Toxicness in games.

PunisherJBY··1 votes·563 views

This is more of a question for the community. Do you feel like we just have to accept toxicness and really there is nothing we can do? I constantly get paired against people who feel the need to trash talk, and unfortunately my friends do it too. And it always gets to the point of toxic. I feel like I shouldn't even bother trying to report people because i know it is never going to do anything. Does anyone else feel that way? Is it just something we need to accept?

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And Im Limp1 votes

I feel the same way honestly, for the past couple of days I have been paired with toxic players that I have reported along with one of my friends doing the same, it seems like it never does anything. The only time it has ever worked is when me and 3 of my friends and some of the enemy team reported a toxic Shaco that no longer than 5 minutes later they were suspended. There is no point of the report system because you need almost both teams to report them for being toxic in which case most of the time no one reports them anyways.

PunisherJBY1 votes

Yeah. I just get frustrated. Like I'll be playing and one of us will die so someone will just type "outplayed" in all chat to rile people up and the person who dies will defend themselves (I mean duh what else can they do). Then the other team will start targeting that person calling them garbage and stuff. And it just gets frustrating that this is a daily thing. Like i love this game but the community seems to prefer putting people down and making sure others don't improve.

o Maui o1 votes

Actually, the system doesn't care much about a single game, no matter how many reports there are (unless there was some SERIOUSLY nasty stuff said--threats of violence, racist/homophobic slurs, that kind of thing). The system looks more for patterns of behavior--meaning players who are routinely reported in more games than the rest of League. Once it detects that a player is drawing more reports than usual, that player's logs get reviewed.

A single report is enough to flag a game.

o Maui o1 votes

If you think that reports don't really do anything, then... well, just read around this forum a little. There are plenty of people complaining about their chat restrictions and bans.

Basically, people who are chronically reported are given a warning. If the reports continue, their chat logs get reviewed. If the reports are verified, they start getting chat restrictions, followed by bans. Basically after the warning they are given three chances (two chat restrictions and a 2-week ban) to reform their behavior, and if they don't change then their account is permanently closed.

Hope this helps!

PunisherJBY1 votes

Well I think my problem is I just see so much of this I am becoming numb to it. Like "well that is just the way this game is". Sure i know people are getting banned, but i just am getting tired of the attitudes of people i play with to where i feel like even if i report them nothing is going to change.

o Maui o1 votes

As someone who really likes League, I'm going to be honest with you: I sometimes feel the same way. My (imperfect) solutions:

  1. In the immediate game, I recognize that I can do very little to curb toxicity. Generally speaking I may say something to try to calm the situation (e.g. "let's focus on objectives" or "please just mute each other" if I think it won't make things worse) and if the situation continues I just start muting people and report after the game. If it's directed at me, I will ignore it as long as I can, and then mute and report after the game.

  2. THIS ONE REALLY HELPS: Find people to play with. Queuing with two friends that you know aren't jerks cuts the number of potentially toxic teammates in half. I try not to queue alone whenever I can, and when I do have to queue alone I generally stick to less intense game modes (ARAM and TB primarily).

  3. I have a very positive attitude, and I think people underestimate how much a positive attitude and general friendliness affect the behavior or people around you. Just like you won't be able to stop a determinedly negative person from being negative, I do my best to find ways to be positive (even when I probably shouldn't be) and, when I speak at all, try to say encouraging things to my teammates.

PunisherJBY1 votes

Yeah those are good tips. I just wish the game was more newby friendly. Like I want to get better at it (and will admittedly get frustrated with unskilled team mates) but i never say it in chat (unless i think they are trolling). But I would love to be able to suggest this game to friends and not thing "wait i wonder if they can handle constantly being told they are garbage or some other words i don't like using". No one helps each other. We just blame and try to put others down. Maybe i read into it too much but i wish there was more we as a community could do to try and lower the toxicity. Worst part is when people do get banned they just make smurfs and create the toxicity in the lower levels making those people think "Oh this is what high ranked players are like"

M15TAH JAY1 votes

I'm kind of passive aggressive about it...some of these toxic players just use the game as an outlet due to their own personal frustrations

kaleb bartlett1 votes

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This is more of a question for the community. Do you feel like we just have to accept toxicness and really there is nothing we can do? I constantly get paired against people who feel the need to trash talk, and unfortunately my friends do it too. And it always gets to the point of toxic. I feel like I shouldn't even bother trying to report people because i know it is never going to do anything. Does anyone else feel that way? Is it just something we need to accept?

If you DON'T report then they WON'T be punished... that's the problem. People think that 'well they won't get punished so why bother' which only continues the BS. If you WANT it to stop, then report the people that are acting like jackasses, even if it's one of your friends.

Sona Ping1 votes

"Do you feel like we just have to accept that people may be rude and do things we don't want them to and really there is nothing we can do about human nature?" Yeah, accepting that would probably be a better life choice.

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