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Toxicity is toxicity, there shouldn't be a "ladder" system of it.

Lush Father·7/17/2018, 2:01:39 AM·1 votes·1,362 views

It's all lead to the same conclusion, which is directed to hurting someones feelings. There shouldn't be "different degrees of toxic", it should all be on the same level, for some people might find something that isn't as offensive to someone else, to be really offensive to them.

I've made this point in a comment with a boards Moderator, stating that I can easily call someone an "insect" to avoid the chat restriction/ban, because my intention is to personally attack them. It doesn't matter on how I attack the player, as long as I'm being derogative and get my point across. It's a word that my friend personally uses to deliberately belittle someone, he also uses phrases like "Go drink some mercury", which is his way of saying "Go off yourself". My point here is that the system is abusive, and shouldn't have a ranked system on which is classified as more toxic than the other word that has been previously used.

27 Comments

Skullgetti7/17/2018, 3:23:54 AM5 votes

Crime is crime, and there is no levels of it.

Someone who smoked a weed should be executed just like someone who killed 14 men.

Chermorg7/17/2018, 2:06:44 AM4 votes

There is no "more toxic" than anything else. Behavior is evaluated holistically - based on the things the player said. There is no word or phrase more toxic than another with one exception:

Hate speech, i.e. that which is discriminatory/derogatory towards someone for nationality, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. is met with escalated punishment, as is telling someone to kill themselves (or similar).

Aside from that exception, any toxicity is punished based on how toxic as a whole the chat log is - not the specific words/phrases used, but the overall level of toxicity. This is because while one comment in isolation may be "toxic", it may not merit a punishment (ex: an offhanded comment of "wtf was that") whereas that same comment in combination with others may merit a punishment.

TLDR: No single word/phrase merits punishment on its own, and chat is evaluated holistically.

KVbqbFsC8e7/17/2018, 3:08:58 AM1 votes

"Toxicity" is subjective anyway.

I find someone going 0/15 much more "toxic" than someone complaining about an 0/15 teammate.

afmghost7/17/2018, 2:53:17 PM1 votes

If I called you a jerk, that would be mild toxicity. If I cussed you out, that would be moderate toxicity. If I made racial, sexual, autistic, or any other kind of slur, or if I made threats against you or people you care about, that would be significant toxicity.

Look, I agree that toxicity is toxicity. But some statements are worse than others.