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unhealthy community

Duehoelm··6 votes·585 views

Lately I've been experiencing a lot of ups and downs while playing League of Legends. First I achieve a lot of wins, play good and get good teamates, or even play bad and get good teamates. Then i enter some sort of deathrow... I lose several games and get these teamates with some seriously terrible personalities.

I've been having a lot of problems personally with keeping down my tone ingame, but lately I've held that back pretty decently. Untill I once again enter this bad streak of losing games, I get teamates that comment my every wrong move, and tells me about my "low intelligence". I know im not the first person to say this. But the way that the matchmaking has been built up, really destroys the fun in the game for me.

So i know it's impossible to just change the mathchmaking. So instead what I wanna do is start keeping down my tone, even when people start talking down to me, and instead report them for their negative behavior.

What I'd love for Riot to improve is to look into more of these reports, I do realise that they probably get millions of reports every day. But the maybe create a better system?

I really love the game, I spend a lot of time on it, and it sorta feels like a hobby to me and my friends. I'd love to keep playing it, but it seriously needs improvements. We're living in a world of improvements, tag a long. The community needs improvements. Thanks for taking your time to read this.

13 Comments

ShinkoMinori1 votes

So are you saying they were toxic to you for no reason?

Drugoth2 votes

Not an impossibility.

Duehoelm1 votes

I'm sure they had reasons to think that I lost their games. Still, that's not really a fair reason to hope for the death of my family?

Sorin Alucard1 votes

Yes we desperately need better moderation in the community cuz holy shit its bad. People think that telling their allies how bad they are helps but then they want a pass for their behavior because they feel they're better at the game than the people they trash talk.

ShinkoMinori1 votes

But everything below gold is bad...

Duehoelm1 votes

I agree, the lower you are, the more filthy scums you meet. And it makes sense tbh: Talk shit and you'll tilt your allies, and will make winning a really hard job. let the assholes stay in the lower ranks...

Duehoelm1 votes

Tilting your teammates with trashtalking really only makes winning harder.

sanshaoye1 votes

according to riot's system, it's taboo to tell co-workers they suck or how bad their work is - even if it is terrible. you will notice on the board that they shift their goalposts regularly. for example, yesterday you can't insult people. okay fine go with healthy criticism then. then today they will tell you you type too much and that criticizing a teammate's actions even with a positive tone is toxic. "they can check a guide if they want advice" is a quote from a cheerleader for your reference

Duehoelm1 votes

There is not much they can do with all the flamers, there is just simply too many. But I agree, I have been playing since season 1, and I haven't seen any real change been made from riot. Not anything that helped against the toxicity. Not even the honorsystem. We should hit harder, and make reports more meaningful. Fx. if your whole goddamn team reports you for negative attitude etc. You shouldn't be able to play for a week...

General Esdeath 1 votes

Yeah, I don't know why winstreaks and promos tend to put you with the most toxic people. I never saw a death threat anywhere outside of promos.

Duehoelm1 votes

Playing my promos, I tend to get teammates with either a lot higher mmr than me or a lot lower. I don't really think that makes sense. Promos should have the same kind og matchmaking, as every other game.

ardentbeing1 votes

A community-wide reform for positivity requires the community itself to decide toxicity and negativity aren't good. What we have is a lot of folks complaining about how toxic things are but aren't putting their foot forward to be positive themselves.(I'm not saying that's you, I think making this post shows you care and want the game to be better attitude-wise)

Riot can only do so much- from what I understand, while everyone likes to think Tribunal was good and did well, it just didn't. It was too slow to dish out justice, often inaccurate or misrepresented, and couldn't cover the amount of negativity in the game. They came out with the IFS system which we have today and that will automatically take on problem players on a much wider scale.

I'm not going to pretend the IFS is perfect, or that you're wrong- it definitely needs improving! But I think the major/actual problem is that negative players either just straight up don't care about the game(or at least improving at it) and play it because they're bored and it's free, or other players really upset by the former and rage/flame in chat and make things worse.

It's not the easy answer- Riot knew that going in and that's why they tackle behavior in ways other games don't. They'd have to, I imagine, come up with a better detection method for negativity that behaves differently from the IFS, which probably requires a ton of technical knowledge and god knows what. Or they make a new tribunal with better rules/efficient methods and rewards for participants ALONGSIDE the IFS. Or maybe some 3rd answer I don't know. xD

Thanks for the post anywho!

Duehoelm1 votes

I agree with everything you're saying. Especially that riot cannot just start removing the hundreds of thousands toxic players. And that's why I think that the matchmaking should be fixed. Im plat 4 atm, and the highest rank I've been is plat 1. As I see it, the higher rank you are, the fewer toxic scums you meet. And I've been having serious troubles with climbing ranks, due to toxic people thrash talking, and tilting my.

"Just because you're doing well in your role and have high MMR doesn't mean they can throw you in with 4 bads and expect you to carry."

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