League community makes you a bad person

AriCei·7/12/2017, 5:35:23 AM·3 votes·480 views

When I started playing league, I was competitive but positive. After years of wading through every game of sarcastic, trolling, immature, backhanded BS, now I'm just a part of the problem. I take breaks, weeks, months on end. Come back feeling optimistic, and the first game is all trolls minus my duo, who immediately start spewing insults every time you offer legitimately helpful advice. I've played hundreds and hundreds of games, and I can count on 1 hand the number of times someone has responded maturely and positively to a preemptive statement about laying down vision, or positioning etc. (that is to say helpful information, phrased in a positive way, and not "oh you should have done this" or "aw why would you do this?".

Now I'm pretty over it and only play as a force of habit. Nobody could even be nice to me because I'd just expect them to be trolling or waiting to burst into insults and negativity at any moment. It's partly the internet in general is full of people like this, because it breeds them by destroying decent people. Spreads like a disease.

So give me my chat bans, 50% from instigating, 50% from community ganging up on you when you defend yourself. And queue all the sheep "if you got chat bans then that means you're just a bad person, Rito system is perfect".

9 Comments

J4 Ulted Mexico7/12/2017, 5:39:45 AM5 votes

There a bountiful amount of people who play this game and don't feel the need to insult the strangers they're playing with.

Pennywise Main7/12/2017, 5:50:23 AM3 votes

Just do what I do. Hop on a smurf, tank that bitch's MMR down to Bronze V and main Teemo, Nunu and Shaco.

You wouldn't believe what kind of a stress relief it is to slap bronzies around.

ModPeriscope7/12/2017, 5:59:18 AM3 votes

Everyone else deals with the same set of circumstances. You can either increase the problem or not.

TheViper79117/12/2017, 5:41:11 AM2 votes

Try being an adult with self control.

Hondom7/12/2017, 6:07:37 AM1 votes

Play Dota. It's worse

verysalt7/12/2017, 8:01:58 AM1 votes

Same here, I never been "toxic" before this game. Honestly, I learned acronyms like kys, wtf etc. etc. here in the game.

In my opinion, one of the biggest mistakes RIOT does is allowing trolls and feeders in the game, they are the cornerstone for people getting upset and becoming "toxic". RIOT tries to remove "toxic" players but they keep an eye on cause of it.

AriCei7/13/2017, 3:14:26 AM1 votes

To all the "be a strong adult"ers: here is my COMPLETELY UNEDITED chat log of the game that got me banned: It's hilariously tame compared to what the others were saying to me, and also, not super rude imo. Slightly negative, but I'm never flaming anyone etc.

I was playing botlane with my friend, who doesn't really type.

Game 2 AriCei: i am also a box enthusiast AriCei: this what happens when you take 5 mins to get here AriCei: :D AriCei: laters

(this was me not having time to leash for the jg who afkd at fountain until waves had already met- me and my duo then went to a very difficult lane matchup when toplaner started complaining about me randomly)

AriCei: pre rough lane early wont lie AriCei: also wait who were you that you muted me last game :/ AriCei: LOL AriCei: :D AriCei: welp i wasnt rlly negative and you were legit inting. so i guess we just mute eachother now. gl! AriCei: the rumble AriCei: bein pissy about last game i guess

(he told me who he was, a guy who was legitimately intentionally feeding the other team and harassing teammates, me included)

AriCei: ps bot is getting shoved haaard eh? AriCei: o darn AriCei: try AriCei: ty&** AriCei: lol AriCei: wp. AriCei: too ez AriCei: ? AriCei: aaaaanyways AriCei: that first towert gold eh? AriCei: lol aight AriCei: sure. AriCei: i rlly gotta stop doing late game team carries AriCei: fkn cc tho lol AriCei: lol. AriCei: like they are on our inhib AriCei: and this is our fault. AriCei: you are letting them walk all over this lane AriCei: LOOKIT OUR PICKS AriCei: of course we did AriCei: we got the first kill which we had no business doing AriCei: watch the map dude.

(that is where the rest of the team gangs up on us, blaming us for the caitlyn zyra or some such destroying us early game. I pinged summoners, we gave up wave after wave when no one came. They were under our tower all game with no summs. We died maybe a total of 3 times combined, but were down crazy farm. And of course they got caught out on every roam.)

AriCei: its a losing lane AriCei: esp when given free reign lol AriCei: w/e AriCei: enjoy the loss AriCei: yep. that;s me. AriCei: stop being toxic dude

(Me responding to hard-flaming towards me and my friend)

AriCei: lol 3 AriCei: but pls do AriCei: gives me a reason to not waste my time here anymore AriCei: and it still doesnt make you right AriCei: this isnt grade school

(Responding to "we're all going to report and you're gonna get banned lololol" mentality)

AriCei: lol. AriCei: yw AriCei: flame me then call me toxic. logic op AriCei: i never flamed... AriCei: lol. AriCei: nope AriCei: i typed AriCei: didnt flame

(look at the above and tell me where i wasn't trying to explain my opinion about my difficulties- relatively calmly in the face of their childish insults and flaming)

AriCei: was pre fkn tame flaming if thats what you wanna call it AriCei: you just dont like commuinication AriCei: thats mb. AriCei: lol AriCei: ^ AriCei: right. AriCei: take a look at yourselves and your superiority complex here AriCei: right AriCei: this has gotten weird

(Once they start on the tired old lines about how big a loser in real life I am, etc etc.)

AriCei: sorry you are incapable of a discussion AriCei: im out lol AriCei: not going to argue with children. AriCei: never shoulda been an arguement AriCei: :D AriCei: bullying is real in this game lol

(Finally, after 30 some minutes of enduring their harassment, i crack and get pretty sarcastic- but even at my worst here, I'm not sure it's that toxic)

AriCei: mb AriCei: dw blame all on me AriCei: to feel better about yourselves AriCei: :D AriCei: wp AriCei: haha wp AriCei: lol mb for feeding annie AriCei: ty AriCei: honoured AriCei: lol AriCei: dat tunnel vision AriCei: free bron now AriCei: oh well AriCei: mb AriCei: just dump waves AriCei: heehee AriCei: always forget about a sneaky teemo AriCei: good shit lol AriCei: no more bron AriCei: wait how am i now leading in farm :/ AriCei: weird AriCei: LOL AriCei: yep AriCei: i thought we didnt rlly care about that kind of thing anymore tho :/ AriCei: since i got flamed before for trying to save base :D AriCei: LOL AriCei: o dam gg AriCei: teemo mvp AriCei: wpwp

I will admit I've been worse in some games, and I've also been better, but this is a good middle example. Seriously, I EXTREMELY rarely resort to empty, direct insults, and when I do, it's almost exclusively "bronzie" or "noob", often with "fkns" littered throughout, which if mature people can't handle in banter between each other, our society has bigger problems.

I NEVER EVER tell people to kill themselves or tell them i hope their family dies. I don't make assumptions about them as real people. I ALWAYS have a helpful message in my "flaming" at the very least, though it may not always come out as positive as I'd like it to.

Anyways. I'm curious to see if any of the responders with superiority messages change their minds after this..