Solution for the passive-aggressive pinging

Dodopus··1 votes·1,401 views

I'm an avid League of Legends player on the Taiwanese server, I would post on the forums there but the Taiwanese forum is useless, spammed with trolls and porn so I decided to post on here so Riot can see.

I don't know if this has been suggested before but I think changing the symbols or the way the pinging is done would lower the number of spammers as well as the annoying feeling brought about by that one teammate who ALWAYS ping a question mark when you die (You guys know what I'm talking about), as if they never make any mistakes. I don't know about you guys but this behavior is really distracting to me.

So my proposal is change the Enemy is Missing ping symbol to something other than the question mark, as for what it is that's not for me to say. This will remove that intended effect mentioned in the above paragraph. Then change the ping system to better deliver positive messages, such as "My beloved teammate, please retreat!", that was a joke but again, the idea is to make it so the ping can still be abused but all the spammer can do is make the spamming behavior look polite. This idea was from this other game I played a while back where every time a player cusses the system would automatically change the phrase to "I love you!" and that was pretty entertaining.

As a huge fan of the game I do want to see the game being free of toxic players, so that was my short suggestion.

7 Comments

Lothàrs Edge1 votes

Would be cool if they could add in "Missing Middle or Missing Bottom, etc" like they had in D2 for all hero voices.

Akenero1 votes

The technology exists, so it's a valid option to implement

Kei1431 votes

or you can just report them as harassment?

Riot does have access to that data, just make sure you let them know that they are spamming pings in the report message.

Dodopus1 votes

I could but I think it would be better if the option to perform a toxic behavior is removed in the first place. That would greatly discourage the players to spam ping. Also sometimes it's not spamming but the Enemy is Missing ping that is mentioned in my post that is the most annoying. All they have to do is ? every time you die.

Erdrik1 votes

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... I think it would be better if the option to perform a toxic behavior is removed in the first place. ...

I think the problem here is that literally anything can be performed as a toxic behavior. They can't just remove it because the "Enemy is Missing" ping serves an important role.

The "?" graphic is the most obvious symbol for that. Of course, if you have ideas for a different symbol that imparts an "MIA" message without also potentially being a "WTF?" message, then make that specific suggestion.

Dodopus1 votes

Lol~ having a "WTF?" symbol would be great. I was thinking more along the lines of just the abbreviation "MIA".

Akenero1 votes

I hate people who do that with Mia pings, though I'm not above using normal pings if a teammate does something dumb.

But yes, I'm a ping spammer if I have information to give, in groups of 3 pings a pop typically.

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