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Mo999·8/8/2018, 4:10:36 AM·2 votes·1,682 views

I was recently chat-restricted for 25 games. Not proud of it, but I talked with a Riot employee and I can definitely see how I was being toxic.

Still, I felt like I was more the victim here than the villain, so I responded to the toxicity. Obviously not the best option (since it got me restricted), but I didn't want my team to start zeroing in on him as well and get super tilted.

So what I proposed to Riot Void Wish was if we could have a similar mechanism to CS:GO's "kick a player" vote. But instead, we make it so that it's "mute a player." That way, you don't have to hope that the rest of your team is smart enough to block/ignore the player; it'll be done once the mute a player vote goes throw.

I really think this is simple to implement (even though Zero Wish promised me in no uncertain terms that Riot's spaghetti code will make me shudder) so I hope this will seriously be looked into for the future. Because we desperately need some realtime control over toxic people. If this were implemented, players like me wouldn't be baited into responding to people, and other players wouldn't be tilted.

What are your guys's thoughts?

EDIT For people actually concerned about the problems and not just looking to put me on full blast with half-baked, worn-out arguments:

We clearly have a problem with toxicity. Everybody encounters it, and reporting them after the game does nothing to the LP you lose. What's worse is that your team may start responding to toxicity or tilt because of it. That's why we need something that can act realtime. This is an easy to implement solution. It won't get rid of all toxicity, but it's a start in the right direction.

So please, if you have problems with what I proposed, give me an actual solution involving realtime that isn't "you can just mute them xd" because it's great that I can do that, but I can't make my teammates do the same.

25 Comments

disregardable8/8/2018, 4:13:58 AM4 votes

You have your own mute button to use at your own discretion. Personally I don't give a shit about what anyone says in chat, so there's no benefit to muting someone.

Zombie Gerbil8/8/2018, 4:21:24 AM4 votes

When it comes to toxicity, there are no real victims or heroes in this game. Because it all depends on their self-control. I do like your idea about voting to mute a certain player for their chat if there toxic and worried about the rest of the team's stability of that self-control. However it will not plan out as you would want it to.

I'll explain why. When you choose to outcast a member of your team it will likely have a negative effect. It could turn that single player or players you outcasted to be muted will turn on you. Meaning they could leave or simply refuse to play. That's why voting for most situations in this game isn't implemented except for forfeiting.

Riot doesn't want anyone, in general, to be outcasted for their opinions or choices that don't go against the policy. So if you're muted by one player, just on their end, then you're not entirely outcasted by the team, unless they all muted you. But you can't create a vote and point out that you don't want this player to be heard. Because that alone will create more controversy than moving the game forward.

zPOOPz8/8/2018, 6:42:36 AM3 votes

No! The mere fact of someone starting such a vote, whether it suceeds or not, would just further enraged and antagonized the person you are trying to punished. I put it at the same level as asking for report against that person.

At worst if it succeeds, the person unable to type will turn to gameplay toxicity. If it fails, the person, now can still type, will cease all gameplay and turn the chat into a flaming bag of poo at you.

I don't see how this could end well for the team at all. The moment someone sees a vote against him, good luck trying to fight 5v5.