The ban system, the thin-skinned and the ban-happy.
So in advance, I'm typing this whilst thoroughly sauced, but after the last few matches, I felt an urge to finally speak up(though I highly doubt I'm the first to do so, much less the last/the only to be voted down into the negatives).
The stance on banning players is, ultimately, utterly laughable and pathetic. Pathetic in the sense that it takes little more than a 'fuck you', or 'you piece of shit' to get, at worst, a ban; or at least, a several-game chat restriction. Oh no, this player, whom knows nothing about me and is a part of a game that is -highly- competitive, one that is bound to give way to irritation and aggravation; said something negative, or something I don't agree with! REPORT, REPORT, REEEE, SECURE MY SAFE SPACE
Fuck off. RIOT team or those that worked on the ban system; this algorithm is a shit-tier mess. If anything, banning one over textual hostility/anger is downright shallow. Oh no, someone insulted. Oh no, someone threw out a slur or something derogatory. Piss off, grow a spine, thicken your skin up, then come back to the game. Now, if someone was cheating or using third-party programs to give themselves an advantage; yes, ban away. But over textual words? From a complete stranger that knows nothing about you? Whom may or may not have had a bad day? That you're completely free to mute and ignore for the remainder of the match?
Mind you, this is, in no shape or form, my way of excusing what I've said/done. I own up to it. I readily accept it. Because fuck you, aggravation and tempers flaring up is a part of human nature; and trying to stifle it or ban it will only further exasperate things. You think a perma-ban or the threat of such will stop players and their aggression over a highly competitive game from flaring up? Absolutely not. If anything, we'll likely take it as a challenge to keep on pushing and textually all-caps REEEing. Anything short of an IP-Ban(which mind you, is easily enough worked around), and we'll be back within the hour. If you don't like it? Shit talk back. It's a great way to relieve stress. Especially if you wind up dominating the other player in-game and curb-stomp their lane.
As the saying goes, if you can't take the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen. Your whiny, white-knight, brown-nosing, report happy ways are ultimately more obnoxious than any toxicity in and of itself. You give off the impression you are better than those that're deemed 'toxic', when in fact, you ranting and raving about how you'll report us, and get us banned, makes you no better, if not worse. You, who are report happy and so flimsy as to be rustled by textual animosity, ride upon a digital high-horse. You let yourselves be increasingly weak and petty, so eager to report over even the smallest hint of animosity or hostility.
To the RIOT team, to the team behind the banning algorithm, and to the players who feel so obligated to shed their internet justice-warrior tears and go on a report-happy spree -- fix yourselves. Develop a thicker skin. Shit talking is a part of all competitive games. Irritation, flared tempers and anger is a part of human nature. Attempting to suppress that is utter fucking folly. Not in reality, where there's a time and place for anger to rear its head. But in a game? A fucking G A M E? Holy weeping, creeping jesus Christ. League truly is becoming increasingly shitty.
Vote into the negatives as you like. This will be my first, and only post, either way. No real difference to me.
