Why is toxicity in non-English tolerated?

notice me Sin pi·Oct 14, 2016·6 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

ZielmannOct 14, 20162 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.

notice me Sin piOct 14, 20161 votes

i really hope it's just a coincidence (as u said) that I had not gotten any pop ups from reporting foreign language toxicity, but chances are too slim tho

Morality CoachOct 15, 20162 votes

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

IA9hRfpP5qOct 14, 20161 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.

69469238DEL1Oct 14, 20161 votes

That line is so deep lmao "you cant fight what you don't undertand"

notice me Sin piOct 14, 20161 votes

so you are implying that number of reports matter (since only the ones who understand the language would report, and therefore foreign language toxicity would be less reported).

LoL community was lied about "report only flags them" thing :O

DrCyanideOct 14, 20161 votes

The frequency of the reports + the severity of the offense is what matters.

If it's not as severe a statement in their language, they're likely to get off because the frequency that they're reported will be drastically lower than someone who says the same types of things in a language others understand.

notice me Sin piOct 14, 20161 votes

genuine question, not argument: what determines the severity?

DrCyanideOct 14, 20161 votes

To the best of my knowledge, Racist, Homophobic, or Death Threat type statements are what's considered most severe, and can get you to skip punishment tiers (so if you would have gotten a 10 game chat restriction, you now have a 25 game chat restriction instead. If you're at 25 games chat restriction, permaban).

I don't know if there's a "middle class" of severity.

Surr20plzOct 14, 20161 votes

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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.

Oh yes we can.

CatastropOct 14, 20161 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.

Surr20plzOct 14, 20161 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.

notice me Sin piOct 14, 20161 votes

dont need to, im multi-lingual

Telephone BoothOct 14, 20161 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.

Kei143Oct 14, 20161 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.