These boards and learning to hold my tongue has improved my toxic behavior over seasons.

I was doing some reflecting on league today, nothing to deep just remembering some old seasons and how things were different back in those seasons. And as I thought back to those days I remembered thinking to myself how horribly toxic I was and how lucky I am not to have been punished.

Alot of players come on here and show chat logs to dispute a ban, when really what I've learned from these boards is that the best chat log you could possibly have is a blank one. Back in the olden days i was actually pretty toxic, I told players they were garbage, that they should uninstall and even told a few players to kill themselves when team fights went wrong.

Yeah I was bad.

Then I stumbled upon the player behaviour boards and I remember spending hours going through each topic and looking at chat logs of banned players and being amazed how similar they were to my own typing. As i read through topic after topic of banned players venting or begging for their accounts to be unbanned I came to the realization that one day i could truly end up making the same topic and losing my account, Reading these forums i began to learn how to better myself and how to avoid being banned.

I started by holding my tongue. These days I do not say much in chat if anything at all. If my team is flaming me i hold my tongue and use /mute. If I'm frustrated with myself or my team i hide my chat box and calm myself as to prevent myself from typing something toxic like I used to. In the end though I am only human, i do get frustrated. But the things I do type are not as bad as they used to be.

If I were to have a jungler who refused to gank lanes, Old me would have told said jungler to "never jungle again and do to his family a favour and rid them of himself."

These days though i'm much calmer on how I approach things. Instead might ask that jungler:

"Hey we have been asking for ganks but not getting them, are you to far behind? or do you just not intend to gank?"

And if said jungler replies with: "!@#$ off i aint ganking or doing !@#$ for you noobs you deserve to lose."

Well what more can i say other then: "If you didn't intend to support other lanes by jungling maybe you shouldn't jungle anymore"

a harsh piece of advice yes but far from being extremely toxic and what I used to be like.

These days I'm actually proud by how much I've improved and I'm grateful to have never been punished with a chat restriction or ban on my account, though i do get heated by playing league i can reflect back on what I used to be like and vow never to be like that again.

I also have you, the Player Behavior boards to thank for showing me just how bad i was and truthfully I don't think i could have changed had it not been for this board.

You guys were the best team a League player could ask for. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]