Hippe Game Get rid of Chat Already enough with the free love stuff

ThomasMccooy·6/11/2019, 2:48:35 AM·2 votes·2,199 views

God what a hippie game this is anymore, if you don't want us to get mad don't let us chat simple as that. you can communicate with pings and emojis if you want more then make a friend and get on discord. This hippie game bans people for saying "quit feeding " and/or people running it down and calling people the "n word" is the same is just plan dumb. Get rid of chat all together, then all you have is afkers and run it downers boom! Next thing you know the champs aren't going to hit each other anymore and their just going to air box and no blood from Darius or something haha.

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ModPrandine6/11/2019, 5:25:35 AM3 votes

First of all most people here have never seen a case where someone was banned just for saying "quit feeding". Most people who say they were punished for that are usually withholding information (often intentionally) in an attempt to get their punishment overturned and to also discredit the IFS at the same time. Feel free to provide a link to a case where someone was punished just for saying "stop feeding" alone.

Now with that out of the way some things can only be communicated effectively through chat. Emojis and smart pings are and can be helpful at times (smart pings more than emojis in my experience) but are not the be all-end all of communication. Just because some people can't control themselves not to abuse and misuse a tool (in this case chat) doesn't mean it should be removed: on the contrary the people abusing and misusing it should be removed if they refuse to behave themselves despite being given multiple chances to do so.

Besides, Riot already experimented with psedo-perma mutes in the form of infinitely scaling chat restrictions before the IFS was introduced and found that the majority of people under that penalty either used their limited messages to harass others and/or just switched to things like trolling, inting and griefing, things that are harder to detect and prove malicious intent for compared to simple chat related offenses. This shows that it's not the tool that's the problem: it's people using the tool to abuse and harass others. Riot doesn't want people to just switch from one toxic method to the other-they want people to not be toxic period.

Bottom line: if you don't want to be held accountable for your poor behavior then don't do or say anything that you know will just tick other people off. Is it really that hard to interact with others in a mature and respectful manner (and no that doesn't mean acting like all sunshines & rainbows or whatever 24/7)?

Kei1436/11/2019, 2:56:30 AM3 votes

How can you foster the power of friendship without chat?

EvilDustMan6/11/2019, 3:11:42 AM2 votes

How can I then encourage people and tell them not to worry about mistakes? Or thank them for doing well? Or tell them I enjoyed playing with them?

R107 Games6/11/2019, 2:55:32 AM2 votes

if u get rid of chat then there will be even more trolls than there already are as a result of the strict IFS.

there should simply be an option to turn it off

EvilDustMan6/11/2019, 4:25:12 PM1 votes

Also, you are forgetting that yes, both of those examples can get you banned, but one gets you banned much faster than the other

ModPrandine6/11/2019, 9:45:19 PM

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