In my opinion, the League of Legends community is probably the worst community out of all the games out there. I say that because in many other games, people might just curse you out. Ex: fu*k, Sh*t, etc... But in the league community, it isn't just cursing, there are people that would tell you to kill yourself, or hope you get cancer, and that takes the badness of the community to a whole another level, and i believe that's cyber bullying, except you don't really know the person you are bullying unless its a pre-made team. Bullying is bad, it leads to people harming themselves and maybe even suicide, which i don't think is this serious with this game, but it sometimes still gets people and make them feel bad about themselves which ruins the gaming experience for them. And they didn't play this game to be mad, they play it for fun and sometimes a little bit competitive. So if you ever find yourself insulting people, just remember you are most likely ruining that person's day, and that hopefully will get you to stop.
I haven't been playing this game since the beginning but it seems like this toxicity has been going on for a while. You would think that because of how bad the players are to each other, riot would do something, and although they have been researching on the players for year, they still haven't done any sizable progress on stopping it. So, i decided to make this forum post raising some more awareness about the issue and talking about some ways to prevent the toxicity. First of, this is for a school project that requires finding, and trying to solve a problem in a community of yours, and I'm doing this on the league of legends community. Now that that's out of the way the first thing that i i feel like is a problem is the tribunal system. I think it is a very bad way to try to get rid of bad behaviors. many player reviewing cases on the tribunal will not take it seriously (me and my friend both have tried and weren't exactly being very serious about it), and many times the perpetrator will get away with the action making him think that it is OKAY to do it again.
I think that a better way is to have Riot get rid of the tribunal and hire a team to solo make decision on the punishment for bad behaviors. I feel like a team Riot hire will be better at making these kinds of decision. Of course this is just my opinion, so i won't be mad if you disagree and make a reply about it.
Another great way to prevent it is to be an up stander, i know i sound like your high-school health class teacher but if whenever you see a person insulting another, and the rest of the team defend the victim, although the perpetrator will throw a insult at all of you like "w/e" or "you are all stupid", it will most likely get them to be quiet which will make the victim feel better and possibly enjoy the game again.
The third and probably best way to prevent toxicity is to mute the player. for some reason, players seem to cant resist seeing what the perpetrator have to say next. and that causes them to possibly get pretty mad, So if you are ever the victim, just simply click the mute button on that person and move on with your game, the reason the perpetrator keeps on insulting others is because either you are mad over it or you are replying to them. So by muting them, nothing will fuel their anger and he/she will eventually be quiet which at that point you can unmute the player.
I hope this is a help to whoever is reading this whether you are a victim to toxicity or you are toxic yourself, and please make more suggestion on how to fix the issue :D Hope you have a great day in League of Legends. *[slayer-jinx-wink]*
