My issue isn't the people who mute. It's the people who DONT mute that are the issue. Toxic players are bad enough on their own, but when it's just in chat all you have to do is mute. It's not hard. Why is it so much harder to press the mute button than it is to press the report button?
Perhaps my view on normal society is different from yours. I was in the military community all my life so I dont know much of any other parts of society. I also see on the news that apperantly lots of the population of people in Baltimore are raiding, pillaging and looting stores in their own city. Is this "Normal" behavior to expect from the people who live there? Of course not.
I've been to Germany, Japan and Korea in my first 18 years of being alive. All places, while culturally different, have the same basic values as to what is normal in regards to common sense. They all know that if you see st and you dont want it on you, you move to the side. Think of the st as "Toxicity" and the action of you moving to the side as using the mute button.
Now you, good sir, are one of these people I've been talking about in the tickets I've been sending Riot. You're one of those people who, rather than see the statement as it is, find put your own personal feeling into it and interpret it as something you should be offended by.
When I call people who seem to feel like they need to subject themselves to Negative/Toxic/Abusive behavior and DONT use the tools they have to REMOVE said behavior they dont WANT to have in the game, what better word is there to call them? You can't call them Martyrs because they're not suffering and dying for their beliefs. Other than that, there are no other words that come as close to describing them than being masochists.
Now, that being said, like in any word, there are different ways in using them. Much like when %%% is used to describe the gay community, it has also been used to describe a bundle of sticks or someone/something annoying. When the black community use THEIR word, it can mean a close friend or a dumb person. Even in the military you can call a marine a jar-head and it would have more than one meaning. But we're subjected to being cussed out by more than our fair share of people in our line of work so it's nothing out of the ordinary to us (We also have to deal with some civilians as well. Those who think we're murderers, heartless monsters, sold our souls to the government. The list continues depending on who's talking) But do we call those people who don't know anything about us other than what they stereotype us?... Well, not to their face but even then we do what we can to keep face despite their ignorance.
When I use the word masochist, it's used for someone who subjects themselves to something that's not good for the AND doesn't get something from it other than getting upset. IF you're a legit masochist and you do your things for you amusement, kudos to you. That's your thing, you're not hurting anyone who's not interested (I hope. Not savvy with this kind of community)
The people I'm addressing are the ones who WILLINGLY subjects themselves to comments (regardless if it's actually offensive to them or not) and CHOOSE to be offended for the duration of the game WITHOUT using the tools provided by Riot to REMOVE said toxicity from their sight. THOSE people traditionaly AGGREVATE the situation by VOLUNTARILY CHOOSING to keep the toxic speech continuing. Because, as common sense dictates, it takes TWO PEOPLE to have any sort of dialogue.
With that said I'm sorry if you, or someone you know, are a masochist in the traditional way. I don't know if I've ever met one in my life but I can tell you what the polls said in the military times about our opinion on the gay community, race and the different religions in the service. I don't care if you are. Now, the Buddhist side I've been working on follows up with I do care about YOU. Because I can understand you if you have that kind of hobby/lifestyle. It's not hard when you look at it AS IT IS instead of WHAT IT MIGHT BE. I could get into a rant about this but this reply is going to be long enough.
If someone is being toxic and you choose not to mute the person, instead choosing to keep the toxic conversation going, you have no rihgt to report the person when you yourself did nothing with the tools given to you to remove yourself from this influence. Especially so if you chose to talk to the person just to keep them talking. If you think in my logs I was toxic, my question to that is "What did they do to remove themselves from my 'toxicity'"? Did they mute me? No, otherwise they would have stopped talking to me. Did they keep talking to me just to keep getting the same answers I was already giving? Yes they did. 'Toxic' players are not the biggest issue. The people who encourage the toxic players while saying they dont want toxic players in the game are not only hypocrits, but are ENABLING the toxic players to keep up with their 'toxicity'.
You, however, need to stop reading between the lines (There's only a space there, no hidden messages) and just look at things as they are. You too focused on finding things to get offended over that you chose not to see the point I was trying to make.
