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Removing the chat feature from my client. Please.

CaptainB00·3/10/2019, 2:04:53 AM·1 votes·2,250 views

The chat is worth absolutely nothing to me. I hate the chat feature. Nothing good comes out of it. I want to disable it when I play Ranked games. I would never get in trouble again. EVER.

I want it removed from my client.

I don't want to enter champ select and see my Jungler saying "oh no, i am autofilled, i dont know how to jungle" in a Ranked game. Then if I say, I have already dodged a few times today and my dodge timer is at 30+ mins..... if I beg anyone to dodge, and they refuse to dodge and wait 5 minutes.... now I am creating a negative environment according to Riot and I will be punished as soon as they report me.

I don't want to be in-game, and see a super toxic troll on my team, start badmouthing me for absolutely no reason. I load into the game, walk to my tower before minions spawn.... and I said that I liked our team comp, and then the troll tells me "shut up dweeb" and then calls me a fool and keeps being mean to me for no reason. If I type back to him, I get in trouble by Riot, because context never matters to Riot.

I don't want to be playing Top lane, and I go B to fountain, and then I see my enemy top is MIA... so I ping MIA. I notice our Mid has no wards up, so I ping MIA and warning pings to Mid. He ignores the pings, dies to a Top-Mid duo gank, feeding my enemy laner that I've been beating up to now.. and then my Mid blames me anyway and says why didn't I follow enemy top to Mid.

I hate the chat feature. Nothing good comes out of it. I want to disable it when I play Ranked games. I would never get in trouble again. EVER.

Do you think Riot can disable the feature for my account? Or give me a 1,000 game chat restriction with 0/0 messages?

I just want to play the game and not know a damn thing about autofilled Junglers, or clueless teammates blaming the wrong people, or even being tempted at typing "negative"things in chat.

To me, the chat feature is simply a breeding ground for abuse in the report system. I feel like the people being punished the most, are competitive people who use the Chat feature. They say something considered toxic or negative, and now that's it. If they only NEVER used chat, they could literally troll games and nothing would happen to them.

I hate the chat feature so much. I want to remove it from my client.

8 Comments

rujitra3/10/2019, 2:29:27 AM5 votes

It is not Riot's job to ensure you have self control, and Riot is not going to inconvenience or handicap other players because you can't control yourself. Riot provides you with the mute and report features to remove the chat of any player you are not happy with how they are using it.

Umbral Regent3/10/2019, 2:36:05 AM5 votes

Being frank, chat (communication in general) is a pretty huge necessity to League, so no, there's not going to be an option of removing the chat or having your account effectively muted for 1,000 games.

In each of these cases, you're blaming Riot for how the system works rather than understanding why it works that way and seeing that the problem is in your behavior, and not the system.

I don't want to enter champ select and see my Jungler saying "oh no, i am autofilled, i dont know how to jungle" in a Ranked game. Then if I say, I have already dodged a few times today and my dodge timer is at 30+ mins..... if I beg anyone to dodge, and they refuse to dodge and wait 5 minutes.... now I am creating a negative environment according to Riot and I will be punished as soon as they report me.

Nobody is obligated to dodge just because you don't like the situation in the pre-game lobby. If you really think that the match should be dodged, you dodge it. Asking other people to dodge for you is lazy, and, yes, negative behavior. There are other ways to approach the situation than calling for people to dodge for you.

Have you considered trying to coordinate with the team to see where the autofilled player normally plays, and seeing which other player in the team could switch roles with them? Have you considered biting the bullet and offering to switch roles yourself? Have you considered encouraging the autofilled player to play a noob-friendly/easy/low-skill-intensive Champion to counterbalance their lack of knowledge of the role?

If all you do is either dodge or ask others to dodge for you, you're not really going to get anywhere. You need to learn how to better approach those such situations, because, yes, asking other people to dodge for you is not good behavior.

I don't want to be in-game, and see a super toxic troll on my team, start badmouthing me for absolutely no reason. I load into the game, walk to my tower before minions spawn.... and I said that I liked our team comp, and then the troll tells me "shut up dweeb" and then calls me a fool and keeps being mean to me for no reason. If I type back to him, I get in trouble by Riot, because context never matters to Riot.

If you're simply positing that you like your composition/setup whatever, and someone starts harassing you and being toxic, mute them. As soon as you see them say "shut up dweeb" or anything similar, mute them. And I would encourage to go the whole nine yards and fullmute them, because odds are high that they'd just as quickly abuse the ping system as they would the chat.

If you type back to them and get yourself into a flame war, yes, of course context isn't going to matter. It doesn't matter if they started it, you participated, and you made the rest of your team deal with two flamers instead of just the one. Don't engage flamers, it's never worth it.

And remember; Mute, report, move on.

I don't want to be playing Top lane, and I go B to fountain, and then I see my enemy top is MIA... so I ping MIA. I notice our Mid has no wards up, so I ping MIA and warning pings to Mid. He ignores the pings, dies to a Top-Mid duo gank, feeding my enemy laner that I've been beating up to now.. and then my Mid blames me anyway and says why didn't I follow enemy top to Mid.

Much the same. If they start flaming you, chewing you out, etc. for not being right there, a pixel beside your lane opponent, mute them. Don't respond to them, don't give them the time of day, just mute them, report them post-game, and play to your best ability.

I feel like the people being punished the most, are competitive people who use the Chat feature.

If they were truly competitive, they wouldn't be using the chat to fight their teammates. The argument of "people get punished for being competitive" is such a tired one that makes no sense whatsoever. If they're so competitive, so determined to win, why would they take actions that directly decrease their chances of winning?

If they only NEVER used chat, they could literally troll games and nothing would happen to them.

Trolls do get punished, with or without the use of chat. The issue is that detecting trolls is difficult, since one would have to determine intent; and, yes, that means that it takes much longer to detect a troll who doesn't speak compared to one who does. It's a known flaw, but that doesn't mean that nothing happens to trolls who don't use the chat.

PavLoo3/10/2019, 11:08:21 AM1 votes

Hey, why won't you use AutoHotkey to disable your chat button?