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Taking the High Road

LeastMartin·9/10/2016, 2:00:15 PM·2 votes·496 views

I'm getting really bothered by these posts that essentially keep saying, "No matter how belligerently awful people are during your game, you need to just ignore it and accept it. Just say GG man. Be the bigger person."

Now, I don't think arguing with someone or feeding into the negativity is any better (in fact it's worse) but turning the other cheek just isn't an effective way to challenge the behavior that is running rampant in League.

I get especially annoyed when people tell me, "It's just ARAM, or it's_ just_ hexakill (for example). If I'm playing something chill like that, I want to have fun. I don't care what game mode it is: if you are ruining the experience for other people you should be reprimanded. What kind of message are we sending when we just "accept" toxic behavior. Every time someone says, "That's just League, you're going to run into toxic players, you just gotta roll with it" it perpetuates the terrible environment that is League of Legends. I'm tired of this "boys will be boys" attitude the community is accepting. Enough's enough. I don't want to just accept this toxic behavior anymore.

Sorry for the rant, and for not proposing tangible solutions. And I'm prepared to be downvoted into oblivion. It just seems like every other game somebody is being a douche and nothing ever changes. And every time someone complains they're just told to quit whining. (Which I'm sure I'll be told to do.)

[Originally posted incorrectly in Miscellaneous]

7 Comments

EvilDustMan9/10/2016, 2:24:33 PM2 votes

You aren't ignoring it. We are saying, don't respond to it. At the end, report the behavior. That isn't ignoring it. No one is saying don't report people. But fighting back doesn't help.

Jbels9/10/2016, 3:16:14 PM2 votes

When you look at it objectively, taking the high ground does not put us on equal footing regarding personal reward. They get to act like toxic idiots to their heart's content, and we have to sit there and take it, and then push a button next to their name at the end of the ruined experience, report them, and watch as nothing happens to them because they aren't "Toxic enough" to get hit by the system. In my honest opinion, if you were toxic AT ALL, you deserve punishment. There's a difference between being in a bad mood and sending passive agressive remarks to everyone about their gameplay, and then straight up cursing people out in chat or using racial slurs.

Why does Riot only feel compelled to punish toxicity when it occurs MORE THAN ONCE? This sends the message of "I can do this as long as I don't over do it"

Kei1439/10/2016, 2:17:14 PM1 votes

Don't know if it will make you feel better, but Riot is looking to improve on the behavioral system's visibility, but of course we won't see it until the new client is up and running smoothly.

I'm crossing my fingers that there will be features to see how effective our reports are and some visibility indicator / warning that a punishment is near for the toxics.

Hopefully with that, people will be more aware of the behavioral system and back off more.