Please allow us to be able to disable commenting ingame (can only be undone out of game) so that we wont be tempted to flame others if we know that we're going be flaming all game.
If you know you're going to be flaming all game, then, I have to ask; why play, or, moreover, why can't you fight that urge?
Beyond that, I'm sincerely doubtful that you know which matches you're going to flame in before they begin, so either you're going to have yourself permanently chat muted, or you're going to slip up in one of the matches you were confident you could keep your cool in. And in the latter case, the whole "self-mute" thing is kinda pointless.
And, even in the case that you have yourself permanently muted; that's pretty frickin' detrimental to the game, and unnecessary since you can develop the restraint to not flame; instead, you're choosing to handicap yourself and others over actually trying to reform, which isn't something that Riot would want. Hence, why they don't have a self-mute feature - they want you to reform and not flame, not slap a band-aid on the problem.
Another way to look at it is this; if you're a compulsive flamer and can't help but to flame constantly, you are not Riot's target audience. They're not going to make concessions for a subset of players they don't want to keep. It's harsh, but it's true. Riot wants players to play by the rules, and they're not going to have features tailor-made for those that don't.
The system can alert our team mates that we have disabled comments, then they to can instead ping us rather than flame us.
Isn't the problem you flaming them? Even still, giving teammates an alert telling them that one of their teammates opted to mute themselves for lack of restraint may well lead to you getting griefed through pingspam or other such heckling.
And then that'd tilt you further, and that brings us to another problem with permanent muting; Riot previously tried indefinitely-scaling chat restrictions before, and players with longer-duration chat restrictions largely turned to trolling to "make a point" to their teammates. You may not be one such player who'd do that, but trust me, disabling you from flaming doesn't disable you from breaking the rules and ruining the game in other ways.
And personally, I'd rather not see an uptick in trolls or intentional-feeders for any reason, especially not because they opted for a self-mute.
Then we can always enable comments when we are ready to behave ourselves.
When? If you're prone to flaming, how can you say for certain when you're ready to behave yourself? If you're not ready to do so now, how could you really be expected to after however long of being self-muted?
This community is shit at the moment, something needs to be done.
Allowing players to mute themselves isn't that something. Self-muting hinges its effectiveness on a player's ability to be aware of their own toxicity; a trait which few people seem to have. And the costs would generally outweigh the benefits, since it'd hamper communication and potentially increase trolling/feeding cases in exchange for a small minority of the community being able to prevent themselves from being toxic without reforming.
