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Suggestion : new mute feedback feature - helping people get a hint on what others don't want to read

Princesse Salama·8/15/2019, 9:18:17 AM·1 votes·1,800 views

Hey,

muting people is great for your peace of mind, everyone knows that.

But not knowing when you are being muted -because it is true, most of us sometimes blame or go passive-agressive from time to time- has some issues, which can actually prevent you from becoming a better teamplayer -one that doesn't get muted- :

1 - talking to deaf people : since you don't know you are being muted, you can think other players in your team can read your advice and suggestions ("drop a ward around the baron pit", "wait for me", "they are all ad get ninja tabi') and actually refuse to take those into consideration, which is certainly not going to make you any cooler or think better of your teammates, because it makes you feel like you are a negligible teamplayer and no one cares about you losing LP... and in the end triggers the tilting.

2 - hurting without knowing : you never get to know what the things that made people angry or felt bad in the first time are -some people are 'softer' than others, and "Did you.. just miss this point blank arrow?" may trigger a mute.. or not, I actually have no idea : sometimes people have been making jokes about it, and sometimes nothing. Also, with time, you can forget how some people get hurt by things that are most of the time ok.

So, it would be great to get feedback on the muting, as a way to improve the in-game team chat experience. Not in-game, of course, because that would be perceived as revenge or punishment.

Personally, I would like to know if there are some words I use that trigger the mute, and whether USING CAPS is really a no-no. There should be statistics about that, and feedback something like "After [some kind of sentence / word] you have been muted in 30% of your games".

Knowing how many people muted me (and only me, /mute all not included) only at the end of a game would also be a good hint of my "nice guy" level, and knowing how many games started with a teammate using /mute all would help me understand why no one FREAKING BUYS NINJA TABI AGAINST FULL AD TEAMS.

3 Comments

DerMangoJoghurt8/15/2019, 9:24:55 AM5 votes

I fear that it could cause more harm than good. I you hypothetically are extremely annoyed at a teammate and want to flame them, only to notice your text messages aren't getting through, you might resort to other means to display your frustration like stealing farm, feeding his lane opponents or other forms of sabotage. In addition those types of toxicity are significantly harder to detect than inflammatory language.