Asking you to report someone toxic is not in itself toxic....
I was called toxic for asking the enemy to report my toxic teammates when I did nothing wrong. Asking you to report toxic people is not in itself toxic....
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You can say that all you like, but that isn't true for everyone. You can decide what offends you, but you can't decide what other people are offended by.
Trying to coerce others into reporting players is both harassment and entirely unnecessary. The system only needs 1 report to check a player's match, and it's not going to check any harder for having more reports.
Leave it up to the other players to decide if they think something should be reported or not.
Did you know that one report in one game weighs the same as nine reports in one game?
It's not the number of reports in one game that matters, it's how many games overall you get reported in.
There's no point whatsoever in asking people to report someone. No point. At all. Period. Riot confirmed. Discussion over.
But is it toxic? No idea, but it's absolutely pointless and probably safer if you just don't do it.
What does it accomplish?
Perhaps it wouldn't be if there were any benefit to asking for reports. As of right now, however, asking that can only make things worse; you're going to report the person yourself, and that is already enough to flag the game against that player (provided of course that the report turns out to be valid).
Toxicity is much less how you intend something and much more how it's interpreted. This being text chat (and the Internet), it is going to be seen and interpreted in the worst possible light. It's quite easy to interpret a request for reports as harassment against the player in question.
At the very least, asking someone else to report someone is not going to improve the game, nor increase the severity of any punishment that may be meted out. Simply report the person yourself and move on.
Yes it is, since report should be personal decision and not influenced by others.
100% toxic. you are attacking your teammates and forcing them to defend themselves if they dont want more reports.
True. I asked my team and enemy team to report a lvl 3 yasuo for feeding and leaving lane to jg when he didnt get top and autolocked, thus taking his anger out on the garen top and me, his support. He said he wanted a solo lane, but all other options were taken and I own no top lane champions. I promised not to ks, and as he constantly dived with half health and my shields were on cooldown, he called me a scripted braindead 7 year old guy. I retorted with the fact I am in all ap courses, I'm 16, and I'ma girl, and he said it was no wonder why i was so braindead and called me a "feminist sht". I asked enemy and ally to report him for such toxicity, feeding, sexism and slander and thereby called me toxic for asking for others to report. Not the best game, honestly..[zombie-brand-facepalm]*
Here's the issue with asking people to report others. Unless you have personally witnessed an infraction, you should never report someone. The person asking for the report could easily be lying. You don't know if you didn't witness the incident. By the same logic, other people can never know whether you are telling the truth if it's just your word.
Is it toxic? It certainly can be. You claim it's not, but the term toxicity is applied to things that create, maintain, or exacerbate an unpleasant environment. Publicly asking for someone to be reported does exactly that, as it instigates the target into retaliating. If they were already guilty, then they could make things worse for you. If the other players didn't notice any misbehavior and the target acts innocent, you could look like the bully. Or he could just ramp up the hostility, which could end in a thrown game if you're not in post-game chat. If the person is innocent, you immediately drag other people into it who weren't involved. People believing the accuser could end up reporting someone falsely, lowering their own report weights so that future attempts to report someone are less likely to trigger a response.
Riot has said time and again never to report unless you personally have witnessed wrongdoing, and never to request others to report people. It's hostile. It's unnecessary due to the way the report system works. It results in weakening the voice of those reporting falsely. It's reportable in itself. Riot has posted logs of banned players, and pointed out that they were threatening others with reports. Those report threats were part of the punishment justification.