As much as I condemn the Tumblrinas here

They are outnumbered 10:1. And of those 10, 8 are assholes trying to defend blatantly horrible behavior in their threads. And then the remaining 2 are split between people who act neutrally and those who turn the case of the 8 into an argument about free speech and sensitivity to words on the internet.

I really wish these boards weren't so polarizing. Part of it I think comes from chatlog posts. On one hand, one obtains really good feedback for people who are trying to reform. But on the other, it gives people attention they don't need. It's a form of reinforcement of negative behavior on these boards, and it breeds both resentment and vindictiveness in the audience when a permanently banned player is posting their chat logs. They almost always deserve it; they don't want to reform. All they want is to make a show.

Meh, the genie's out of the bottle now so no use griping about that.

The second problem is while Riot acknowledges this fact, the community turns a blind eye: a lot of the vindictive behavior on these boards and in game when someone is acting badly is just as if not more toxic than the primary offender. They're either oblivious to their own bullshit or don't care and believe they are justified.

Just as an observation though, I have never been banned for toxicity in game (forum banned 3-4 times for trigger words though). However, I was always seeing toxicity everywhere. Then I went into therapy for my SAD and OCPD this past August and all the toxicity just disappeared. Unless Riot can confirm some huge dropoff in toxicity between September '15 to now, then the variable is my perception of other people's behavior.

So when I see threads here convinced that virtually all of their games are filled with toxicity, I'm always curious to how sensitive these people are, just like I was.