Mute Pings of Abusive Players

Monterey·Feb 8, 2017·3 votes·602 views

Can we please have the ability to mute the pings of certain players in our game? This happens more often in lower elo, where I play (Gold)- and people when they get frustrated just spam pings because it can't be muted. It is one of the most triggering things in the game. I understand that RIOT doesn't want to discourage player to player communication, but I feel like if you trigger that red text that says, "You can't issue anymore pings," more than a few times during a game, I should get the option to mute it. My only other solution to this has been to mute the game sound entirely, which punishes other players because one person can't handle theirself. I know I can't be the only other person that runs into this thing, and it seems like such an easy fix, too. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

4 Comments

SarutobiFeb 8, 20171 votes

I think if someone gets the message it should lock them out for a certain time and then if they keep doing it lock them out for longer. They shouldn't mute them mainly because of everyone definition of spamming ping. I've had people yell at me for not pinging enough and even had people complain about me pinging too much despite me usually only pinging about 2-3 times.

MontereyFeb 9, 20171 votes

And people shouldn't sit there and ping missing enemy at you fifty times in a row because you missed a skill shot. That's abuse.

SarutobiFeb 9, 20171 votes

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And people shouldn't sit there and ping missing enemy at you fifty times in a row because you missed a skill shot. That's abuse.

True, it's also reportable. So what's the deal?

Baka RedFeb 10, 20172 votes

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True, it's also reportable. So what's the deal?

I suspect the 'deal' is at least partially in the report system. First of all, reporting is done after the match and thus it does nothing to help against the ping spam during the match. Second reason is that we don't see any perceivable results from the report; either we just don't see anything resulting from it or it actually does nothing; take your pick. Either way, we the players don't see the observed harasser punished in any way for the report.

Ping mute would be immediate and kind-of-perceivable defense against ping spam. Therefore I agree with the OP that option to mute pings from selected player would be a good thing to have. Also, a limiter of one ping per player per minute or so, might also be nice