Ping Spam Needs to be Addressed

Slimegoon·Mar 5, 2017·201 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

DunkinNoobsMar 5, 201751 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.

BIH DiamondMar 5, 20179 votes

Lmao you know this community is full of losers when they cry about ping spam

DunkinNoobsMar 5, 201729 votes

And you know that you're a dumbass when you actually defend it. Let me guess, you're the guy that spams "?" on someone every time they die?

OctobrMar 5, 20177 votes

It is such a small thing to cry about.

SoryInAdvanceMar 6, 201720 votes

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RocasetMar 6, 201711 votes

pretty hard not to cry about it when 10 pings could potentially make someone forget what they're doing and lose you a fight.

sortitusMar 6, 20173 votes

If they start spam pinging after you mute them, unmute them and then type /ignore [username]. This will mute their chat and silence the pings too.

DunkinNoobsMar 6, 20171 votes

Do I still see their pings? Do they still show up in chat? If either of those things happen, it's still a problem.

sortitusMar 6, 20172 votes

No, it silences all communication from that player completely.

EDIT: If they're in your friend list, it also removes them. Ignored players can't send you any sort of invite in the client either (friend or game invite), so just keep in mind that you'll have to type /ignore [username] again to un-ignore them or remove them from the ignored list in the client if you want to test this with a friend in a custom game.

General Esdeath Mar 5, 201724 votes

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

Jesus is SaviorMar 5, 20178 votes

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

Not just sounds. Full mute. No visuals.

I already mute pings and the visuals still tilt me into a full game throwing.

General Esdeath Mar 5, 20175 votes

The only problem is they may send a legit ping once in a while. Like the ON MY WAY ping. Just block the spam of ? ? ? ? ?

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Jesus is SaviorMar 6, 20175 votes

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The only problem is they may send a legit ping once in a while. Like the ON MY WAY ping. Just block the spam of ? ? ? ? ?

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
???????
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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No. If you troll I don't give a shit about ANY of your pings. I'm gonna ignore them whether they're muted or not. SO may as well let me mute them.

General Esdeath Mar 6, 20171 votes

I'm not talking about trolls, just the people that spam ? pings

Jesus is SaviorMar 6, 20173 votes

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I'm not talking about trolls, just the people that spam ? pings

People who spam ? pings are trolls.

rtbf76109271Mar 6, 20173 votes

If spamming ? was the only thing muted or not allowed do you really think people wouldnt just choose another ping

LA LostyMar 5, 201712 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.

Il VirtuósoMar 5, 201712 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.

Papa AndreiMar 6, 20174 votes

Its really fun when you get a full 4 man premade doing it, and they go into All chat saying to report you, and the enemy team believes them cause your teamates don't have same clan tag.

rtbf76109271Mar 6, 20172 votes

At least it doesnt actually matter if 1 person reports you or 9. It just flags the game and they review it either way. So as terrible as those games are, dont stress if they convince the other team to report you too. Just mute all and try to play i what i do

58697132DEL1Mar 5, 20179 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.

PaquayMar 6, 20173 votes

Hell no. I don't want to have to select from a 20 option radial menu to try and figure out every ping. If a jungler says he is coming, and I ping "danger" in the tri-brush, he should know what's up. If not, a written paragraph wasn't going to fix that situation.

58697132DEL1Mar 6, 20173 votes

its not 20 its 3 more options to provided clarity on a topic 99.99% of players agree is pretty damn important and im tired of people not "deciphering" my multi pings to communicate. You would THINK they might know what you mean but hey, people are stupid. juts look at these forums.

ForeverLaxxMar 6, 20171 votes

No. We don't need obnoxious text wheels for every conceivable thing you could possibly want to use a ping for. "Danger" should suffice. If it doesn't, then it wouldn't matter if you had an option that said "I know you want to gank, but they totally have that area warded or there could even be someone in there waiting for you. I don't know, but you might want to try going around a different direction instead."

