everyone seems to complain about "toxic" players but no one seems to want to do this

scazzman·4/2/2017, 11:58:44 PM·2 votes·1,155 views

Don't give them a reason to be toxic.

9/10 times i see "toxic chat" being the result of one of the following behaviors

Banning someone's champion, either accidentally or on purpose
A player trying to give instructions, and being flat out ignored, either through chat or through pings
Refusing to help a lane that's asking for help.
Trying to pull the "you're bad" card, or making passive aggressively tilting comments in chat. in order to deflect blame
getting defensive when asked to play safe
screwing around/not playing seriously "this is especially true for ranked"

25 Comments

TrulyBland4/3/2017, 1:23:41 AM3 votes

People have the right to make their own strategic calls regardless of other peoples' wishes. That alone disqualifies the first three of the points you made...

Considering passive aggressive comments are toxic chat, the fourth point works pretty effectively against your "9/10" claim, given that even if the entire rest of the team reacts to it, that still means that one out of those five people was being toxic without provocation.

Depending on how exactly you define "getting defensive", that also applies to this point. If "getting defensive" however literally just means defending themselves: If all it takes for somebody to be toxic are people defending themselves, then that really legitimizes the defensiveness, doesn't it?

The only legitimate point you have is the last one... but that doesn't happen even remotely enough to explain nine out of fucking ten cases of toxic chat. In fact one of the biggest problems with toxic chat is how often people directly jump to the conclusion that somebody is a troll or intentional feeder.

Follow your own advice and stop deflecting blame.

Natake4/3/2017, 12:00:23 AM3 votes

This is just enabling toxic people.

Whether you give them a reason or not, we shouldn't excuse toxic behavior.

If it's something that like banning someone's champ intentionally, that's also toxic, you feel?

Chønklord4/3/2017, 1:55:25 AM2 votes

There is never a valid reason to 'be toxic'; you choose your own words and actions, not someone else.

ƒrenet ƒrame4/3/2017, 12:25:25 AM2 votes

There is a large difference between provoking someone and not bending to their every will. Ban the champ they want to play because it's a common ban, not an excuse to be toxic. Not helping a losing lane because they would rather snowball their own lane to be able to carry, not an excuse to be toxic. Telling someone to build tanky please, not an excuse. Telling someone to kill themselves because they are shit, alright, I'll have a bit of sympathy here. The fact of the matter is though, things are going to happen that you dislike. Grow up and shut up.

hater free zone4/3/2017, 9:16:19 AM1 votes

So what you're basically telling us is to not trigger people prone to toxic behaviour. They are delicate snowflakes who don't like being talked back to, but we should just allow them to speak their vitriol.

alaskaneagle4/3/2017, 9:42:11 AM1 votes

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I have gone 26/6/22 before and been harassed all game by toxic trolls. I have been harassed Many times for picking a champ they didn't want me to pick. Toxic people are toxic, and riot has ignored the problem while encouraging toxicity so long that it's pretty much to late. The game is doing Exactly what I said it would.

Trippadelic4/3/2017, 12:56:03 PM1 votes

Toxic to me is like the last game i had with a Master Yi main. Here's the rundown: Level 2 vs a Riven as Swain, she's over extended and he comes to gank; we die as a double kill. The rest of the game was just him telling me im awful, to kill myself, blaming me for "inting" as i was 0/4 and he was 3/14, and that he was going to do awful things to my mother. The rest of that game was just spam question marks. Shit like that honestly makes me just want to quit playing.