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This is a reply to one of the posts I saw on this thread that I think everyone should honestly read.

Gear4GangPlank·5/30/2018, 1:22:54 AM·1 votes·1,367 views

I know that toxicity is a bad thing and it is, I sometimes do it myself. Especially in this game alone. but Dealing with toxicity as an individual, not only in this game, is what makes you more of a grown person and you're wrong to say that toxic people ruin a community. Here's why

CS:GO is one of the most played games in the world along with League. Yet I can tell you from experience that CS:GO Has an insanely better community than league as well as being one of the most balanced games there is, something riot wishes to ever achieve. And you know what CS:GO doesn't do?? They don't frantically summon bully hunters on someone when a player calls someone stupid. Valve expects people to honestly just be grown up and handle it themselves by MUTING them. And I don't think I have ever had a team in League of Legends as good as I've had in CS:GO. Even when I'm doing bad. This is because people who take it upon themselves to solve these types of issues when they can, are generally smarter. They're smart enough to observe what toxicity does to a team. So instead of calling upon Allah to smite thee. They just mute people and carry the knowledge that being nice to people helps a team. THIS is why in higher ELO in CS:GO. You honestly have the best teams you'll ever have in any competitive game.

See the thing is that people who react like little kids are the reason why verbal harassment (which is the only type of harassment you can experience in a game) is an issue in the first place. The entire point of harassment is to provoke a reaction. So why flip out and cry for riot to help you. When you can LITERALLY do it yourself.

The only toxic behavior I think should be dealt with is stuff like feeding.

3 Comments

AeroWaffle5/30/2018, 2:10:00 AM6 votes

I mute to prevent further annoyance in the game. But they're still in my game and I'm obligated to stick around to finish for the sake of game integrity.

I report so that future players don't have to subject themselves to this person who has shitty behavior.

mlm olo mlm5/30/2018, 3:36:56 AM1 votes

AKA it takes work to be a good person. Neutral doesn't cut it.

SirBarthoIomew5/30/2018, 7:48:40 AM1 votes

I agree with this to an extent. Things like hate speech, slurs, threats, etc. need some kind of punishment. But "RITO he said mean things to me" really shouldn't be a punishable offence in a game that's not rated E for Everyone. This account I'm typing on can't play the game because I called a troll childish but, since I had a 14 day ban around 2 months ago, I got a perma ban because said troll reported me. The bot picked up on "negative" words and "harassment" and issued the ban. The troll also got punished as I reported him for calling our team trash, telling us to kill ourselves and other things. But the fact is, that as long as people get punished for saying mean words in a text chat, people will continue to report everyone who swears, says anything with a hint of negativity or even just disagrees with them. And those reports might not have a lot of "validity" but when there's more trolls and toxic flamers in the game than normal, functioning players, those kinds of reports stack up and can lead to punishment if their is "negativity" present as that is now a punishable offence in this game. Yes, you can mute. But what good does that do if you're just 1v9 your entire League career because you can't trust 1.) the other players in League and 2.) the auto punish system for detecting malicious behavior and just negativity brought on by malicious behavior? I currently have all chat disabled on an alternate account and I STILL have to refrain from typing because you get the trolls on your team as well. Yesterday, an Alistar didn't like that the other team had a Zed. Know what he did? Ran down mid, danced in lane and fed. Yes, I reported and muted him after he started throwing out slurs, calling us all trash, etc. Point being that you have to actually disable chat or be ready to mute any of your team mates at a moments notice.