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Chat Restrictions and Other Punishments for Toxicity in the New Ranking System

rito no ban plox·2/21/2019, 6:39:16 AM·1 votes·2,069 views

You want to beta test this positional matchmaking and that is totally fine. But when you start punishing players for being toxic towards their teammates that just run it down because they are nowhere near the elo they should be that's where there are problems. How are you going to punish players for tilting in a ranked queue when your ranked queue is so messed up that I get people 0-7 (whether on my team or the enemy) before ten minutes of the game? Makes absolutely 0 sense to me. Best part is I personally have refrained from completely outright raging out these players, instead maybe just telling them to stop inting (soft toxicity) and I still reopen my client to see that I have chat restrictions. Again, if you want to throw this underdeveloped queue onto live servers that's your choice, but don't be surprised when people flame their teammates for the shit game quality you've created in plat+.

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Umbral Regent2/21/2019, 7:10:15 AM10 votes

The behavior you're describing (toxic elitists flaming people for not playing to their standards) has been around well before Positional Rankings, and it has just the same been punishable. This isn't some newly apparent form of toxicity brought on specifically by Positional Ranking - it's been around for longer than that.

What you may define as "inting" may in fact just be someone playing poorly, getting squarely beaten, or an overall bad match. Flaming them will not magically flip their KDR around, and it only really worsens the situation and makes them more likely to die.

unbannedFoe2/21/2019, 11:06:02 AM2 votes

I don't think it's going to be easy to stop smurfing or having inferior teammates every once in awhile by 'fixing' the ranking system.. I think we should just drop /disable chat bans entirely. The chat filters and reporting systems are what's broken here. Especially when feeding teammates are the ones who report most often, or the ones that blame others for their loss, just instantly bans you because you likely badmouthed them for their trashy attitude/playstyle.. its all just too damn soft and fake for me, it makes me barely wanna play league anymore i be telling my friends to play other games now because of how shit and soft this community is. probably because they pandering to women and egirls more trying to keep chat clean when no one gives a fuck until you guys allowed players to ban other players by using robotic reporting systems..