Where do we draw the line?

CominTowardsYa·11/4/2019, 3:51:39 AM·1 votes·2,792 views

Ever played a game with a person who totally freaked out about stealing on cs or one kill?

Then that person plays in a way that is passive aggressive?

They might say something like, "Looks like you need the gold."

or, "Take my creeps, you can use the cs."

As a result of an honest mistake in an attempt to help a fellow teammate, you get punished by a passive aggressive player who doesn't group for fights, and play counter productive to winning.

Has this happened to you in a game?

How do we deal with these players who don't say anything wrong, but we know they are trying to lose, but it is not obvious, so they don't get seen on the Riot radar?

We always see blatant chat restrictions and perma bans for overt a hole stuff here on the forums, but what about those not so obvious people who have been skirting the limits of the rules, getting by and ruining so many more games?

What do we do about these guys? I think this is the worst of all the problems here, because they do this non-stop, and unchecked. They usually will do this to teach someone a lesson and cause someone else to tilt or flame people on the team, resulting in another player losing it and getting banned. This kind of manipulation is despicable and you are the people in my opinion that do not deserve to play the game, because of the ceaseless damage to do to the community.

17 Comments

BONUS DMG 2NOOBS11/4/2019, 5:44:10 AM2 votes

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AeroWaffle11/4/2019, 8:17:47 AM2 votes

How do we deal with these players who don't say anything wrong, but we know they are trying to lose, but it is not obvious, so they don't get seen on the Riot radar?

Realistically? You can't.

Riot decides whom is breaking the rules and deserves a punishment, not any one individual player.

This concept of someone being malicious while carefully staying under the radar is not a foreign concept anywhere, be it a game or real life. This is not a problem that really gets solved, because part of the problem is the person actively making sure that they're following the letter of the rules.

You can't solve that.

Scarefish11/5/2019, 4:58:10 AM2 votes

Controversial opinion incoming: People are allowed to have bad games, and a lot of what happens in a match is interpretive. To an extent I'd say players should be allowed to not try to win a match. Where I'd draw the line is pretty far in - Don't actually intentionally feed and don't leave the match. However, if a player is in chat expressing a negative attitude, I would say that is definitely crossing the line. For example, if they're an adc and they're afk-farming while your team is getting pushed in and steamrolled mid, I would say this is okay, and there's some viable reasoning to it if they're playing an especially farm-dependent adc like Twitch or Vayne. However, if they then say something in chat along the lines of "get away from me. I don't want anything to do with this team. Jungle difference. I'd carry you, but you're just not worth it," then there's an argument to be made that they're throwing the match.

Tele II11/5/2019, 10:56:18 PM1 votes

Yes, it is an unfixable problem. Humans are cunning and will always find a way to skirt the rules regardless of who is in charge.