Reducing Toxicity Suggestion: Disable All Chat

Lioness Rampant·4/11/2016, 12:12:00 AM·1 votes·478 views

League being having an overwhelming toxic community is well known and I believe the remove of All Chat during games would help reduce some of that negativity.

I've recently asked a few people during my games if they would support the idea of removing all chat from games and most agreed it would help reduce the toxicity of players and the only reasons I got for those that opposed it was that:

  1. They enjoyed listening to the other team complain or hassling them.
  2. To say Good game or Good luck or praise the enemy team.

The first answer seems to only prove my point but the second one does make a valid point even if the chat is for hate more than praise it's still viable, My suggestion is that Riot remove All Chat during the game and instead allow cross team chat during load-in and/or their post game lobby. This will allow people to say their good lucks and good games while minimizing in-game taunting and while it won't help with people being toxic to their own team I believe they are less likely to flame their team when they don't get provoked by the enemy team.

Footnote: I'm aware All Chat can be turned off and I do have mine off normally but many of my teammates do not and end up on tilt because of enemy harassment which results in them being toxic with their team or typing instead of playing.

TL;DR Should Riot disable All Chat during games to help decrease toxicity?

4 Comments

SmokedAlmonds4/11/2016, 12:27:10 AM1 votes

People can disable their own all chat if they want that. I don't really see any reason to disable it for everyone. Honestly, the overwhelming majority of toxicity I have seen was between teammates anyway.

Zorasama4/11/2016, 12:31:10 AM1 votes

It's actually disbled by default, so just stay away from it.

Erdrik4/11/2016, 1:22:45 AM1 votes

Im not opposed to removing all chat. But thats because Ive never really seen the point or use of it anyway.

As far as what impact it will have on toxicity? None in the slightest.