Criticism and Flaming are NOT the same. Rule applies Ingame aswell!
It has come to me that people seem to increasingly misconfuse those Things. Needless to say i have seen people both suffer from that and execute said misconfusion within my League of Legends games.
And i feel like this Needs to be set straight. Flaming is not criticising someone. Criticism involves suggesting ways to improve. it involves constructive, civilized expressions with Facts-only content. Flaming is just indirectly shaming anyone you think is lesser than yourself. It does not Need to be vulgar, it does not even Need to include any form of Insults. But if you tell someone "you are so bad" "you're pathetic" "you make me laugh" you qualify yourself as a flamer and can be punished accordingly if a report goes through.
If you tell someone, however. "you seem inexperienced, do X and maybe try Y for your champ, it should work" THEN you are being constructive and helpful. THEN you are helping someone, be it ally or enemy ingame.
AND such rule applies to EVERYONE! Yes, even to yasuo Players. They just like everyone else have the same kinda issues and struggles ingame. Just because yasuo Players are more known to be not-so-friendly does not mean they are the only not-so-friendly, it does not mean that all Yas Players are not-so-friendly and it MOST DEFINETLY does not mean you are justified flaming them. By flaming someone you assume is on a low Level you just put yourself beneath even them. So chew on that one all of you bronze-haters.
And just like in my previous Posts regarding behaviour in this game, the proof is the entire section of the board. 1 in 3 Posts is someone being "unjustly" banned, unjustly referring to their sheer biast personal point of view because they thought they were in the right with saying what they did. so what if the enemy sucks? he most likely is Aware of it himself, you don't Need to rub it in his face or shame him with it. If you cannot determine why someone was banned purely because they were not vulgar then oh boy do i have bad news for you. Vulgar speech only goes reported under "verbal abuse" there is still the unsportsmanlike behaviour one to cover, which involves the non-vulgar flamings, examples named above.
If someone lags, if a bug happens, or if it gets very lucky, per say the enemy not backing and surviving 3 ignites all on less than 10 hp, then that does not mean the enemy is crying, even if they point it out, and if that happens, you are up to critizise that on a civilized Level, not just go to all chat and write "hahaha youre pathetic, typical whiny Little bronze not stfu and stop crying" or whatever else the norm is for the part of the community that consists of rude assholes and arrogant know-it-alls.
last but not least, just because someone gets tilted and starts being harsh in chat does not mean you can do the same. the "but he did it too" excuse only works until you are 5 years of age. which if you can read this is way way in the past. EVERY form of negativity is restricted, and if you did not happen to know, riot has a no-tolerance policy for their punishments. meaning that there is no exception and no reason that can save you.
So next time if you want an individual to go away, consider saying "kindly urinate yourself away" instead of yelling at him to piss off.
