Soft Inting is the Future
Let's give a round of applause to all the people at Riot who helped pushed this into reality.
Now this is just my arm chair psychology but when you make a system and rules in an attempt to eliminate all flaming what do you think is going to happen?
I don't think most people flame for the sake of flaming. They flame because they are angry. Now whether that anger is warranted or not is a different matter. The point is someone is angry.
Well now assuming the angry person isn't stupid, how would said person communicate this anger to another person without using words?
Why just soft int the person.
As long as you don't do anything blantent like running it down or some shit then you are pretty much golden.
Did people soft int before for others reasons? Idk probably
But when you can't flame a person then what's the next best thing to spite that person? (or this case actually worse)
So congratulations to everyone who helped make create an environment where people won't flame you when their angry with you. Instead they try to lose you the game.