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"KYS" And Similar Remarks NEED To Be Picked Up By The System Better.

Best Ekko NA·8/8/2016, 12:11:18 PM·101 votes·8,228 views

I think the system really needs to crack down harder on this, surprisingly I am getting these comments consistently every few games. Players try to hide what they are saying and apparently whatever is being used must not pick up on it. Things like "kys", "go commit", "drink bleach", these are things that people are telling me pretty much every other game on my Silver account. I report them however I feel like more than likely the scanner isn't catching these things that people are saying.

I understand some people "reform" but I'm a firm believer that there should be absolutely NO chat restriction for players who tell someone to kill themselves, or even abbreviate, or reference it. The instant the system sees it, these players should get hit with their two week ban because it's not something that myself, or probably anyone likes seeing and I am seeing it so often that it's making me cringe. My very last two games I've had a player make a remark telling me that I should kill myself. The remark wasn't outright but the meaning is still there. I can handle some negativity every so often but seriously, I am seeing these abbreviated remarks / comments way too regularly. It means the same thing, and it should merit the same exact weight and punishment.

148 Comments

DunkinNoobs8/8/2016, 5:23:40 PM35 votes

"You just ran in 1v5 and killed yourself."

INSTANT BAN.

PayaThePapaya8/8/2016, 4:23:52 PM31 votes

The year is 2017. The system now automatically punishes anyone who says kys. Some poor sap tries to type keys and forgets the e and is suspended on the spot D:

dominusx8/8/2016, 12:21:27 PM17 votes

How do you drink an anime kappa

Netherlife8/8/2016, 2:22:28 PM16 votes

Words like commit and suicide shouldn't be picked up. If you think about it can you picture someone saying this, "If we go in we need to commit, if not it's just suicide."? I can because I've said that before. I use the word commit frequently, as well as suicide. I'd hate to be chat restricted by communicating with my team.

Jeanne fan club8/8/2016, 9:24:18 PM10 votes

The year is 2016 Taric "think you can help me ward? I'm the only one who is warding" Yasuo triggered Taric was permabanned for saying something that someone else didn't like

extreme example I know, but I think that it illustrates the point that I'm trying to make. restricting any speech is bad. Free speech allows people to filter out ideas that they do not want to hear, that's why a majority of the population has a negative view towards racists.

It obviously isn't polite to take anger and frustration out on other people through a chat window. What people need to realize is that there is a MUTE BUTTON THERE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. I understand that you may feel bad about being told to kys, but you need to understand that they are just words. If you can't handle being told to kys over the internet, then I truly fear for you in the real world.

Just remember, words can't hurt you unless you let them, and in a game with a mute button it is all too easy to not let them hurt you. The internet is turning into a hugbox because overly sensitive people cant handle what is being said in the real world. Attributing your insecurity to a societal problem only shows that you are the one who has a problem. Offense is subjective, and there is always someone who will be offended by one word or another, regardless of context.

The solution to the problem is to mute, or just stop taking people seriously when they say that kind of stuff. The solution is defiantly not to ban people for what they type in chat. A system like that is totalitarian, and a totalitarian chat system will prevent people with different opinions from being able to play the game.

Netherlife8/8/2016, 2:26:33 PM10 votes

Also you have to take into account, that kys isn't always meant to be serious. Sure it's a joke in poor taste, but that's the internet. We can't really ban people for making stupid jokes like, "You know what's so great about twenty two year olds? There's twenty of them." Which I have heard at least twice in game. Sure it cringey and horrible, but at the end of the day it IS just a joke. Even if it's, again, a stupid and/or horrible one.

Zuil8/9/2016, 7:11:15 AM8 votes

How about we get a tribunal and we don't need to rely on an automated system.

SiNful Jungler8/8/2016, 10:15:49 PM7 votes

goona love this new generation, here we have a serious world problem, while other countries suffer from minor probelms like hunger and terror ( alot of examples like 300 000 death in a civil war in 5 years, and nasty terrrorest attacks) here we have someone with a greater and more horrific problem that all the other problems pales infront of it, some one told him to kys, how can he live any more , what humanity had come to, what a new low , some one told another to kys in video game on the internet, the pain, suffering, agony, misery and tormet thats he brought to you, what a wretched world, hope that some day you get over this traumatic experience, and know you are not alone all the kids that are dying from hunger and bombs, the people how lost their future and loved ones share ur exact suffering.

DEKInw8/9/2016, 12:53:02 AM6 votes

i want a gameshow where this guy gets put on cs:go at 3 am and see how long he can last the russians

Jimmyyy8/8/2016, 7:45:12 PM4 votes

So... I get how it's really vulgar and everything, and I don't know how old you guys are, but I think it's a difference in generations. The younger generation (teenagers now) have really tough skin when taking insults, because bullying was a thing that literally everybody experienced, and they are used to it, so they are used to saying the same things. It's normal in our conversations to joke about that, because we're really insensitive to it. Like... The older generations will make occasional jokes about like the holocaust or 9/11 or something and the person who makes the joke will be frowned upon, but the younger generation makes these jokes all the time, and it's really the norm to be extremely vulgar. I don't know why.

Dububby8/9/2016, 4:42:13 AM1 votes

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I understand some people "reform" but I'm a firm believer that there should be absolutely NO chat restriction for players who tell someone to kill themselves

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MonkeyMadness8/9/2016, 5:59:46 AM1 votes

Ya as pissed off as I get when people spew shit like this, you cant instaban people for single toxic incidents. Maybe they are a really nice player and just have one moment where they slip up. They don't deserve a 14 day ban for a single slip up. Honestly, they don't even deserve a chat ban for this. Bans are reserved for consistent abuse, not the occasional bad day.

Having said this, intentional feeding and other forms of trolling in ranked games should be met with immediate and SEVERE punishment at the first provable incident, as these are a direct attempt to actually ruin the game, whereas verbal abuse is more or less just lashing out, and is not necessarily indicative of a player that is deliberately trying to lose the game.