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Harassment should be punished harder and taken more seriously by Riot.

imSnowCC·12/23/2018, 1:48:03 AM·4 votes·2,482 views

This is a game I just went through alone with my girl, I afk during the game shortly after she left the game. The game was low elo and I could handle it well, but not my girl. She was a new player who had just played a few games for months. Yet the Thresh player (ID: <removed by moderation>) assaulted her as a girl player with extremely hurtful words. It all started from the champ select phase, my girl friend called sup as her role and locked in Miss Fortune, while <removed by moderation> just auto locked in as a Thresh sup. She was confused but also decided to play with it, even though she had never played adc before. Then, this Thresh started his verbal attack which continued for 20 min long. My girlfriend tried to explain she was a new player and never played adc, yet it only made it worse. <removed by moderation> started to harass her as a girl player with unbelievable salty words. My girl, thus, left the game, and I could not see any reason to keep playing with players who didn't know what is respect. This is what happened in that game. I thought League of Legends should be a game for everyone, no matter for trying hard or just for fun, but there are always players assault others and ruin the game. They also said they gonna report us for afk, but tell me, my dear beloved LOL COMMUNITYk, were we really more deserved to be punished rather those disrespectful players? What would you do if you were in my case? I wish RIOT could punish harassment hard, even harder than afk if the case is just like what I've been through.

14 Comments

zPOOPz12/23/2018, 2:15:41 AM11 votes

A level 191 player who doesn't know how to use the Mute function? I don't condone flaming or toxicity, but "for 20 min long" you never once told your girl to mute him? What would I do? I would have told my girl friend to mute the tresh as well as mute him myself. I would not go into Blind Pick (from the "called sup" context) with a level 59 player who obviously can play Normal Draft.

LeaveBuster is an automate system. Both of you will get dinged whether they reported you or not. Tell me, do you deserved to be punished for leaving the other 2 teammates who did you no wrong in a 3v5 game because of one toxic player you both can easily mute? Two wrongs do not make a right. The other 2 teammate(s) likely already muted the tresh if he "continued for 20 min long", but now they get punished on top by having you two afk'd leaving them 3v5. Do they not deserved some kind of justice? Can they not asked for the two of you to be punished harder for making the game horrible for them? What about the other 2 teammate(s) just been through a 3v5 game when they also can mute the toxic tresh?

In no way am I saying the tresh didn't deserved to be punished, but "he did it first" is not an excuse to become toxic yourself (going afk is toxic). Mute the player should be your first go to action (you being a level 191 player should know this) so there's no reason for the verbal attack to "continued for 20 min long" since you cannot see what he is typing. Ping/emote mute too.

p.s. - there is no naming and shaming on this board so you might want to delete the bolded player name before mods have to do it for you.

p.s.s. - Looking at your girl friend match histories. "She" seems to be awfully good when playing flex ranked for an Iron tier player against plat/diamond in jungle role, which she doesn't play normally. Also she always has her Flash on F key when playing support at Iron tier level of performance, but she did extremely well (almost diamond tier level of performance) whenever "she" switched to her Flash on D key.

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=cindyss

Very curious..... Where's the justice for those enemy players whose games were grossly unfair when your girl friend magically became diamond-tier level of performance in low tier games? Where's the respect for fairness of those low tier games?

rujitra12/23/2018, 2:05:58 AM4 votes

You are both in the wrong, as is the player who flamed your friend.

Flaming is not okay and is punished. AFKing is not okay and is punished. What makes you think either one is not punished?

C9 Aphrolift12/23/2018, 2:16:00 AM4 votes

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ModPeriscope12/23/2018, 6:56:22 AM3 votes

I removed the name and match history from your post, as we do not allow naming and shaming on the boards. If you reported them in the post game, that should suffice to have their behavior looked into.

If you have any questions about this moderation, feel free to reach out to us in the Boards Discord.

Inig0 Montoya12/23/2018, 2:57:22 AM3 votes

Never played adc even though she's got jhin and ez games recorded in the role? Why play blind when you guys could simply play queue supp in draft and switch? She's got plenty of games but doesn't know how to mute? Takes two seconds....Thresh shouldn't have flamed but something is also not adding up here as far as your story goes.

Aladoron12/23/2018, 12:22:38 PM3 votes

Just some questsions:

  • How can he continue his verbal attack for 20 mins, if she muted him?
  • Why does Thresh even know she is a girl?
  • Why does she take everything serious on the internet?
  • Why didn't YOU tell her to mute or not to care?
  • Why do you think Thresh being an asshole justifies both of you leaving the game and ruining it for at least 2 innocent teammates, and probably for the enemy too?

but there are always players (...) ruin the game

Ye, leavers and afkers are pretty tilting, since you can not do anything against them.

breakordoom44412/23/2018, 9:10:15 AM2 votes

Yes.

but also: teach your GF to mute. if you don't want to be harassed, don't talk to others! you don't have to mute anyone, but you should mute then man harassing you, no?

also, if Thresh is attacking her due to her gender status, she most likely has her name/gender in her ID. thats also a fault on her part.

Farkinob12/23/2018, 9:39:48 AM1 votes

I recommend using the mute button, and yes I agree League should be a bit harsher on their sentences but they use this psychological ninjitsu stuff that is way above our heads to reform players, etc.

HonourThreshxD12/23/2018, 4:15:38 PM1 votes

USE.THE.MUTE.BUTTON