Riot's Double Standard?

The Candylandman··1 votes·703 views

I been watching a lot of LCS games lately and older ones on YouTube. Why is it that the announcers that work for Riot can trash talk and make fun of people playing the game and laugh it off and yet if we used any of the same quotes,or or trash talk in a game we can lose our account? It seems to me this is a double standard on Riot's part that they allow their employees and LCS players do this but punish the rest of the community for doing it.

I mean you will delete a post if someone calls another person Trash but yet You can see in the video Riot is instigating it and at the very same time you will receive an email stating that you are not welcome back in the community because of the things you say. So basically if a Riot employee or LCS player does it for ratings it's ok but if we do it on the forums or in a game we are a horrible person and should be banned or our post deleted?

dou·ble stand·ard noun noun: double standard; plural noun: double standards

a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups.

Not saying trash talk is a mature thing, but in competitive sports and game sometimes people do it for laughs or just having fun but yet I was to say " Hey ashe, you're trash" it's considered toxic, but if a LCS Player says it or Riot Employee agrees with it, it's just fun and games?

Or is it because we just say it in-game is the problem? If so Why do you ban people's account instead of just banning them from chat? If in-game chat is the issue isn't that where the punishment should be?

I mean I can get the same punished by joking around in chat and someone getting offended as a person who cheats, hacks or does something 10x worse. The punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime especially when you promote it on LCS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxS76Dk3Rk4

Practice what you preach Riot

14 Comments

Deep Terror Nami3 votes

There's a difference between people that know each other talking shit, and doing it to strangers you don't know and have no idea how they see it. If those people appreciated your behavior then they wouldn't report it, now would they? It's not Riot that is deciding you should be punished, but the players reporting you.

The Candylandman1 votes

It's a double standard no matter how you slice.. you can't sit there and say we are against this behavior while at the same time promoting it to millions of players.. rather it's in game or not with or without friends.

The Candylandman1 votes

It is Riot's automated system that gives the punishment not players, players simple flag your account for review with reports. So you saying if I said Corki sucks, talking about the enemy team Corki and my team mate Corki assumed I was talking about him he is fully right in reporting me as toxic because he assumed wrong and the enemy Corki never even seen me type it?

Fail logic.

Deep Terror Nami3 votes

They automated system punishes them because players are reporting it. If they don't report it, they won't get punished. And it doesn't matter if the person you're insulting can see it or not, that doesn't mean the people that can are ok with it. You say fail logic, I say you're trying to justify toxicity.

While a false positive triggering a punishment is possible, the system is extremely accurate in weeding out false reports, and if you are the one person that was wrongly punished you can always request a manual review to get it removed.

Instead of sitting around looking for reasons to talk shit to other players, just don't do it if they don't want to hear it. As I said, if they want to hear it they will not report you and you won't get punished.

The Candylandman1 votes

Ok you basically repeated what I said.. and contradicted yourself..

first you said... "It's not Riot that is deciding you should be punished" then you said "They automated system punishes them" which is Riot. I know exactly how the system works

Your logic is flawed, come up with something intelligent to respond with instead of just being a kiss ass while ignoring all logic and ignoring the topic at hand. I see you on the forums troll other posts, so I highly doubt anyone will take anything you say serious especially me.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Whatever helps you sleep.

The Candylandman1 votes

Common sense works wonders.

Yumifries1 votes

They aren't ingame either, haha This is similar to other sports with pregame banter.

The Candylandman1 votes

It's still promoting the same crap they ban people for rather it's in-game or not. If the problem is because they say it in-game then why is the player not banned from chat? Why is a player's account get the same punishment as someone who hacks or cheats at the game?

A double standard is still a double standard no matter how you slice it. If they are so AGAINST trash talking team mates & other teams why would they promote it to millions of players.

The Candylandman1 votes

Here comes the down votes from players who are either trolls, lack common sense or like to kiss Riot's ass. Either way i'm 100% correct on this subject and no one can prove me wrong, if you are going to preach that trash talking team mates and enemy team players is against what Riot stands for don't promote it to millions of people that it's ok rather it's in game or not it's a double standard.

The Candylandman1 votes

Amazing you read the comments and not the OP. Care to make an opinion on the subject at hand or just here to troll like everyone else does and de-rail the valid point I made.

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

No I read your post.

I just didn't feel the need to reiterate what was already explained quite excellently

Legacian1 votes

You've got two types of people who respond to stuff like this:

  1. The kind who know it isn't going to go anywhere so they just mark it as some brat complaining. and
  2. The people who just quite frankly don't care because they do it in-game all the time and never get any consequences for it.

My advice? The League community is what it is, and isn't going to change anytime soon. It is and always will be one of the most bad-mannered and toxic gaming communities simply for the fact of the matter that it's in the nature of the game, and because Riot has a shitty system for regulating it. Don't expect people to back you up here. I've learned it isn't going to happen. The same person who says "Tribunal needs some serious work" will be just as quick as to jump on your thread and dish out pure HATRED as to why your ideas and concepts for it are complete and utter garbage without giving any insightful reasons as to why. The boards are pretty much a waste of time. You'd have better luck looking into threads that have been upvoted a lot and using those as models.

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