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Seriously this is getting a little ridiculous with the reporting people for talking trash

SourDeezNutts·1/10/2017, 8:31:11 PM·4 votes·3,929 views

Online gaming wouldn't be what it is today without trash talking. I HAD a lvl 30 account i've had for 6 years and i've never had a problem with getting banned very often, id receive reports here and there for the occasional tilt. Then somehow in the last few months i get a 14 day ban 2 chat bans and a perma ban in 2 months..... like for real Riot? Cant even say someone sucks anymore without getting 5 reports. idk if its the Babyshit soft community or the overly strict rules of Riot but it really has taken the fun out of the game for me.... i cant even have a back and forth with other summoners while competing? Has anyone ever been on a team and competed for something before? there is trash talking. alot of it. most of the time not very nice. i don't get why people get banned for it when they can just be muted and have chat filters to block out all the cursing if it really offends someone that much. i get if you are being racist/sexist/homophobic or just being a strait dick for absolutely no reason. but just saying someone is shit playing like a shit feeder gets me permanently banned? Come on people. I just got another ban on this account for talking shit to someone who was intentionally feeding bc they didnt get the lane they wanted. but i said some "oh no bad words!" and i got a ban for it and that asshat got one too for feeding on purpose. obviously people want to say stuff to those people. why would you encourage us to not interact with the person ruining the game im playing and making it not fun. you guys really care that much about the intentional feeders feeling after wasting 9 other real peoples time bc they dont get the lane they want? I say you tell everyone to stop acting like a bunch of soft babies and quit crying when someone says they are playing like trash. ill take all the criticism given to me right on the chin but it seems as if no one else can.

69 Comments

AeroWaffle1/10/2017, 8:40:07 PM15 votes

To put it simply, the average player doesn't want to be forced to play with an asshole for 20-60min. Muting a player doesn't change the presence of the asshole, they're still there. So, for the sake of the enjoyment of a vast majority of players, Riot expects people to behave with civility.

If you want to consider it socially acceptable to be a jerk, you're free to think so. But regardless of your views of what is and isn't socially acceptable behavior, you're still expected to follow the rules if you want to play the game.

Jo0o1/10/2017, 11:00:23 PM12 votes

Hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet while spewing toxic bullshit is working less and less. Looks like your practices have finally caught up to you.

Disagree? Chat logs, please.

OnlyYouCanHearMe1/10/2017, 10:09:07 PM6 votes

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I just got another ban on this account for talking shit to someone who was intentionally feeding bc they didnt get the lane they wanted. but i said some "oh no bad words!" and i got a ban for it

Toxicity bans are not given out for a single match, unless it's a case of extremely offensive harassment or hate speech. It's more likely that this match was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. If you have received this many punishments recently, that is a sign from Riot that the behaviors you have been displaying are no longer acceptable. The problem is not that other people are too sensitive and cannot take your trash-talk. The problem is that you are not listening when Riot point blank tells you to stop treating the other players in your matches this way. And after Riot tells you to stop 3 times and you don't, they do not tell you again. They simply take the account away.

You ask if anyone has ever been on a team and competed for anything before. When I was in high school I competed in Track & Field, Cross Country, Cheerleading, and was part of a nationally ranked competition Choir. When I was in college I competed in national and international Judo tournaments and I've competed against two different Olympic athletes. Yes, I've competed.

Trash-talking is not necessary. It does not make you play better, it does not make your teammates play any better, and it's dishonorable to the spirit of sportsmanship. Many competitive sports not only discourage trash-talking and negative behavior, they actively punish players for it. Why do you think players can no longer spike footballs in the NFL or excessively dance in the endzone? They'd be fined thousands of dollars for it. If someone spouted off some of the things I've read in chat logs in this board at an Olympic Judo match, they would be disqualified and thrown out.

FurriesAreHot1/10/2017, 10:54:33 PM4 votes

"Wah-wah someone reported me for being an asshole, wtf why are people using the report functions properly?"

Magical Player1/10/2017, 8:34:14 PM2 votes

they can pull reports from any day, so over 6 years you may of just been a "toxic" element, that never improved

Interacting and flaming someone are not the same thing. You can interact with flaming but you can't flame to interact....

Regardless of what happened an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind Submit chat logs

Lexyy1/11/2017, 2:41:39 PM2 votes

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Online gaming wouldn't be what it is today without trash talking.

Yes and it sucks. So we both agree trash talking made this community shitty like it is today. :)

swordofsun1/11/2017, 7:06:04 PM1 votes

You keep talking about trash talk, but I don't think you actually know what that is. Trash talk is never to your own team (except in those cases where the other person is a friend and takes it in the friendly spirit intended).

When directed at your own team it is harassment.

When directed at the enemy team it is the verbal equivalent of the jungler ganking top lane, then sitting in the bushes for the player to walk back and ganking them again. Tilt, but not cause harm (and anyone who thinks words can't hurt was never bullied as a child).

You can trash talk and still be a good sportsman. This is a very fine line to walk though and the LOL community is for the most part incapable, so best to just not do it.

Competition creds: Speech and Competitive One-Act in high school (and if you don't think it was competitive you don't know actors) as well as a long list of friends who were more athletic than me.

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