I'm happy they removed "refusing to communicate" from the report list

Hexs Fortune·Aug 22, 2017·1 votes·396 views

People would flame you, then threaten to report "refusing to communicate" when you didn't want to engage in toxicity

4 Comments

ChermorgAug 22, 20171 votes

They removed it not because it’s not punishable, but because people were abusing it like you said.

Someone who never uses a ping/chat, and never types/reads chat can still be punished for refusing to participate in the team aspect of the game.

RashlasherAug 22, 20171 votes

How can the latter be punished? I almost was going to comment how I wished it were still a thing in that case because not having team communication really sucks. You're already matched with 4 strangers.

I recently just came out of a game that was pure shit in communication, and I know they hadn't muted because near the end when I was getting low-key tilted by it the Vi comes in and tells me to shut up bc I'm garbage.

'Well, you know, maybe I wouldn't have died 4 times if you guys communicated!' I can't tell you how many times I pinged, asked for a gank or lane switch, tried to get us to focus a lane instead of them selfishly sticking to themselves and focusing on racking kills or farming.

GOD the lane switch thing was the worst. For some reason, at the very beginning of the game, they all went off in the dumbest lane distrib: Vi and Yas top with Morg mid and Zilean and Syndra (me) bot. Morg can go anywhere. Why am I, Syndra, forced into bot against Tristana and Varus?! But no response. Nothing. Not even silent acknowledgement.

Sorry for the rant; I'm just so annoyed that a potentially fun-and-won game turned into shit because of the refusal to even try to play as a group and not an individual.

Mizuki ZahraAug 22, 20171 votes

i had a really toxic mid go ape shit in all chat because i didnt respond to a question they asked about non game related stuff literary mid asked "what kind of lacy undies do you wear" and i just ignore them, near the end they are spamming 'report ...... no communication troll int feeder j;ah;phgg;h;g" etc type stuff and i just say "/all i didnt mute i just found no game related chat therefore no need to respond"

zPOOPzAug 22, 20171 votes

As I understand it, that option was just a placebo report option anyway. I don't think it was a real review-triggering report option to begin with and I definitely have never heard or seen anyone getting any kind of punishment for it.