An anecdote.

DOUBLE TAPPED E·9/19/2019, 2:55:22 AM·6 votes·2,790 views

So there's this story about a thief who broke into someone's home, and cut himself on the broken glass from the window he entered in, so he decided to sue the homeowner and won a huge settlement.

This story is untrue.

There's also a story about how someone can "soft-int" which is using their experience and knowledge of how a game is won / lost, to intentionally put their team at a severe disadvantage without appearing to do so, and then gets called out on it, but the person who's calling them out is told that it's not OK to do so because the rules are there to protect that player from all the mean things people would say about them (which apparently they don't deserve).

This story is true.

64 Comments

Hotarµ9/19/2019, 3:09:50 AM13 votes

If you choose to view it as protection, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. However, the Name & Shame rule is in place for two reasons and neither of them are for the purposes of protecting someone.

The users on the Boards are just like you and I, regular people. No Rioters peruse the Boards looking for people to ban, nobody here has the ability to alter or administer punishments in any way, so posting here with the intent to report or call someone out is functionally useless. Many of us also consider it spam for that reason.

In addition to that, starting a witch hunt and labeling people as griefers or problematic users (accurate or not) is not helpful as other players will view that as a chance to enact revenge rather than turn the other cheek.

The best way to "call people out" and get them punished is through the in-client report option or by filing a support ticket where you can attach the evidence, **not by posting here. **

Tele II9/19/2019, 3:17:32 AM3 votes

So the rules are there to protect soft inters from mean words? Or are they there as a general rule to protect every player from having their experience ruined by others regardless of context by deterring them with the threat of punishment? If you report them, and Riot finds them to be inting, they will get punished. I dont think a system where once someone breaks the rules, everyone is allowed to break the rules, would be any better at all. It would be a mess.

TrulyBland9/19/2019, 3:56:00 AM3 votes

A) The first story has many similar real cases, which ultimately are built around the fact that you have certain duties regarding safety. If somebody gets hurt due to your negligence, whether they were trespassing or not may not be completely irrelevant, but it also doesn't immediately absolve you of all fault.

B) A burglar hurting themselves based on your negligence (which just to reiterate, can also get you in trouble) is far far away from intentionally hurting them. You are not a window. You are not an inanimate object. You make an active choice by harassing a soft inter, and that active choice can most definitely yield consequences.

C) It's not about whether that person deserves the harassment or not. It's about the simple fact that you don't get to decide whether somebody deserves something or not. If you do something illegal to a criminal, even if you 100% accurately inflict the punishment that they would have received in court, you are still going to be convicted of your own crime, for the simple reason that it was not your call to make.