Can we have the option to mute pings please?

The MechE·3/12/2017, 5:01:21 PM·7 votes·491 views

I know pings are valuable for communication, but so is chat, and sometimes neither are used in a way that makes me want to allow certain players on my team to communicate with me using those methods.

For example, sometimes as jungler after a gank and kill I will push the wave into the tower. There's a reason I do that, and I really hate it when people spam back pings at me when I do that.

Another example is when my laner has gone back after a gank, and I'm just last hitting the minions that would otherwise die to enemy minion attacks. I'm just last hitting man. I don't need to be spammed 500 times with back pings.

Another example is when people spam question mark pings on you to BM you. Can we please have the option to mute pings?

6 Comments

Magical Player3/12/2017, 5:23:49 PM1 votes

ping spam consists of 5 pings in short duration then ping locked for awhile its far less than 500, just saying

fatherdarius3/13/2017, 12:37:46 AM1 votes

I'm in zero way defending the ping spammers, but I have a question.

I know you have reasons for pushing the lane, but ultimately, isn't it up to the person in lane that should be the one deciding if they want to push/freeze/trim/proxy?

They're the person in lane... they (in theory) should know what they want to do with the waves based on their matchup.

That being said, I never care if a jungler pushes. Gives me a chance to recall.

Perhaps communication? "Hey Top/bot/mid... When I gank I'd like to push your lane cuz counter-jungle/dragon/herald/deep wards/wave-management, etc.. is that cool with ya'll?"

More flies with honey than vinegar...

Kaliska3/13/2017, 6:00:21 AM1 votes

My group and I always have this problem and we all complain about it when it occurs, as not all five of us are on at the same time we usually play in groups of 3-4 leaving 1-2 randoms in our game. What we find is that people use a question mark ping, pinging us when we make a bad play. There is no reason to repeatedly ping one of us if we make a mistake, we know when we make mistakes. Using pings to rub it in is rather childish. We've skyped with one of these types of players and it wasn't a good time, although we were in a call he still chose pings rather than asking me why I made that decision and just called me names. Reported him afterwards and hung up the call, but you can't mute pings. There was another time where we were playing with a Cassiopea who was chat blocked ( I learned this after I contacted him afterwards to ask why he used his pings incorrectly ), so it was no surprise to us when he ping harassed us and when he could chat he only called us names.

This incorrect use, "Ping harassment" should be something addressed by Riot in either a new report option or ping blocking, although they are busy there are things they should put more of their attention to.