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A Public Broadcast On Player Behavior

hexarte·8/16/2017, 2:22:40 AM·14 votes·1,229 views

Hexarte scrolls through the player behavior boards and blinks. She scrolls back up, blinks again, and again. "Say what!?" She exclaims in disbelief, though due to past games she's played, also believed it. "This is inexcusable." The humanitarian cries aloud to no one around, her heart breaks at seeing the words on the screen. Even the mother bear instinct within her snarls in anger, despite being single and without children. Hexarte replies immediately upon seeing this, and writes out a public broadcast.

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

"Please refrain from using Cyber Harassment. It is considered a crime in the United States and is punishable by law with a hefty fine and jail time. Do you really want to go to prison for a comment you made while playing a game on the web? I wouldn't. So be smart, and be respectful towards both your enemy team and your teammates. Any comments along the line of, "go kill yourself," should be reported immediately to Riot for thorough investigation. Do not retaliate. If you see this happening to a teammate, be the leader and say, "hey! I don't like hearing that being spoken to someone on our team. Putting someone down or demeaning another player affects how the game is played for everyone." Do not let this continue. Your very words could be just the catalyst for someone to commit suicide. That is not tolerable. Every teammate is valuable, every life matters, even yours. Please, please be the leader others want to follow into victory. That is all. Thank you."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

Babe Ruth

"All the talent in the world won't take you anywhere without your teammates."

Anonymous

This was a public broadcast brought to you on behalf of a concerned citizen. Have a fantastic day.

Additional Information

Remember you agreed to a binding legal contract with Riot, giving them the right to ban you if you do not agree to their terms. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's when you first signed up to play League of Legends.

35 Comments

Mösentristana8/16/2017, 5:53:03 AM5 votes

...on the other hand, there is the self-pity of - especially female - players in there. Just this week I had a female premade (with Anime names and all played female characters. Cliché but true) and Anivia was ridiculously bad in everything. I was asking what's with her wall being sideways all the time (and thus worthless) and the response was in short, because it still sticks in my memorie and confuses me on so many levels: "You are the reason why I am suicidal".

Bam! Wait a second. This is wrong on so many levels - but yet so typical for females. Performing bad, playing a (violent/competitive) PvP game with expected environment and then flip the whole thing with the "I iz handicapped" card. Maybe someone should inspect these cases a bit more why people that can't handle these environments play these games. If I can't see blood and gore, I don't watch surgery videos. If you are "suicidal", then go seek help and don't cover in self-pity.

Teamplay can be disrupted by the ragers - but also by highly super sensitive players whose parents died on (insert tragic story here) or whose brother killed himself because of his homosexuality, but man,** what does that have to do with your bad Anivia walls in the game you currently play?!**

Player behaviour should consists EVERYTHING, not just the obvious ragers. Disruptive behaviour can also come from people that love to display their miserable life and make others feel bad by more or less true stories about their bad life. Don't be one-sided all the time and think in a wider spectrum please.

Vulthuryol8/16/2017, 10:25:32 PM3 votes

"Please refrain from using Cyber Harassment. It is considered a crime in the United States and is punishable by law with a hefty fine and jail time. Do you really want to go to prison for a comment you made while playing a game on the web? I wouldn't."

Except I've studied law far more than you have apparently, as you do not appear to understand the crime nor its definition. Also "Using Cyber Harassment" isn't grammatically correct, just to let you know. It would be "Please refrain from harassing people online". Cyber bullying itself isn't even illegal unless it pertains for a while (usually more than a week), typically across multiple platforms - then it can be considered stalking. And of course, if school children do indeed cyber bully, and it's shown to the school, a lot of the time they can get suspended. But that's typically about the most that can be legally done.

You cannot be thrown in prison for a comment you made while playing a game on the web. You never will be. Even if you say pretty nasty shit. The most you'll do is get banned from the game, in this case, you'd get banned from League of Legends. Those working in the field of law have actual serious cases to cover. Missing children, serial killers, murderers, sexual assaults, etc... they don't care about minuscule comments made on an internet game.

Cyber Harassment isn't defined the way you think it is - Cyber Harassment, the law, more pertains to things like doxxing, death threats ("I'll come find you and kill you posts address" or things like sending people pictures of you holding weapons and all the general serial killer-esque stuff), sexual abuse over the internet (look up Austin Jones), etc. Cyber bullying, which is what you appear to be describing in every post you've made about this sort of thing, is not even close to the level of stuff the actual law itself covers, so the argument you're attempting to shut people down with... has a fundamental error. And has no point due to that.

I do agree with your narrative of being anti-toxicity in League, on a very basic level it makes some sense, as I myself am incredibly suicidal and being flamed the amount I tend to be just for being new to the game doesn't help. However comparing what is a very serious thing such as Austin Jones' child pornography and sexual abuse of young children... to cyber bullying in League... that's not a fair comparison, is it?

Threatening someone with legal punishment or to send the cops after them is also technically cyber bullying in itself, especially if the person did nothing wrong in the first place and it was a misunderstanding (then you become the bad guy). Which you seem to be using the definition of Cyber Harassment for, so you're uh... you're breaking your own self-made law. Just a heads up, haha.

You seem to be attributing what typically is minor cyber bullying to the punishment of severe cyber harassment, stalking/doxxing, and sexual abuse.

I would not recommend doing so in the future - especially if you find yourself around any form of law enforcement, or ESPECIALLY if you find yourself around someone who was a victim of cyber harassment (doxxing/sexual abuse or manipulation/etc.). The police would tell you wrong and correct you, but the victims wouldn't be as happy.

Either way. I appreciate you trying to stop toxicity, since it benefits people like me who get flamed daily... but this really isn't the way to do it.

TonyTonyMordecai8/16/2017, 4:23:43 AM3 votes

I don't understand how/why people use the "kill yourself" phrase without some remorse, because it is a really mean thing to say, and I've reported (and received notices of report feedback) more people these past couple months than my whole 4 years of playing this game (minus a year break after I got bullied in an intermediate bot match. yes, a bot match, because I was still a new player and didn't know anything about proper builds or what other champions did). It still amazes me how people tell us to have thicker skin towards inflammatory comments like "kys" and other things, when that same thing can be said to them: have some thick skin to not even type it out. It makes you seem childish when you need to throw insults to make yourself feel superior.

Soraka is SO HOT8/16/2017, 4:48:46 AM3 votes

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Even the mother bear instinct within her snarls in anger, despite being single and without children. Hexarte replies immediately upon seeing this, and writes out a public broadcast.

This got me giggling. ^_^

Cielveon8/16/2017, 3:07:55 AM2 votes

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hexarte8/17/2017, 1:41:42 AM2 votes

I'm sorry everyone for causing so much discord and chaos. I'm sorry I'm wrong. I'm not sorry for caring and being me, but I can't take it anymore. Please ignore this thread and move on in your lives. Be happy and respectful of your other players for me, ok? I guess I care too much and feel too deeply for this world to understand.

I'm glad to have met and played alongside each and everyone of you. Have fun.

It's been a gg.

Telephone Booth8/18/2017, 1:59:46 AM1 votes

Hexarte... can you please reply to my message from another thread? I felt like we were having a nice, mature conversation and I wanted to know your opinion on my views of the subject, but you stopped responding. :/ I just wanted to know what you think, not to refute anything.

Master Noct8/17/2017, 2:52:11 AM1 votes

This all stems down to one thing.

Some people should really shut the fuck up, or not say anything at all, if it isn't productive.

ClapYour8/16/2017, 4:18:52 AM1 votes

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