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Should I be concerned or just block?

FluffyUnicorn·9/7/2018, 7:22:04 PM·1 votes·2,524 views

Had someone add me today that I played with last night. The conversation was bizarre (have screenshots but don't want to name and shame) to say the least, something along the lines of some girl blocking him and I should feel bad because all women are terrible and I MUST be just like all of them even though he knows nothing about me or who I am (pretty sure I didn't even type the game I played with him). I guess he claims that all of league is "toxic and fake" and people should only say nice things if they mean it. Honestly, his thoughts weren't super coherent to me. But that's not what this is about really.

Generally, I would just tag it up to your standard harassment and move on, but he mentioned a couple times about how he would welcome dying and it would set him free. Now I'm not a fan of getting swarmed with toxic messages, but I'm genuinely worried about this kids safety like he doesn't seem stable. What do I even do in this instance? I encouraged him to find someone irl to talk to as well as take a break from the game, but I thought it was worth seeing if there was somewhere I could submit this to riot. He may be annoying me, but I don't want the possibility of him actually killing himself while I was given warning signs. I honestly don't know if he is being over-reactive or not.

Someone help.

Update: he deleted me but I still don't know what to do in this case.

3 Comments

DrCyanide9/7/2018, 7:28:07 PM6 votes

I'd bring it up with Support, attach your screenshots, and see if they can find a way to reach out to the guy in a more helpful manner.

From my own experience, I'd take it very seriously. I had someone open up to me like that about 11 years ago, and it became pretty clear they were on the edge. After a few emails back and forth I found out he was hearing his ex-...crush?'s voice mocking him and telling him to either just die already or to commit mass murder. He'd opened up enough to me I was able to give information over to the police and they were able to get him some help.

Basically he might be reaching out to you, a random stranger, right now instead of the suicide hotline. It's a step in the right direction for him, but he probably needs some help getting all the way to the help he needs.

zPOOPz9/7/2018, 7:45:22 PM1 votes

You should send those ss to support and let them deal with it according to their policy. It could had been someone depressed and just looking for someone to talk to and picked the least toxic person in his game or someone drunk out of his mind and say random things or a bored troll.

Get Ogre Here9/7/2018, 8:04:23 PM1 votes

I'm gonna say the same thing as everyone else and say send a ticket to support. It's really good that you're actually taking consideration to this and are trying to help, if this happened to me I'd probably just try to talk to them but not escalate it any further and let them go on their way, which is probably the wrong way to go about it. Good luck leading him on the road to recovery!