Confused and Annoyed

DavetheNave·11/27/2016, 4:27:55 AM·6 votes·1,111 views

So if I understand the behaviour monitoring system I have to keep my trap shut when people are insulting me, verbal abusing, trolling, refusing to surrender lost games (such as 3v5 or other nonsense), and purposefully feeding just because if I retaliate I'm the one who's likely to get in trouble?

Am I just supposed to trust the automated system to give these people what for? I mean, I know it works, I got chat restricted once and guess what, it was mostly for laying into people who were already being jerks.

I'm just supposed to take it and then press my little report button after while they get to act stupid without visible repercussions?

Just seems like I'm not able to defend myself verbally and that annoys me. Shouldn't punishments take all factors of the game (other player's actions into account as well?)

26 Comments

AeroWaffle11/27/2016, 4:32:52 AM2 votes

If you retaliate, you make yourself just as guilty as the other party. So no, it's not like you're more likely to be punished than the other party. You're just placing yourself on the chopping block with them.

And yes, you're suppose to "just take it". If you want to shut them up, there's the mute button. The report feature is to help Riot prevent them from behaving in the same poor fashion in other games. Yelling at someone who's trolling is playing into their hand. If they're trolling, they want you to be angry. Yelling at them is confirmation that they got what they wanted.

ReadyxPlayerxOne11/27/2016, 4:33:12 AM2 votes

There's so much of this going on I don't want to play at the moment.

Defending ourselves is irrelevant. I just want to know that when I report that asshole... SOMETHING IS BEING DONE....

I want to see that I reported 150 assholes and 107 of them were penalized.

Problem is that I think RIOT doesn't want to show us the truth. Of those 150 reports maybe 5 had anything done about it.

Deep Terror Nami11/27/2016, 4:33:55 AM2 votes

Well, for the most part you can also mute them. Open up the scoreboard by pressing Tab and you'll find a speaker icon by the person you want to mute. If you instead choose to lay into them, that tends to only make matters worse and you become problem #2 for the team.

Shouldn't punishments take all factors of the game (other player's actions into account as well?)

Retaliation is not an acceptable reason to be toxic, for the reasons I stated already. You are responsible for your own actions and will be held accountable for them alone, as the other players will be for theirs.

Just mute and report them. If they are like this on a regular basis then your reports will contribute to getting them punished for it. For the gameplay offenses (like intentional feeding), talking shit to them will probably only make them come and screw with you, so just focus on winning in spite of them.

Reinah11/27/2016, 4:40:12 AM1 votes

It's easy to be sucked in to a toxic player's behavior, but more than likely they're just trying to get a reaction out of you. The best thing to do is just ignore them or mute them. It's not easy, I'll admit that, but learning not to get sucked in really helps in the long run.

Hryna11/27/2016, 6:29:57 AM1 votes

How can you even talk to those people? It's so difficult. And, AND they know they provoked a reaction. Instead of just muting them and leaving them larking into empty air you retaliate aka become flamer #2 and essentially make the game worse for 2 people because you're butthurt. Honestly a bit selfish.

ModPrandine11/27/2016, 5:09:13 PM1 votes

You can defend yourself so long as it's done in a respectful (read: neutral or positive) manner. Once you start lashing out (i.e. negatively retaliating) against them then it's no longer you defending yourself-it's just you being a jerk.

TeCoolMage11/27/2016, 8:26:39 PM1 votes

If you got chat restricted, chances are, they did too. The system is made to punish people who break the rules, not indulge people's sadistic desire to see other people be punished.

also, 'visible' is only based on your perception.

Stephenizgod11/27/2016, 11:35:31 PM1 votes

Why do you feel the need to respond negatively enough to get punished? If someone is verbally abusing you, how hard is it to just mute them? If someone is feeding why not mute them and try to play around it? You don't need to respond to toxicity, it is not Riot's fault you can't control yourself. All toxicity is punished, even when it is done in "defense", so its best to just ignore the trolls and not lower yourself to their level. Be the bigger man/woman.

TendajiX11/29/2016, 3:16:40 PM1 votes

What I do when people refuse to surrender is say "What's the game plan?" Clearly if they don't think the game is lost, they have a plan to win it against the odds, so I ask them. Here's the thing, NOBODY EVER HAS A PLAN, IT'S BLIND OPTIMISM. Nobody I've asked has actually been able to give me any form of a gameplan for success, then get mad when I ask why they won't surrender lol. They tend to FF eventually once you expose that they're just being blindly optimistic.

Z Statistic11/29/2016, 7:06:25 PM1 votes

It's just words on a screen.