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Riot's Behavior toward Players

Nightsky Pirate·12/14/2019, 10:56:04 AM·4 votes·2,397 views

Riot has been increasingly sensitive. They've been trying to eliminate negativity, but have gone at it half-heartedly. Folks in chat are often reluctant to say anything in fear of the verbal ban-bot's vacuity (how dare you flame the NPCs). There is no punishment for intentionally feeding once every few games that you lose. So what's the latest in what might affect Riot's behavior?

How about paying $10,000,000 to female employees for "not being included in the bro community," eh?

“This settlement is an important step forward and demonstrates our commitment to living up to our values and to making Riot an inclusive environment for the industry’s best talent,” Hixson stated. “As we said back in August when we announced the settlement, we're honoring our commitment to finding the best and most expeditious way for all Rioters, and Riot, to move forward and heal. Over the past year, we've made substantial progress toward evolving our culture and will continue this work as we strive to be the most inclusive company in gaming. Our transformation over the 15 months has been massive and we're just getting started.”

There's nothing wrong with the women winning this settlement, or that Riot is moving in this direction. The point is that this is likely to make Riot more sensitive in general. This side effect can impact players- namely those who are under the hammer's shadow. Imagine that you're playing any sport and the referee just had his work friend fired because of a similar situation, or was reprimanded for being part of said 'bro culture'.

If you have any sense, you'd be on your best behavior while being watched by that referee for a while. Since the current, first line referee is a program watching all your games with said people behind it... you better act like it. Or, you know, preemptive mute-all.

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Kei14312/14/2019, 1:36:48 PM7 votes

The only people that are afraid to use chat are the ones that don't understand the rules.

If you don't harass and insult others, you can use chat without problems.

Also, anecdotally speaking, the people accusing of others for intentional feeding typically have a wrong set of lens put on. As in they falsely accuse others of inting and instead, harass others for it.

DuskDaUmbreon12/14/2019, 12:20:15 PM5 votes

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Riot has been increasingly sensitive.

"Sensitive" and "getting rid of people who are jackasses to others" are not the same thing. And, as far as I'm aware, nothing's changed in the last 4 years.

They've been trying to eliminate negativity, but have gone at it half-heartedly.

Idk, based on what you say in the rest of the post you seem to say otherwise

Folks in chat are often reluctant to say anything in fear of the verbal ban-bot's vacuity (how dare you flame the NPCs).

Hi. I easily talk the most in every game I'm in. I even flame people now and then, although I generally keep that fairly rare. Not banned, not even a single chat restrict. The only reason you have to be remotely afraid of talking is if you're actually toxic or you're grossly misinformed.

There is no punishment for intentionally feeding once every few games that you lose.

[X] to doubt. Slow to punish=!Does not punish. Most, if not all, cases of inting require manual review. Given the number of people reported daily for inting because of trivial shit, this takes a long time.

So what's the latest in what might affect Riot's behavior?

How about paying $10,000,000 to female employees for "not being included in the bro community," eh?

I can't actually think of a single thing that's changed since I've started. Certainly nothing in the last few weeks.

“This settlement is an important step forward and demonstrates our commitment to living up to our values and to making Riot an inclusive environment for the industry’s best talent,” Hixson stated. “As we said back in August when we announced the settlement, we're honoring our commitment to finding the best and most expeditious way for all Rioters, and Riot, to move forward and heal. Over the past year, we've made substantial progress toward evolving our culture and will continue this work as we strive to be the most inclusive company in gaming. Our transformation over the 15 months has been massive and we're just getting started.”

There's nothing wrong with the women winning this settlement, or that Riot is moving in this direction. The point is that this is likely to make Riot more sensitive in general. This side effect can impact players- namely those who are under the hammer's shadow. Imagine that you're playing any sport and the referee just had his work friend fired because of a similar situation, or was reprimanded for being part of said 'bro culture'.

I...fail to see the actual correlation. Your argument would maybe make more sense if another friend got fired for not doing his job properly, but, like...It's honestly a shit analogy. And if you're not toxic in the first place, it doesn't matter.

rastarogue12/14/2019, 3:31:59 PM3 votes

You're argument seems to be " riot is becoming less of an asshole to women, so they'll be more agressive in punishing people", which is not directly correlated or supported and it seems like you would rather they stay jerks to women so that people can be jerks in chat?

It's not very clear what you are trying to say