So, to call it reform, you're implying that the people are horribly out of line, and are basically along the lines of a criminal, yeah?
"Reform" doesn't imply how bad a person is, it just implies that they were bad to some degree, and need improving. If you Google "Reform Definition", one of the results is this:
"make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it."
This means that, the player's behavior was negative/unsatisfactory, and reform implies only that, and that they are working to improve it.
Now... most people I see being banned weren't doing anything wrong, they were just frustrated and venting
I'm not sure we're really on the same page here. The majority of people I've seen banned were banned rightly - they were insulting their teammates, flaming out the ass, and being general jerks. And, on top of that, if they really needed to vent, they could do so outside of the game, so they don't subject their teammates to their own tilt.
why is that so hated in League's community?
Negativity has a sort of domino effect. Once one person starts ranting and raving about how shitty the match is going for them, it creeps into everyone else, making them negative, making them play worse - until the whole match was brought down by one person tilting off the face of the earth.
I wouldn't personally say it's hated - frowned upon, certainly, but hated seems like an exaggeration.
I mean people pretend it's a sport and all that, right? Well, in real life, real sports have a lot of frustration involved.
And that frustration is kept off the field, and even then, channelled wrongly, can still lead to punishments for the frustrated party.
Why is being human and having emotions frowned upon?
It isn't, and it isn't.
Why do you need to "reform" into an emotionless zombie?
Come the hell on, is being positive, or at the very least, composing yourself, that bad, that dull?
It's not about giving up on your emotions, it's about knowing how to channel them properly, how to hold yourself back from letting them out unduly. There is a middle-ground between a temper tantrum and cold emotionlessness, you know. It's called "normalcy".
And a second question that's sort of related... why in the world do you straight up ban someone for saying a trigger word?
Oh, great. This topic.
Quick word of warning - the following paragraphs will undoubtedly be heated. I mean all the respect I can maintain to the OP, but the sheer ignorance of what I'm replying to makes it very, very hard to remain composed.
Do you know the history of some of those trigger words? Those racist and homophobic slurs? Do you know the weight those words carry because of the people who were oppressed, dehumanized, segregated, and MURDERED because of the differences those instances of hate speech encapsulate?
And what about threats of violence, or encouragements of self-harm - do you really, REALLY think it's okay for people to tell others to kill themselves, to want to kill another person, over a videogame?
Like... that's just absurd.
Questioning the rules and policies against those terms is what's absurd.
And it's not "instantly banned" - first offenders for hate speech and encouragements of self-harm are treated with a 14-day ban when the report's been verified. Anything after that - even if it isn't hate speech - if it's verified as punishable, then they get permabanned.
And if you think Riot's policies against hate speech are asinine, you are absolutely free to not play their game.
Honestly, that kind of attitude is just really, really vain.
Not as vain as the "I should be allowed to say anything I want with no repercussions" mentality. Just sayin'.
To support it is just... wrong.
No? Riot understands the weight of hate speech, they don't want it in their game so people don't have to deal with such horrible, awful words with inhumanly terrible histories. How is it wrong to support it?
Instead, encourage people to not worry about what others think.
......Is this just another variant of that "people need thicker skin" argument? If it is:
More often than not, it's not about people caring about what others think, it's more that they think the person they're reporting is an asshole.
Honestly, I think the majority of the League community has the whole "not worrying what others think" thing on lock.
But, I know no one cares. Being a little asshole about something as benign as a word is the "cool" thing to do now...
......Pardon me again, I'm pretty pissed.
DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DEFENDING THE USE OF?
It isn't "benign", it is HATE SPEECH. HATE. SPEECH. It is as malign as you can get in a godsdamned language.
and vanity is now a virtue instead of the flaw it's been for thousands of years.
What? Okay, explain to me how Riot serving their community as a whole is vain.
