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This Community Isn't Toxic, It's Overly Sensitive

Toxenius·9/28/2018, 8:57:41 PM·6 votes·1,952 views

Is it just me? Because I feel like if I even crack a joke I'm immediately pegged as a hostile entity on the team and I'm just salt of the earth. I got reported and labeled "toxic" for saying "bUILD arMoR" in game. An enemy renekton wen't maybe 8/0 and ALL chatted "first time renekton" and a simple "he's a simple champ, gj" and that was replied with "Waow, SALTY MUCH?" Maybe kids just care about this game way too much, but for those of us who don't really care about a KDA we're literally just saying a casual "gj". Mostly I say nothing in game, not much a ping won't tell my team, but those few times I do need to more thoroughly communicate it just makes someone cry apparently, and even my username offensds people. (It's a word I said a bunch when I was like 4, and I use it as my penname for everything online)

Anyone else see this in game? Any amount of light-handed critique to a teammate, play suggestion, or mild criticism is immediately read as toxic when in reality is just strategy. Go into the real world, people will talk to you in a certain way--especially in a sport--where they need results from you and have to get a point across directly. I really don't see a lot of toxicity in this game, truly. I see maybe.. ONE actually toxic player in about 20 games. One, true, true, just a-hole that I would never want to play with. But I don't believe this community is as toxic as everyone thinks it is, I just think everyone's overly reacts to the smallest things and get's their feelings hurt, and report-happy. Maybe it's an age factor? Or just a League thing?

21 Comments

Subdue9/28/2018, 9:07:53 PM11 votes

I'd like to see the reform card where you were penalized for saying "Build Armor."

People can report for whatever they want. They can report you if they don't like your name, your champion, your skin. Or they can report you for no reason at all.

The key is that even if you're reported, if you've done nothing wrong, you're not penalized.

I too rarely encounter toxic players, so I've voted "1. Barely (1 player 20)." But this does not mean I agree with your premise that people are just overly sensitive. Rather, I think some players engage in behaviors which in turn exposes them to a lot of extra retaliatory toxicity.

Bijeesny9/28/2018, 9:02:23 PM2 votes

I think it's a lil bit of both. Community is pretty toxic, but from time to time you can see people simply overreacting to some things, like complaining about 'ggez' and asking to make it a punishable word or being drama-queen because some1 made a death threat to them.

SoundChaosDebug9/28/2018, 9:10:39 PM1 votes

it's toxic and sensitive https://i.imgur.com/DBcUtoo.png

Silent Gravity9/28/2018, 10:27:15 PM1 votes

It looks like you're complaining about other people being sensitive. Sure. Some people are. But then you complain about being labeled toxic, or being taunted by a Renekton.

It seems like you should be able to handle words like that.