Riot needs to come up with a better word for players who can't control their emotions. It's too easy for students to bully other students after finding out they were punished in game by calling them a "toxic person" in real life. A person may have trouble with their temper in video games, but otherwise be a good person, so this label simply aint right.
If you're treating other people in video games poorly you're still treating actual people poorly. Interacting with them through the internet doesn't make them any less of a person.
The only difference is the chance of social consequences are low for treating someone poorly online (since there's less chance that people IRL will know about your behavior online). Feeling protected by that low chance does not make your behavior any better.
I'm pretty sure there's a thousand other words that are more worse and vulgar to be used to insult others more than "toxic".
The word your looking for is flame. because that is what most people are referring to when they talk about "toxicity" here... look up the definition for both. Educate yourself and your friends :)
Linked for reference, its sad so many people don't know the difference... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Toxic%20%28Online%29
During GDC, they use "disruptive behavior" instead. But how does it matter?
