why ping muting is a bad idea (rant)

SecondAirbane·5/5/2017, 1:40:06 AM·3 votes·1,303 views

here's a few reasons why ping mute is a bad idea if you thought people didnt listen to pings before wait until you see the implementation of ping muting they wont even hear your pings let alone be able to see them on the map watch when a bronze illegally buys a diamond account and screws the diamonds over by thinking hes a pro challenger with some bright ideas up in there(aka muting an idea he doesnt like) no communication when you get everything muted creating mass amounts of toxicity(if you thought toxicity was bad wait until you see it in a few patches)

a troll haven basically just a heaven for trolls

if i think of any more ill rant more on here

27 Comments

Eetheart5/5/2017, 1:42:47 AM5 votes

When people stop spamming the Missing ping on their own teammates (thus using it for the completely wrong reason than what it was intended for), then I'll agree. But until then, screw that.

AeroWaffle5/5/2017, 1:44:34 AM3 votes

The only time that they won't see your pings only if they mute your pings.

Will some people mute everyone's pings at the very start of the game? Sure. But certainly not everyone. And I believe that people who mute everyone at the start of the game had no intention of listening to pings anyway, so it makes little difference.

watch when a bronze illegally buys a diamond account and screws the diamonds over by thinking hes a pro challenger with some bright ideas up in there(aka muting an idea he doesnt like)

The problem isn't with the muting feature here, it's with the person that illegally bought the account. If they're the type of person to mute any idea he doesn't like, he wasn't going to listen to the idea anyway even if it was in the chat.

Michael7025/5/2017, 1:51:43 AM3 votes

I have had games where people are spam pinging me the entire game for no reason. Yes, I want the option to mute them entirely.

Soulhavok5/5/2017, 7:55:41 AM2 votes

I believe that it should not be a full ping mute option but a limited option. If you "mute" the annoying persons pings it should disable there pings to only 1 every 10 secs or longer. That way some form of communication is still there.

Sarutobi5/5/2017, 9:19:19 AM2 votes

To an extent I kinda agree. I think the worse though is people who mute chat/ping then will complain that we didn't Mia/ping Mia. I already have this happen now with chat. I ping at least 3 times when I sense an enemy is missing and people still complain when I don't do it enough.

Now with being to mute any and all communications I can see people bitching and moaning in chat because we are alerting them when they mute everything. It's going to be annoying towards those types of people.

YerroFever5/5/2017, 3:25:33 AM2 votes

I'm all for communicating with pings for MIA's, warnings about where wards are or possible danger zones because they think they saw the enemy, etc...

I'm not OK with communicating your frustration at someone. Player 1 pings Player 2 incessantly.... and unfortunately player 3, player 4, and player 5 also get pinged incessantly but they're not the targets.

You want to talk about bad ideas? Pissing 4 people off because you want 1 person angry? Geez...

MrToozeIgo10/3/2017, 2:08:37 PM1 votes

Yea Iv been looking for a post like this for ages. Instead of muting all pings it should reduce the rate you receive pings from that player, meaning if they once annoyed you in gane with obnoxious pings when they actually have usefully information like MIA or a danger ping in a bush they are about to face check you'll know about it.

Iv had this so much as a support main, I feel like the more information I can give to my adc about the surrounding area the more they can focus on lane. But every once in a while I get a adc with the worst attitude and thinks he can run the lane by himself, he goes ahead and mutes my chat and pings. My god the amount of pinged enemys that they walk into and die then complain in all chat 'shit support' 'no help' all because he muted my pings for no good reason.

This applies to everyone who mutes at the start of the game and when someone is beingl annoying in chat, in my opinion pings are almost as important as vision.

Kei1435/5/2017, 4:37:52 AM1 votes

the bronzie is going to ruin diamond games with or without pings.

Packun Flower5/5/2017, 5:13:57 AM1 votes

You just mad because you cant ping spam an ally when they make a mistake now.

Oh well. Better find other ways to tilt your allies now, if you can. [slayer-jinx-wink]

Mizuki Zahra5/5/2017, 3:47:52 PM1 votes

pings are soo annoying that I set my alarm tones to ping spamming, now I actually get up at 6 am for work lol