A glaring problem with the community

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0 tolerance catchphrases already exist and they are punished all the time...

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Wow, they banned the N word and kys! Good job Riot. No really, good job. But that's not enough. Any form of toxicity should be banned. THAT is zero tolerance. And the population IS decreasing. Check twitch numbers for LoL. LCS is hurting in particular. Check Youtube. It's so easy to look it up for yourself.

I think the age of the game as well as the popularity plays a major role.

As the game gets older more people are going to feel more invested (thus take losses more personally) and the skill gap between players will increase.

Take counter-strike as an example. A high skill-ceiling game where being fresh to the game is just going to lead to you getting your face ground into the pavement since most people who currently play the game are the people who have been playing counter strike for years. This leads to quite a bit of friction between teammates when someone is really under-performing. The gap in knowledge and skill between players are much more pronounced on old games compared to new games.

Because league is popular there are quite a few players that are playing the game, not because they are necessarily choosing league because it looks like the most fun out of all other games, but instead are playing it because their friends are playing and it's something for them to talk about with their friends (the WoW effect).

People hate looking unskilled in front of their friends. This results in greater pressure to out-perform randoms on the internet (and more pressure to blame any inadequacy on a third-party).