Daily reminder on why the game is toxic and why chat bans are useless

Troxic·10/22/2017, 4:10:45 PM·3 votes·388 views

Imagine you are assigned a project at work and you have to work with 5 people you don't know, and one of them doesn't pull their weight, makes stupid decisions, or purposely ruins it because they think its funny or just don't care. And you all get fired. How would you feel?

REALLY think about that for a second. How would you feel? Outrage perhaps, over the unfairness of it, and over the time you wasted for no reason? Anger? Anger at the person for being so inconsiderate of others? Or maybe even anger at the system for putting you in such an unfair position in the first place? Humans do not react well to feeling powerless or cheated of their time and effort. This will never change, and you will not, by chat bans and such, change those who are more prone to this reaction. The more they are prone to it, the more likely they have multiple accounts anyways. The effect of bans is basically 0 because those players are still playing, just under a differen't account.

THIS is why LOL players are so toxic. Ranked is basically the same situation on a smaller scale. I would argue that most chat bans come from players reacting to this situation. They don't just come in and start talking shit for no reason. I often say nothing even when players are doing bad in lane...until maybe 30 minutes in until its like, okay you aren't paying attention to the mini-map, and you are building the wrong items for the enemy team comp dude, stop it.

I know a lot of you will read this and be like "but people should be respectful blah blah blah" NOT the point. Yes people SHOULD be all sorts of things, but we often aren't. You yourself, and myself, and everyone, is guilty, daily of not acting in a manner that we would hope other people would act in some area of our life.

Chat bans do nothing. The focus should be:

A)players that feed and troll---faster and harder punishments

B)Riot making the game so that your match isn't decided in the first 5 minutes by an ADC who is having a bad day.

C)A way to take the edge off of a loss for players who do well. Like a system that moves you up in down in ranked purely based on the win or loss, but also calculates a separate rank that you can move up in based on expected performance for that champion in that role (KDA and farm for some, assists for supports, low death in general etc), which can, say, earn you bonus LP for wins the higher you are in that separate ranking class relative to your elo rank, and take off some of the loss of LP for losses.

10 Comments

Drugoth10/22/2017, 4:17:34 PM3 votes

Yes, gameplay trolling is harder for the current system to detect. Riot is currently working diligently behind the scenes to figure out a permanent solution to this discrepancy.

In the meantime, we can do our best not to vent in chat and add to the negative environment a troll already creates in the game.

Besides, the #1 rule of the internet is not to feed trolls, they want you to flame them because they know that you're more likely to get punished than them, they know this and abuse it.

So at the end of the day it's down to us to react in the proper way against these evil doers. Report them, and for the love of all that is holy, try not to flame, you'll just open yourself up to punishment.

Chermorg10/22/2017, 7:29:13 PM3 votes

Your analogy does not make sense. Riot does not "fire" (punish) you for having a bad player on your team. They do punish you if you flame or abuse them.

General Esdeath 10/23/2017, 5:56:29 AM1 votes

You're still trying to use this analogy? lmao

Bettnachleger10/24/2017, 8:15:29 AM1 votes

Imagine you are assigned a project at work and you have to work with 5 people you don't know, and one of them doesn't pull their weight, makes stupid decisions, or purposely ruins it because they think its funny or just don't care. And you all get fired. How would you feel?

I don't know, but it seems like you have never worked on a project. There has to be a Project leader, and if someone doesn't pull his weight, you have to talk with said Project leader about it. **He **then decides what actions have to be taken. (not you by flaming or blaming this guy, if you do so, you will be thrown out too) 99% cases, he will be thrown out if he doesn't change his behaviour/pull his weight after one or maybe two warnings.