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Encountering lots and lots of sexist and homophobic players. What happened???

Krys Star·4/11/2019, 8:58:14 PM·3 votes·1,898 views

In the past three days, I've had so many people attack me for either being a "shit girl gamer" or a "gay boy." The amount of sexism and homophobia I'm encountering lately is ridiculous, and I've had to report the same person twice in the span of three days after encountering him again and having to put up with his hateful comments. Does Riot not punish players anymore, or are they tolerant of sexism and homophobia now???

Like, I get not everyone is going to get punished the second they get reported, but I've had to report the same guy twice for it, and I've yet to receive an instant feedback report from any of my reports. People are becoming increasingly toxic, and I feel like it's because they know they can get away with it. I can't count how many times people say, "go ahead and report me, it wont do anything," and sad to say they're probably right. I've only seen an instant feedback report once in the past two months I've been playing since I came back to League after a three month break, and an eight month break before that. I almost don't want to play League anymore if Riot's going to be tolerant of hateful, toxic behavior.

The saddest part is, I'm seeing it in abundance on Overwatch too. Toxicity is growing by the year, and it's only spreading from game to game. Companies are too lenient and light in their punishment, that players aren't learning from their toxic behaviors and will only know that they can either get away with it, or get off easy.

7 Comments

Dorans Pants4/11/2019, 11:37:05 PM3 votes

how do you manage to encounter this form of insults so consistently?

I am playing way too much and hardly ever find players making comments like that. Ofc there is flame everywhere: "trash jgler no ganks", " is useless", "gg report that feeder/troll", question mark pings and the obligatory "kys", but I have yet to encounter this extreme homophobia/sexism which is apparently omnipresent in league.

I wonder if it´s depending on your rank and or your region.

Telephone Booth4/12/2019, 1:41:17 AM2 votes

New generation pushback against the PC culture that their parents created. Thats how it goes. When i was young, my parents wore tight pants, so i wore baggy pants. Now that my generation of baggy pants wearers are parents, kids wear tight pants. Its the nature of society. Also, kids are brutal lol. Im pretty sure theyre getting punished, since chat offenses are like the easiest thing to detect, but I guess I cant realistically know.

Also, my experience is quite different from yours. I rarely see that kind of chat. If you play bad, or off meta, or get snippy in chat, and argue with people, or even call people toxic, youre definitely more likely to see that kind of chat. Ive never once called someone toxic. And I never contribute to arguements in chat, so people tend not to fuck with me.

Though, just last weekend, i talked to someone who said "nice name" (i get that a lot, despite having the dumbest name ever) and the conversation ended with "i got a joke for you... what do they call a telephone booth? A f_ggot" lol. So any interaction with people tends to result in some form of toxicity lol. Its just people trying to get a rise out of others for their own entertainment. Since i rarely interact, i rarely see it.

kushinshin4/11/2019, 9:03:36 PM1 votes

https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/7/18070340/riot-games-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-class-action

https://kotaku.com/current-and-former-employees-sue-riot-games-for-gender-1830262786

Their community is an embodiment of the company. The only toxicity they allow/protect is their own.

Icy Hot Shoto4/11/2019, 9:43:27 PM1 votes

If you truly think they're not getting punished then send in a support ticket with any information you can provide, including a link to the match history. However it's possible they did get chat restricted, as I don't know what they said so I can't say if they used anything that would've been considered hate speech. Note that you don't always get the notification someone was punished. And I can confirm it still works, as a few nights ago me and a friend got the notification someone we reported got punished.

Sexism doesn't usually happen unless you're giving them something to use against you. If you're not giving any info about yourself such as gender or real name, it may be your summoner name as Star is seen as a feminine name, so any troll/toxic player will latch onto that just to get a rise out of you. Don't respond to them, mute them, report after game.

People being homophobic is actually more common in online games then sexism is, because people refuse to grow up and realize it's part of life. So you seeing that isn't actually that abnormal sadly. However if anyone is being homophobic, it's usually a straight 14 day ban since the most common words used are hate speech which isn't tolerated here.

So again, if you feel they're not being punished you can send in a support ticket about the player(s), and the you don't always get the "this player was punished" notification.

DaoMuShin4/12/2019, 12:53:30 AM1 votes

Riot generally does not punish anyone unless they use specific words/phrases and then they leave the punishing to their automated system. Which technically only pairs you with the offender more often, based on how often you report them.

I have frequently been paired with the same racist/homophobic trolls 3..4..sometimes even 5 games in a row. When i report them every time.

Ph03n1xb1rd4/12/2019, 11:24:56 AM1 votes

While this is not OK, how the heck do you get these comments?

I've never been told any of these during the years i played this game? Do you start the game writing: "Hello bois, im a gamer grill!?" or what? It's simply unbelievable that you consistently see this behavior, if you are not triggering it with your own actions....

and I've yet to receive an instant feedback report from any of my reports.

The feedback system is totally inconsistent, you should not rely on that, in general you should have no way to know if somebody was punished or not. (BTW they are still punishing people...)

and having to put up with his hateful comments.

Why didnt you mute him?