

Jelloine·1/12/2016, 5:53:58 AM·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 Nami1/12/2016, 5:59:46 AM1 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.