Survey: Should Verbal Toxicity be Punishable

Imperial Pandaa·3/22/2019, 10:54:56 PM·1 votes·2,440 views

Yes, we know verbal toxicity is punishable; but the question is should it be? We have people claim that majority of players seem to think that majority of players think it ahould be allowed. We also have people who agree with Riot that it should be.

So, I know the data I get will be meager in comparison to the actuall number of players. I have posted the survery link to Reddit as well to hopefully reach more people. Try to keep the survey honest and only participate once please. ^-^

17 Comments

ModThe Djinn3/22/2019, 10:57:30 PM6 votes

It's worth noting that Riot does do surveys like this, and has a reach that is far more encompassing than the ecosystem of the boards and Reddit. It'll be interesting to see the results, but I would not necessarily consider them indicative of the overall playerbase view, given the self-selective bias of the Board and Reddit communities and the regional bias than English-language communities will also have.

R107 Games3/23/2019, 12:42:34 AM2 votes

If you're trying to see the overall opinion of the playerbase, a survey that's placed on the boards or Reddit will inherently be inaccurate. As both the boards and Reddit only contain an extremely small fraction of the playerbase. In addition to the fact that the thread in question might not get as much views, thus leading to not as many people participating in the survey, and will be obscured to people sorting by "hot".

The survey will also be skewed based on the type of people clicking on the survey at that time. Hell, just posting this on the Player Behavior boards is bad enough because of the type of people this sub board attracts

Imperial Pandaa3/23/2019, 11:35:48 AM1 votes

Yeah, any results from this should be taken with a grain of salt. So far, I have gotten 67 responses. Obviously this is completely representative of the millions of players.

[sg-lulu]

Project Xayah3/23/2019, 1:29:01 PM1 votes

One thing you definitely have to consider is that the game is rated PG13, and is actively targeted at young audiences, so even if the majority of the community thought that "verbal toxicity shouldn't be punishable (or that only extreme behaviours should be punishable) that's not necessarily going to be enough to change the situation, as it will still be in the best interest of Riot, LoL and the community for that behaviour to be actively targeted.

OneAlmond3/23/2019, 5:04:41 PM1 votes

I think there'd be less verbal toxicity, especially in lower ranked games, if losses were prevented for obvious griefers/trolls, or there was some sort of system in place where individual skill was ranked in addition to functioning on random teams. (sorta like a ranked mastery system.)

The perceived lack of player agency on their own rank usually results in flaming/toxicity (atleast empirically.)

Sirsir3/24/2019, 12:20:37 AM1 votes

Verbal as in IRL or verbal as in typing in game?

Ambient Snow3/24/2019, 12:23:49 AM1 votes

Yes and no.

do i think there are some thing that shouldn't be toxic yes.. telling some one they suck or getting upset or frustrated is natural cause it is a competitive game and you need to rely on others and if you get upset its good to let it out..

No if you cross that line and become horribly hostile and racist and making death threats then yea it should be punishable.

but its hard to regulate when riot relies on bots that flag and ban.

Pandemic Punch3/24/2019, 2:13:40 AM1 votes

No. Not as long as the mute button exists. And if riot doesn't want words to be typed at all, then they need to make trigger words bypass the chat filter being switched off.

Then they can ignore the thousands of support tickets per day with subjective chat logs, and focus on the people who afk or intentionally lose games when they get reported.

Jo0o3/22/2019, 11:16:22 PM1 votes

MUH FREEDOM OF SPORCH.