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By the time I've muted someone, I feel like it's too late.

Unstoppable Axe·6/14/2017, 2:00:19 AM·1 votes·356 views

I'm making this post to vent a bit about my feelings when it comes to toxicity in this game, hopefully this can open up some dialogue on how to deal with toxicity and the causes and effects of it. I can't help but feel like as of late, when I mute someone who is being toxic, I've already let it effect me. It honestly doesn't matter how toxic anything they said was, or if it was silly and the people behind the screen don't really mean it or don't really matter, It still bothers me that they even said anything toxic in the first place. It genuinely makes me want to /mute all at the start of every game, but I feel like a lot of the time that takes the soul out of the game for me. I want to see the back and fourth in chat, I want to hear people's opinion on the game and it's champions, and I want to experience the community because that's a big part of what league is to me. I just wish there was some sort of solution that could be offered, even though I know there probably isn't one. Thanks for listening to my rant, I'd like to hear how you guys cope with toxicity before you hit the mute button, and I hope we can work together to make League of Legends a better game for everyone.

4 Comments

Gibberwatt6/14/2017, 2:13:49 AM3 votes

Honestly, I just find it funny. I compare it to my real life, where people actually comment based on my personality/characteristics. Their opinions actually mean something.

In contrast, the 4-9 people in each game have no idea who I am - I could be a 6 foot tall nigerian prince (lol), or a 4-6 white girl with nerd glasses (I'm not). Really, I could be anyone, and they have no idea who I am, other than that I am really bad at nocturne that game. So, basically, their comments have absolutely no basis on me, and should be considered fictional. Like a stand-up comedy, or add-libing.

And I also feel bad for those people, who get so worked up over a bad game that they tell people to 'get cancer', 'kys', and other wonderful things. Honestly, the only time I would bring out that vocabulary would be is if someone, like, pooped in my aquarium, or some other similar attrocity. These people must have nothing to compare the game to, if they act so aggresively for such a triffling occurance. It's sad, really.

Finn Teh Human6/14/2017, 6:47:57 AM2 votes

Like Gibberwatt said, normally people who are toxic don't say and can't say anything about you personally. Buuuut I found that making the chat scale the smallest so I couldn't easily read it or see when someone said something has really been good for me. You could try that.