Ping Spam Needs to be Addressed

Slimegoon·3/5/2017, 2:16:17 PM·201 votes·12,138 views

Riot needs to do something to either prevent ping spam, or get rid of the players that do it. It's hard enough when you get stuck with a chat-restricted player, but when they spend the entire game spamming pings to troll your team it's absurd. I'm not talking about someone begging for a gank, I'm talking about 6 pings every time the reset is up. There's no way to mute it, plus it spams the chat log, so not only can't you hear your teammates, you may miss what they're saying all together. If failure to communicate is a ban-worthy offense, then actively disrupting your team's communication should be as well.

123 Comments

DunkinNoobs3/5/2017, 4:58:13 PM51 votes

The ones that start ping spamming once you mute them are the worst. It's blatantly bypassing the mute function to continue harassing people. That kind of shit should have absolutely 0 tolerance.

General Esdeath 3/5/2017, 4:50:16 PM24 votes

Just let us mute the sounds of the pings for specific players

Il Virtuóso3/5/2017, 9:44:57 PM12 votes

I completely agree. I've met many toxic people that start to flame you and then they spam the "?" (enemy missing) ping on you everytime, especially when you make mistakes. That's extremely toxic for me and it should be reportable.

LA Losty3/5/2017, 6:39:16 PM12 votes

All we need is the option to mute pings and i honestly dont know why it hasnt been implemented yet. My friends and i enjoy pinging eachother as a joke, and when the other players are in on it its perfectly fine. Its a problem when you get constantly spammed by someone who intends to harrass you.

58697132DEL13/5/2017, 6:30:44 PM9 votes

2 things needed regarding pings: Mute for ping specific players and a ping wheel for wards.

Im talking a full wheel that says "Ward Here/Danger! Warded!/Not sure if warded?" and even tack on a "Gank Please" one if you want idc.

Verukato3/5/2017, 8:15:58 PM5 votes

The worst is when your team spams "enemies are missing" right on top of your champion - especially when you're trying to fight.

It's like ADC goes in and dies Support is walking to lane or something ADC spam pings enemies are missing, obviously tilted over the fact they died ADC believes spam pinging shelves some of the blame for their mistake over to support Support now involved in that team fight has to deal with question marks flying on top of champion. Support is distracted and dies.

ADC spams more question marks on top of Support because they died.

It sucks.

rtbf2256182413/5/2017, 4:26:20 PM3 votes

Should be 3 pings within a few seconds max. Not 6 or 7 we have right now..

Or mute a certain player's pings so they don't either appear or make the noise.

ZT Xperimentor3/5/2017, 5:31:30 PM3 votes

They should put some kind of cooldown on pings.

jurrrr3/5/2017, 6:11:38 PM3 votes

if it weren't for me ping spamming, I probably would have lost a lot of games. sometimes its needed.

ClowNReapeRx3/6/2017, 12:35:02 AM3 votes

I agree - it's so annoying - when you can mute them - but can't take pings off - mute them and then your screen is full of ping spam... - and they distract you with falls pings and you make more mistakes...

Amihan3/6/2017, 12:46:00 AM3 votes

they should put an in game mic!!!! soemtimes i just want to shout my bot lane to go back but i cant (even if i used yellow ping 100 times)

ryice3/6/2017, 1:50:13 AM3 votes

I think that they should just implement muting pings. I often spam ping when the other laner is missing because most of the time in solo q 1 or 2 pings is not enough and ping spam is very helpful imo to get my teams attention that the other laner is missing.

Parceval3/6/2017, 9:45:37 AM3 votes

Or just mute individual people's pinging. Really don't understand why target ping mute isn't a thing.

The KDA is a lie3/6/2017, 7:57:47 PM2 votes

This is indeed really annoying when it happens. The " ? " spam, but also the respawn-timer spam. Both of which are just toxic behavior from either tilted or straight-up toxic players.

Other Moba games, such as HOTS to only cite one, have that functionality to mute pings from specific players. It's just another icon next to the "mute" icon. It takes next to no space on the screen, and can be used easily and quickly.

Hopefully Riot implements this.