Why is toxicity in non-English tolerated?

notice me Sin pi·10/14/2016, 9:04:48 PM·6 votes·938 views

thruout my games, I have seen a lot of toxic people. And when I do, I report them depending on how toxic they are. While I occasionally see "thank you for the report" pop up for reporting a toxic player, I have never seen a single pop up for reporting those who call others all kinds of nasty words out there behind another language (korean, spanish, chinese, german, etc.) (by the way im aware of the fact that only the people who played with that toxic person in his last game gets the pop up*) I see that the probability of reporting tens of them and not having received a single notification from it is definitely NOT 0.000%, but i believe it is still low enough for me to draw a conclusion that toxicity in non-English goes unpunished.

16 Comments

Morality Coach10/15/2016, 5:14:22 AM2 votes

You can be toxic in plain English too as long as you're creative. Dumb system

Zielmann10/14/2016, 9:10:21 PM2 votes

It's not. You can report for, and players will be punished for, offensive chat in any language. Well, probably just most. The big ones. LoL is a global game, so they had to build a feature that would work for toxicity globally, after all.

Honestly, I wouldn't sweat it with the pop-up thing. They're not all that common (I have yet to see one). Probably just a coincidence that those people simply aren't at a point where one more report might lead them to a punishment when you report them.

Surr20plz10/14/2016, 9:29:48 PM1 votes

If you see the name of your champ come up amidst their foreign language and you're not doing well. Report them for verbal.

Telephone Booth10/14/2016, 9:34:15 PM1 votes

I think it's combination of coincidence and the fact that they largely go unreported because most people who play on NA only know English. They may get reported occasionally but it's not often enough to get punished. Riot is somewhat lenient on it unless you are toxic consistently.

Kei14310/14/2016, 10:53:09 PM1 votes

understand that the system is not a "word trigger database", but a system that "learns as things get reported".

When you have enough players reporting for a certain subject, I'm going to use "you're a bronze" as example, the system catches on that the certain phrase is not accepted amongst the community, thus will punish people using that phrase.

But keep in mind, if only 2% (another example) of the players report for "you're a bronze" , then "you're a bronze" will be flagged as a false report instead, cos the community doesn't think it's offensive.

With this, the system can adapt and evolve to new words and caters to a specific community.

IA9hRfpP5q10/14/2016, 9:05:40 PM1 votes

Most Americans only know 1 language. While the rest of the of the world is usually bilingual.

You cant fight what you do not understand.

Nice Fellow10/15/2016, 10:01:15 AM1 votes

You know English, korean, German, Spanish, AND Chinese? Because unless you know those languages how do you know if they're being toxic?

Catastrop10/14/2016, 9:10:00 PM1 votes

We can't report what we don't understand. Hell, I've cussed people out in my native creole dialect without them even knowing what I was saying.