How is disabling allied chat not considered "Refusing to Communicate"?
I'm gonna keep doing it anyway because being unable to type in game means I'll never get banned, I'm just curious.
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Nothing a random has to say in chat is worth reading. Pings communicate everything that needs to be communicated.
It is.
Unfortunately, Riot stopped punishing refusal to communicate years ago.
"Refusing to communicate" was one of the old, bad, undefined Report categories. I don't like the new mute allied chat setting because it's a team game and all that, and muting individually worked fine for me, but as long as you're playing to win, you're playing the game by the rules. Nobody is required to speak to or listen to anyone else.
At least it doesn't disable pings. If someone doesn't want to see chat that's fine but if they want to be entirely deaf to their team then they shouldn't be playing a team game.
I believe that's part of a catchall used for when someone is doing something way outside the norm and what could be considered griefing if not explained. Such as not playing your role and going to another lane instead or sitting in jungle all game and farming.
I remember a few Red posts saying they didn't punish for refusing to communicate when it was still an option. IIRC, they removed it because
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Alternate communications. Premades would use voice chat, which would mean nothing in the chatlogs.
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Muting. If a player muted their team, they wouldn't even know there was anything they needed to respond to.
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The quiet players. Some people just don't talk in chat.
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Once they moved from bans to chat restrictions, punishing for not communication would have double punished people.
Because, as others have already pointed out, chat is mostly useless and you can communicate efficiently with pings the vast majority of the case.
I keep chat on because I like it, but I wouldn't call it objectively useful.