Are people unaware of the policy against hate speech or something?

This Is Your Dad··2 votes·475 views

You're playing a ranked game and the team doesn't do exactly what you say at all times. You're score is pretty bad but no one is raging at you for anything. Suddenly you start calling people every piece of hate speech in the game with full caps lock. You win the game in spite of all those horrible things you said about your team that happens to be better than you, and you all chat in caps "GG EZ REKT RETARDS"

How can you not realize your account will probably be permabanned? How can you let yourself go that far down the hate train that you spend the entire game throwing hate speech at your own team just to turn around and says gg ez?

Do you have a god complex? Are you that mentally ill and sadistic that you believe raging at a team to that extent will somehow justify your behavior if you win in spite of it all?

You people who throw that kind of caps lock bullshit at people all game make this game really annoying to play, because when you also threaten to feed if we don't conform to how you want to play, you really can't be a good teammate in any sense.

You're either toxic to me all game, or I mute you and in your effort to put me in my place you threaten to feed on top of being an unbearably insufferable douche.

Please, stop using chat as your personal trash vent. A little bit of flame is normal, but this? This is beyond humane.

19 Comments

AJStarhiker3 votes

I suspect in a number of cases, the player has normalized that type of language at home or with friends. They play while sitting at a computer at home and it simply never occurs to them they are, effectively, in a public space while in game. Or the game is heated and they forget to moderate their language. I mean, just look at how often you see "But I say it to my friends all the time!", "I was talking to my friends, not the random!", and similar excuses on these boards.

Kei1431 votes

they probably think it's not hate speech.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

Homophobic slurs should be common sense on the hate speech area, among other things I will not repeat here. It was the worst case I've seen in league except for the occasional death threat or suicide request.

HalcyonDweller2 votes

That sounds terrible. I'm sorry you went through that. Should probably submit a support ticket to ensure that the case gets looked at more immediately.

BoostedMessiah1 votes

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That sounds terrible. I'm sorry you went through that. Should probably submit a support ticket to ensure that the case gets looked at more immediately.

This is good advice, as I've encountered situations where the Instant Feedback system didn't catch particularly egregious displays of racial hate speech in game, but a support ticket alleviated the problem...permanently.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

Personally it doesn't offend me. My bringing this to the boards is more of a wtf moment, because the guy threatened to feed because we weren't reacting to his hate speech. But many people here missed that point too, because I spent less time on it than the initial "How can you be Silver 3 and think this kind of behavior is safe in terms of your account?"

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Oof. Yeah I'm not sure how they thought they could act like that. It's weird that they made it to level 30 with that attitude without being removed. Maybe ranked brings the worst out of them, or maybe it's a sign that they purchased a lvl 30 account to play on.

The likely reason for that dude's threat is an extinction burst. It's a behavioral thing where the person becomes frustrated that their behavior isn't getting their intended reaction, they do it worse in a fit / tantrum, and then give up if it doesn't work. If you reward them with attention at this point though you're only making things ten times worse because you rewarded them for behaving more extremely.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

But ignoring them completely won't make them go away, because that only works if EVERYONE ignores them, and most people don't so they just repeat the action anyway.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

And that is why Riot punishes flaming. Because not only does it contribute negativity to the game overall, but it also feeds the troll.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

So basically to combat trolls, we punish the victims. Seems like there's a problem here.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

No. Don't misuse my reasoning. Flaming hurts everybody. When someone loses their cool and flames, they stop being an innocent victim.

Flaming occurs even when people are simply making poor choices. Just because you THINK someone is a troll doesn't always mean you are right. And if the player is in fact innocent, then flaming them for making genuine mistakes is just as bad as trolling.

BoostedMessiah1 votes

Edgelords. They just can't help themselves.

KVbqbFsC8e1 votes

Not everybody is familiar with Riots system. Why would you expect anyone to be? Most games don't have punishment systems nearly as strict as Leagues.

Rootlo2 votes

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Not everybody is familiar with Riots system. Why would you expect anyone to be? Most games don't have punishment systems nearly as strict as Leagues.

Exactly, most games dont care about this stuff. At most they will just **** the word out. Only in league are people soft enough that words hurt them

This Is Your Dad2 votes

The second part of my post covers the "snowflake" argument. He was mad because we weren't taking offense to it in an aggressive manner and threatened to intentionally feed.

The snowflake argument is like your living space. Not everyone wants to live in a smelly trash heap. So yes, we have the mute feature, an excellent tool. I use it a lot. In turn, the angry teammate then starts running it down mid because no one cares.

The true snowflake is the one that took offense to my playstyle so much so that he had to blow up the chat box, and then when muted proceeds to feed because he's such a man.

Oleandervine1 votes

I'm pretty certain that no matter where you go, hate speech is universally unacceptable.

KVbqbFsC8e1 votes

I'm sure most can agree with that, but in my experience no other online game treats it the same as League. The vast majority of players will never visit these boards, so how would they know that "hate speech" is an automatic two week ban?

Oleandervine1 votes

Well, it's time they learned. If hate speech is so automatic and common in these people's lives that they use it unabashedly, they need to be brought into reality the hard way to learn that their language is unacceptable. If anything, other games should be harder on hate speech than they are.

Pandemic Punch1 votes

It isn't consistent. Some people get banned for saying it ONE time. Other people commit the offense regularly and others even have it in their name. This lack of consistency is what makes the whole system retarded.

If specific words are THAT offensive, then it would be unretarded for Riot to implement a global censorship on, "those" words. There is far less hassle to just censor it.

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