A Different Mindset on Dealing with Toxic/Troll Players

xPlainDollx·5/23/2016, 1:36:50 AM·3 votes·726 views

Most of my posts in the forums have been about player behavior and the community. To be honest, the reason why is because there are so many people that will genuinely try to ruin your week and people that get so tilted that they will yell at everyone on their team for playing poorly, even if they are the problem. In the time that I've played League, I've seen little, if any, improvement in this behavior despite Riot saying that they are working to weed these people out. Thus, I propose this to the players that are sick of these toxic people: Report everyone that is being toxic, raging at teammates, being a troll etc. and if you don't feel that anything is changing, then stop playing. I'm starting to believe that Riot doesn't care as much about toxic players as they say they do because they haven't lost any money over it. If people get sick of these toxic players and start leaving in droves, maybe it will wake them up and they'll actually do something legitimate about the problem.

Side note the inevitable Riot employee reading this: I hope with the fullest of my being that you really do care about your community and that they really do want these toxic players gone. I have hope in humanity still but think about this from my perspective: I've been playing league for a little under a year and have seen no improvement in the community and very few of my reports actually do anything. There are a lot of other players that have been playing for a lot longer than I have that also feel that reporting players really doesn't do anything either. Something needs to change, as I said before, if you really do care about us. If not, and you have some half-hearted, stock response you're going to give me, then save your time. I'm smart enough to be able to tell if you're actually being sincere or not.

10 Comments

scazzman5/23/2016, 1:45:37 AM1 votes

the reality. riot doesnt care about toxic players. 12 year old kiddos have taken over. and thier mommies wont spend money on RP if league has a bad reputation of people swearing at each other. so riot throws more and more carrot/stick at the problem when it's not something carrot and stick will fix. to make it look like they're actually doing something. and because flamers and people who "type too much" are more noticable than passive aggressive trolls or feeders. theyre the ones getting targeted. not the people who are actually the problem

disregardable5/23/2016, 1:46:14 AM1 votes

You could just mute them as soon as they say anything negative. That generally makes games a lot less shitty.

Linthe5/23/2016, 5:26:16 PM1 votes

So yes.. report toxicity.. Why would you ever NOT report it???

It's very unlikely to get fixed if it's not reported..