Any steps onto how to not bring out the saltiness and toxicity in players? Should you mute people?

aidan bee·5/3/2016, 7:06:23 PM·1 votes·620 views

Reply if you have any steps to make players in your game not salty or toxic. There's another question to be asked thought and that's: Should you mute players? I'll be jumping around the boards looking for answers, but here's what I thought of myself: Muting toxic players could lead to bad communication in games, but not muting could lead to great games but terrible relationships. What if the player is good? Toxic but good (ehem tyler1), should you mute them? Shot calling is a great position in league, but when your shot caller is salty what do you do? So far I've found one solution which is wait the game out play and stuff, but just report them after the game. The thing is with that idea is it doesn't help at all during the game and only helps in future games.

Looking for replies, smittndew

4 Comments

2Pac Shaco5/3/2016, 8:18:00 PM1 votes

There is no solution... all options have pros and cons.

Generally, when you are winning.. people are much less toxic within the team. When you are losing, people are toxic as ever.

Ranked losing = super toxic as opposed to winning. Lower Level = super toxic as opposed to higher level although there are toxic people across the ranks.

That is about the only correlation I have found with no solid options.

I went through a period of time where I just muted everyone as soon as the game started, but you miss out on much needed teamwork and communication. At the same time, if I don't mute them, and they start trolling or getting toxic, I find it hard not to respond which usually results in the entire team going toxic.

Sometimes, I try to play peacemaker and get the team back in line after a toxic event, but that is rare.

It is hard because some players feeling are hurt before the game even starts (e.g. I got promoted, and then had 2 straight games where someone quit in the first 30 secs and we lost 4v5 twice). By the time I got into the 3rd game, realizing if I lost I would be demoted, I was boiling. And I don't play that often, so each game is important. I can't play 1,000 games and let the law of averages work.

I am not sure if there is an easy solution to your question.

JRobin315/3/2016, 8:48:02 PM1 votes

The decision to mute or not to mute comes down to what is actually being said in chat. It doesn't matter if they have the skills of Tyler1 if they are also talking like Tyler1. If unhelpful talk doesn't bother you, then you can leave unhelpful players unmuted. But I think that most players are going to be a bit bothered by unhelpful talk and find the mute option very useful.

Muting players is a great way to "not bring out the saltiness and toxicity" within yourself and that is always the first step in not bringing out the saltiness and toxicity in other players...

SmokedAlmonds5/3/2016, 9:14:19 PM1 votes

Whether or not you mute think you should mute people is dependent on how you can handle the situations. I for example, almost never mute people. I have muted maybe like 5 or so people ever. I can tolerate what they say and it is their presence that bothers me more than anything they actually could say so muting really don't solve much for me anyway. I want to win and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Unless someone is being so relentlessly toxic that they are distracting I would rather just deal with w/e he is saying in case he ever has something useful to say.

TLDR: If what someone is saying isn't going to negatively impact your play then from purely a winning standpoint it is better not to mute people.