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Unpopular opinion: trolling is usually never 100% the troll's fault and can be prevented

Tuition Fee·2/20/2019, 3:08:19 AM·1 votes·2,641 views

So, I never understood this concept myself until last game. I was on the verge of trolling. Lux gave First Blood, called me bad because I died to Thresh (After killing Jhin, and Thresh was still had much more HP than I did, and started E, it was also difficult to poke because I was playing Sivir) and basically ditched the lane to roam, leaving me to 2v1 Jhin and Thresh, while calling me a sha bi (basically means mentally deficit person in Mandarin and telling me I don't know how to play.)

I pleaded for her to come back to lane, but she told me she doesn't play with bad ADCs. Anyways, no one said a word against it, or tried to help me out, and I was running a major gold deficit versus a fed Jhin, who could basically dive me at that point with his Thresh. Decided to int, after tilting my arse off.

Fortunately, Amumu came to help and asked Lux to come back to lane, and offered some kind words. Decided that it'd be a dick move to make such a nice guy lose on account of one dick.

Long story short, some kind words and encouragement can go a long way to prevent a loss, and the troll, if coming into the game with good intentions, does not deserve the entire portion of the blame.

Edit: If I can offer an incentive for you guys to post your counterarguments instead of just downvoting, I will be giving everyone free upvotes regardless of what your argument is as long as it's relevant to the discussion at hand. Pls. Post your opinion.

Double edit: Please stay civil. Mods, if this thing gets out of hand, please lock instead of deleting, I kinda want to use this for my philosophy ISP. Btw guys, Im using this + your responses for my philosophy ISP.

24 Comments

zPOOPz2/20/2019, 3:18:16 AM11 votes

This is an unpopular opinion. The act of trolling is 100% a willful act. No one should be able to make you do it with a bit of self-control or at least a sense of accountability when you are caught and not try to find scapegoat.

ModUlanopo2/20/2019, 3:54:16 AM7 votes

Decided to int, after tilting my arse off.

Key word being "decided". Yeah, the Lux was wrong, but you were too.

ı Sona ı2/20/2019, 3:28:20 AM3 votes

While it can be said that because Rengar picked Soraka it caused Soraka to pick Soraka instead of another jg and ultimately troll the game leading to the other 3 to afk, ultimately the Soraka should of just been mature and picked another jg to jg with.

Jennifer4202/20/2019, 4:47:34 AM2 votes

i feel like most trolls i had went into champselect with the intention to troll. but it happens often enough that people troll over the simplest of things. 2 days ago my adc went trolling cause relic shield thresh messed up the last hit on the canon minion and neither got it. "denying me most valuable farm? if you want to help enemys ok i join" then the adc just went inting.

Tele II2/21/2019, 6:26:38 AM1 votes

Of course thats an unpopular opinion lol. You even say USUALLY not 100% the trolls fault, implying that the majority of the time, said troll is not 100% at fault. Ive been flamed before over dumb shit too and my reaction wasnt oh I should troll everyone, fucking over the flamer AND my teammates who havent said shit. Thats you dude. It happens to you once, and you come to the conclusion that the majority of trolls arent at fault? Im sorry but thats just projecting your own personality onto others. Not everyone is like that, and even though I rarely see trolls, I usually identify them before anyone has even said anything to them.

Besides, if someone trolls as a reaction to flame, theyre still at fault for trolling. Revenge trolling is just as bad as normal trolling and shouldnt be justified by "someone called him a r%%%%% so its not his fault". I mean come on man.

I will say, one of the reasons i hate seeing someone start flaming in game, is because i know that the person being flamed might be the type of person to fuck everyone else over as a reaction. So i guess i kind of understand your point, but I think the semantics are wrong. The troll is still 100% at fault for his own actions.

P.S. Dont upvote me. Votes mean nothing.