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Toxic Community

Mistix·2/21/2020, 6:13:35 PM·1 votes·2,656 views

So, I dont even know where to start.

I've played a lot of league during the last month, and I've made a lot of reports during the last month.Those reports only include the following, toxic (kys etc.), runnning it down and intentionally afk-ing. The others, i do not care about. If you go 0/20, and if you're trying, I'll just tryhard more. Let's say the number of those reports exceeds the number 20. I haven't gotten a single notification about a player punishment, which you ocassionally get, after a succesful penalty was made. I'm a regular player, with a steady job, that spends quite a lot of money for this game. But I'm less and less intrested in playing in such a toxic enviorment. I know most of the player base is teenagers, who're toxic af, but strict punishements make a better community.

Do something about it, it's less and less fun to play in this enviorment, especially if you keep on hearing that you should kill yourself.

8 Comments

Imperial Pandaa2/21/2020, 6:29:31 PM5 votes

The system has always been finicky and inconsistent for feedback reports at best. There are both things we know and don't know about his it works. We know it is supposed send a report to those who made valid contributing reports, but that is where it gets weird.

We don't know the specifics on how it tracks. For example, if Jim, Jill, and Sam report Carl; but Sam technically reported first and it was decided valid, we don't know what happens with Jim and Jill's since the game has been reviewed and ruled valid (remember only 1 report is needed to flag a game). Logically to us the answer should be "it keeps that knowledge stored,"but why would it? The system already judged the game, why does it need to log the specifics of how many in that game reported (specifically reported to be specific).

Quiet Dude2/21/2020, 6:18:12 PM3 votes

  1. Notifications that a player you reported got consequences is pretty rare.

  2. You can disable chat from appearing if it is effecting you so. If not, you can mute those folks in game.

  3. Keep reporting folks

  4. That behavior is typical of your region, not justifying it, just an observation

  5. Toxic people suck, but if you're letting it get to you... [sg-ahri-2]

hyperion31822/21/2020, 8:24:28 PM2 votes

I simply think you are playing too much at the moment, exacerbating your confirmation/negativity biases.

Looks like you have played 250 games in the last month. That would mean you reported 20 players over 1000 (maybe more if reported opposing players). Thats 2% of negative players if we consider you absolutely didnt fuel/trigger anything and have justly evaluated 1000 players. Take any sample of people on the planet, from a firm, a school, a cruise ship, nightclub attendees etc, I guess you will always a tiny percentage of disruptive behavior.

Year after year after year we read "dead game" "toxic community" but its still there, still making money. Toxic compared to what? Another game? A generic group of human beings that will always contain disruptors? "Toxic community" doesnt mean anything if you think about it, because theres no point of comparison.

Would you believe Coca Cola, Kia, Red Bull, State Farm, American Express, even Luis Vuitton? Do you really believe they would associate their brand with a "toxic" Community and a company that doesnt know what they are doing? How about Rockets and Golden State or Schalke or Airbus? Would they invest? For one useless real toxic player, they know there are X times more casual players, fans, cosplayers, attendees, consumers, streamers etc.

Everyone can have a bad day, thats why Instant Feedback System is a strike system. Most of the time, its a heated incident that wont happen again. Lastly, my guts tell me that this bad image is actually mostly due to a few thousands players around the world. A few thousands truly horrible toxic players who truly have 50-60-100 permabanned accounts but keep polluting the experience of millions of players by ripple effect. Either they are the most pathetic trolls and/or have a mental issues/unhealthy addiction. These few thousands players are damaging the image whereas millions are neutral/positive.

One addicted chronic toxic player playing 10 games per day, flaming in /all = 99 players who will have a bad experience. Because of ONE player, NINETY NINE may think what a shitty community.

RibbyTheButcher2/22/2020, 9:19:58 AM1 votes

I recommend turning off chat and refusing to communicate with the degenerates that play this game (most of them in my experience). You will be better off that way.

Karn Bishop2/22/2020, 3:45:26 PM1 votes

If you report too much the system ignores all your reports even if its reporting death threats, it doesn't matter if every report was legitimate it goes against your internal "credibility" score.