PSA: being overly 'positive' in chat towards players in a way that you know is tilting...

The Sword Saint·11/13/2017, 7:05:05 PM·4 votes·952 views

..is a paper thin mask for your toxic intentions, and it will catch up to you. You may think that you're being clever, but if enough people report you for being negative without the IFS kicking in for obvious hate speech there will eventually be a manual review of your chat logs and real humans won't find it difficult to discover your less than positive intentions. Especially since riot has access to at a minimum the same match history data as everyone else does, which include who died when and where, build orders and timings, and even where champions spent their time on the map.

Throwing out a sarcastic 'gj :D' or other similar 'positive' phrase every time someone dies or otherwise makes a mistake, encouraging someone in chat while you follow them around and steal their farm constantly, etc. may keep you safe from automated systems in the short term, but make no mistake: it IS griefing and it WILL catch up to you.

When it does, I fully expect these kind of people to show up here on the player behavior boards and complain that they got 'unjustly banned' while waving around their chatlogs. I welcome it, for the inevitable smyting that will come once someone takes a moment to review their accounts.

25 Comments

Gigglingdeath11/13/2017, 7:13:17 PM6 votes

Nice post. Gj man :D

Brutalmore11/13/2017, 7:07:34 PM4 votes

/mute all and focus on the match and your gameplay. Stop feeding into others and letting whatever banter they have bothered you.

MMWWMWMWMMWWMWMM11/13/2017, 7:15:25 PM3 votes

so we cant even be sarcastic anymore ? not even a gj :D... seems like you need to cope with things like that better rather than post this assuming everyone will be banned for pinging you when you die and saying "gg ez"

Silent Gravity11/13/2017, 7:30:59 PM2 votes

You are correct in that they will be punished eventually.

Kingslayër11/13/2017, 7:07:05 PM2 votes

I assume that happened to you last game and you're tilted.

PresBushDid71111/13/2017, 9:02:45 PM1 votes

Lol, I do this all the time. Mid gives up FB at the 2:15 mark? "Gj". Adc misses point blank skill shot? "Good ult"

Lol, I mean what is the report ticket going to say, "He told me I was doing a good job when I wasn't."?

Xidphel11/13/2017, 9:18:47 PM1 votes

but if enough people report you for being negative without the IFS kicking in for obvious hate speech there will eventually be a manual review

Citations needed

Sorin Alucard11/14/2017, 3:39:20 PM1 votes

lol use your mute button

toughen up

KatCallMe11/14/2017, 4:05:28 PM1 votes

Except thats not how any of this works lol. They will get away with it and you will lose when you finally snap. Riot Tantrum has already said that one report is the same as 9 reports. Number of reports has no effect. And their system is a dumb robot that will never learn right from wrong.

GeminiRune11/13/2017, 7:30:23 PM1 votes

I'm positive because it's better than being negative to the point of grievance. I tilt when I get those occasional ping spikes but that's never really long lasting. I'll embrace getting my ass kicked and not tilt from it because I know I'm not perfect. If the opposing team wants to stroke an ego I can choose not to entertain it.

I rather have fun than to emit any means of toxicity. That's no mask to me; it's my way to play.

xXPeterNorthXx11/13/2017, 7:52:15 PM1 votes

no it won't. and if it does happen, it will be one in a million times. who cares? hope it happens to you frequently in the future so you can cry some more

Negativity11/13/2017, 8:07:39 PM1 votes

Good luck stopping me bub Honor 5 Passively sarcastic leaguer here. :) i say nice thing but I sit on discord and throw out profane non-sense but I don't do it in game, and my grp all vent this way. But I'm game the 0-11 yasuo "you got this man" he doesn't got it tho but it's just a game after all

Strilter11/13/2017, 8:42:55 PM1 votes

I mean I don't know about you but sincere or not I like getting my dick sucked.