Rito's punishment is intolerant and ignorant of those with severe mental disorders/sick ppl

Mansouri FataI·Jun 21, 2016·4 votes·786 views

Since last year, I have been prescribed the steroid of Dianabol to combat my HIV from turning into AIDS. As an anabolic steroid, it naturally increases testosterone, making me prone to anger, and aggravating my bipolar symptoms. I literally cannot help it due to biology and medication that is prolonging my life.

To the PRIVILEGED decision makers at Riot, there is no leniency however, and rather than have people just use an easy to make mute restriction, prefer to treat it's player base like tattle tale second graders, FURTHERING the internal view of toxicity and enhancing it's effects. I don't expect any change, Riot clearly values the added income of people buying XP boosts when making new accounts, but for the love of god acknowledge your ignorance and check your privilege

17 Comments

OleandervineJun 21, 20166 votes

A couple of things:

Riot doesn't have any proof or in fact any knowledge of you illnesses. There is no way that you can prove this short of physically showing up at their office with paperwork. If Riot started making accommodations based on mental illness, they'd go bankrupt because of the sheer amount of manpower required to classify and find solutions for all of the potential mental disorders that they don't accommodate. It is a virtual impossibility to baby proof the Internet for people, so you either learn to better control your mental state or you remove yourself from the situation entirely. This is all on you, and heaping it onto a company (of which playing their game is a 100% first world privilege) is irrational.
You don't have any rights to request this. You signed a Terms of Service by hitting the "I accept" button, a ToS which included a clause that requires players to behave with civil written language in the public chat spaces provided by Riot games. If you read that knowing you had difficulty controlling your civility in public chat spaces, then this is again, all on you. You can't violate a very plainly and clearly spelled out rule and then play the victim card when you get punished. The world doesn't work like that. It would be privileged if it did.
In your circumstances, rather than play the victim and claiming oppression, why don't you take better efforts to take control of youself instead of trying to divert the responsibility for your problems on others? You can take counseling, you can go on specific diets, you can take any amount of supplements that can assist you in levelling your behavior. If you do not take efforts to help yourself, you are very out of line in expecting the "privileged" to extend special privileges to you on account of you being incapable of moderating yourself. Even if you cannot moderate your anger, there are viable solutions to expressing it that don't get you banned. Scream in a pillow, beat the stuffing out of a bear, even write down your angry remarks on a sheet of paper; regardless of what you can do, there are ways to express anger without bringing it into the game. You have safe options available, and yet if you still opt to bring this negative behavior into the game, then as I've said, it's all on you.

Mansouri FataIJun 22, 20161 votes

DID NOT READ

ModPrandineJun 22, 20161 votes

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DID NOT READ

While they could have done a better job at spacing out their points, at least they took the liberty of numbering their points so you can tell which one is which. No excuses. Also, judging from your posts in this thread alone you sound like another one of those people who would rather shift the blame onto someone else rather than take responsibility for their actions. Sorry but disability or not you choose to type stuff in the chat and you also choose to press enter as well also. If you're unwilling to own up to your own behavior then multiplayer online games are not for you.

JamareeJun 21, 20164 votes

So because you can't control yourself, Riot is the one at fault?

Mansouri FataIJun 21, 20162 votes

ARE YOU AWARE OF SEVERE MEDICAL PROBLEMS THAT CAUSE PEOPLE TO BEHAVE A CERTAIN WAY. CHECK YOUR PRIV

JamareeJun 21, 20161 votes

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ARE YOU AWARE OF SEVERE MEDICAL PROBLEMS THAT CAUSE PEOPLE TO BEHAVE A CERTAIN WAY. CHECK YOUR PRIV

Check your stupidity.

Ellis McPickleJun 21, 20163 votes

Every part of your post feels like it came from tumblr. Also wtf is check your privilege? Also if your rage is so bad that you can't just not type, you should probably get other meds to even it out.

A little PeepoJun 21, 20161 votes

I am terribly sorry to hear what you are going through and hope you get better! But tbh for people who have anger issues or any other mental issues then those people should probably not be playing league because league will only worsen that. I know you feel that it's not fair for riot to treat everybody the same but do you think it's fair for others to go through constant harassment from players with mental issues? Overall if you have severe anger issues and you can't stop yourself from tearing a new Anus on your keyboard from all the toxicity then you probably need to quit league or just stick to ai bots.

TheEvilQueen135Jun 21, 20161 votes

just don't use chat. tell your team early on that you will not be using it(better yet mute them and tell them) be responsible for your own temperament (biology based or not). it is not riot's fault, it is not the community's fault if they don't like anger in their games. you are aware of this and aware of how your treatment affects you. just mute them all, it's not their responsibility to mute you.

also what i'm describing is not privilege as much as it is a right/following riot's code of conduct.

Demon King MaouJun 21, 20161 votes

Riot should just separate the two communities The Kiddos and Friendlies and The adults and Cursers

Would fix so many problems

Mansouri FataIJun 22, 20161 votes

As usual, Beta Riot employees too afraid to defend themselves. Expect a lawsuit soon

kaleb bartlettJun 22, 20163 votes

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As usual, Beta Riot employees too afraid to defend themselves. Expect a lawsuit soon

yeah, good luck with that, let us know when that fails.

Don't blame your inability to control yourself on anything or anyone but you.

ModAttysu The PoroJun 22, 20162 votes

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As usual, Beta Riot employees too afraid to defend themselves. Expect a lawsuit soon

You can't sue Riot, once you accept their ToS like someone said above; you abide by their rules. They also have the literal right to ban your account for any and all reasons, and even if they don't, they still can.

Also, as a person with depression and high anxiety, who physically has a hard time playing Ranked due to the inherent stress of being perfect for your teammates and being flamed for not; I feel kind of insulted you're asking for special privileges just because of a problem YOU are having. I have anxiety when playing ranked as I explained; I play ranked only sometimes, mostly for fun but I do try to win, and I tend to only play a few games a week of ranked to keep my anxiety levels low.

With my depression, here's an example of a time previously;

I had a really low spike in my depression, honestly it was really bad. The only thing I loved to do was play LoL and have fun with my favorite champions and forget about my real life (aka escapism, a heavily suggested solution to mental issues that causes distress,) when I was told 20 minutes after I attempted to cut myself, and I quote, "Go fucking kill yourself, gay slur here ._." Mind you I'm ALSO LGBT. Did I cry to Riot and ask them to let me curse them out as a special right for being offended?

Nope. I ignored them, cried a little, but I kept playing and ended up winning that game and having fun after I got over the hurtful words.

Don't mean to be blunt or rude, but as the people above say; check your privilege. You really can offend people you're attempting to speak for.

Mansouri FataIJun 22, 20161 votes

Nice try Lyte, nice sock puppet account

ModAttysu The PoroJun 22, 20161 votes

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Nice try Lyte, nice sock puppet account

... looks in pants Nope I still got a vagina, still not Lyte. I love how you're so blind to anyone's opinions you have to resort to calling everyone Lyte. xD

Mansouri FataIJun 22, 20161 votes

I love how you're socially unaware you take threads like these seriously.

ModAttysu The PoroJun 22, 20163 votes