58697132DEL1Mar 6, 20175 votes

okay so tell that to every retard that facechecks a buash i ping danger too because "they thought they should ward it for ganks" ???????? how do i communicate that then??????

jeez why are people so uptight about a very efficient ping that would take 0 effort to implement into a wheel. Gosh sorry for wishing the game could compensate for the retardation of low elo solo Qs i forgot league a game where nowadays you just play grouped or not at all. XD

ForeverLaxxMar 6, 20171 votes

It's not "efficient" when you have to navigate an idiotic wheel that every other person who is afraid of using the chat box will continue to suggest adding to. There's a chat system, so use it. If you're slow at typing, get faster at it.

If they walk into brush that you just told them to be wary of, see my above post.

Be careful you don't fall from that ivory tower that you built yourself.

Glory ln DeathMar 6, 20172 votes

Is it really that difficult for you to navigate a 4 option ping wheel? Adding a separate Ward ping wheel on another hotkey really wouldn't be very difficult to adapt to, and would improve coordination and communication for teams.

ForeverLaxxMar 7, 20171 votes

"Is it really that difficult to navigate a 36 option wheel" is what you're really asking. This is why it's a stupid idea. You know what's not difficult? Using the chatbox.

Glory ln DeathMar 7, 20172 votes

No, that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking exactly what I said: Is it really that difficult for you to navigate a 4 option ping wheel? If you'll notice, everyone has been talking about using a different wheel, not adding on to the one we already have.

As in, "g" gives you "on my way", "enemy missing", "help", and "danger" options. "H" gives you the 4 ward options.

And, no - using chat is not easy, nor is it fast. You can't afford to just stop moving and type to your jungler that a bush is warded or ask your support to ward somewhere. You will get poked, or lose cs, or get jumped on and die. And using the current pings is inefficient - your jungler might understand what you're saying when you ? or ! ping the bush they're about to go into, but it will send confusing messages to the rest of your team.

ForeverLaxxMar 8, 20171 votes

I managed it all the time before the stupid wheel was even a thing. Standard Ping, type "warded", and ping a second time to confirm the location. Takes all of 2 seconds to perform.

Glory ln DeathMar 8, 20172 votes

Why use email when you could just mail a letter? Email just over-complicates things.

DubshokaMar 6, 20172 votes

Not sure why a few people are so opposed to this. Wouldn't have to be on the same wheel. It should be a different wheel with a different hotkey. B for default. EZPZ.

NineTailedMysticMar 6, 20172 votes

B is recall by default.

58697132DEL1Mar 7, 20172 votes

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ E Z P Z

VerukatoMar 5, 20175 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.

ErytroxylinMar 6, 20174 votes

http://i.imgur.com/SDWHYAU.gif?notedirect

rtbf225618241Mar 5, 20173 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 XperimentorMar 5, 20173 votes

They should put some kind of cooldown on pings.

lc0291Mar 5, 20173 votes

There is a cooldown, but it's extremely short and only after you've spammed a bunch already

ahferroin7Mar 5, 20172 votes

They have a cooldown, but it's currently pretty short, and it's consistent no matter how many times you've triggered it.

Ideally, it should double in duration each time you trigger it (up to a reasonable point).

jurrrrMar 5, 20173 votes

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

AuroramancerMar 5, 20173 votes

surely you weren't spamming missing pings or danger pings on players even when they've just respawned, right?

jurrrrMar 5, 20175 votes

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surely you weren't spamming missing pings or danger pings on players even when they've just respawned, right?

now that is completely different. Anyone doing it just to spite others should grow up.

AuroramancerMar 6, 20174 votes

That's what the post is addressing

ahferroin7Mar 5, 20174 votes

There's a difference between doing it to get someone's attention about something that's actually important, and just being a jerk. Pretty much, most people don't have much issue with a string of 3 of the same ping _if_it's actually conveying useful information. If you're hitting the limiter more than once or twice in a game, or are blatantly being a jerk (for example, spamming the MIA ping to go 'WTF?' about what you think was a bad play), then it absolutely is an issue and should be reportable.

ClowNReapeRxMar 6, 20173 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...

AmihanMar 6, 20173 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)

ryiceMar 6, 20173 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.

ParcevalMar 6, 20173 votes

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

The KDA is a lieMar 6, 20172 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.