If your toxic in chat why don't you just get a perma chat restriction?
I don't think anyone should be perma banned for being toxic. if your perma ban them from chat it solves the whole problen :/ I don't get it really
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Permanent chat restrictions don't work on toxic players. They just move their toxicity to their gameplay and other things (such as pings) instead, which is far worse because you can't mute feeding. That's why they changed the punishment for verbal abuse so chat restrictions don't just infinitely stack and it moves to a ban instead.
Well I kinda wish Riot would give us all a (Mute All Button) at the start of the game like in (Heroes OF The Storm) they put it there to help prevent toxicity it says (Click here to disable allied chat.)
I think players should have enough common sense not to say hateful things at least most of the chat toxicity I see in games is the hard hatred stuff, the AFKing, and the players who just don't listen at all it makes things very difficult sometimes.
Which leads to other things, not all toxicity is chat based, take for example I said in at least 3-4 of my games that I personally played in that I fed, and did bad in before getting my suspension ( I am just going to play on the turret, and play defensively) Why my ADC players choose to be toxic not listen push the entire creep wave out and keep auto attacking is beyond me, there is only one game where players did not do this instead they left the lane and went top, and I went 2v1 and the game was won because I played defense on the turret, they didn't want to play that way apparently but they were running builds and stuff I did not agree with or feel comfortable going full offense with because doing such would mean I would just feed a lot which is why most my games go bad sometimes.
Then you got actual Intentional Feeding, and Going AFK, along with excessive surrender spam votes, I absolutely hate this like if you are going to surrender just ask once keep spamming surrender and going AFK is toxic.
Like with the toxicity I see daily when I played league the amount of players I just muted at the start of most games was high, because players want to argue, players want to make cancer comments, and say those hurtful things which have no place in this game like its common sense not to do this, although if I personally don't mute players then I am going to Argue all game long and I can't even focus on the game, because honestly under certain conditions if I am lucky enough to get ahead even with the toxicity I can do a lot better.
edit: speaking of toxic pings they should bring back the option to mute players pings as well lick when the game first was released maybe 3-4 years ago or longer players used to have this option.
That may work for some people but unfortunately perma chat restrictions don't work on everyone. For the most dedicated trolls they'll just adjust their trolling to fit their gameplay and/or troll via ping spamming. For those kinds of players an actual account ban is needed for them to get the hint that trolling in any form is not allowed period.
I actually had a discussion with someone about this recently. Allow me to summarize my position in that discussion:
Players who are toxic in chat will likely find having that "voice" silenced to be a point of further frustration - rather than solving their problem (frustration/anger/whatever), the chat ban would exacerbate it, while at the same time removing their previous method of expressing that anger/frustration.
This is most likely to lead them to find new ways of expression - new methods of "acting out," as it were. It's not a particularly significant leap to shift from badgering people in chat to using game mechanics to ruin their game experience.
In the long run, they'd most likely still earn a perma-ban, but only after getting more time to ruin more games.