A stupid reason to get reported

TheDiff·1/13/2016, 5:54:22 AM·5 votes·793 views

So I guess you can get reported and punished by telling people that they would rather fight meaningless battles instead of defending towers or pushing towers. I've gotten reported recently for harassment. Now, I'm not a toxic or salty person/player, but i can't help get tilted like any other player. However, all i tell peolpe are the obvious. Like: "Hey quit fighting in the river and defend mid turret." "We just aced them quit farming the jg. Shove a lane and push." "We just killed three people lets do Baron/dragon" To me, that is not harassment. That is trying to direct your team to be goal oriented within the game instead of doing pointless stuff. Instead of farming the jungle when they're pushing the tower, defend it. Instead of backing when we just aced them, push a little bit. I guess trying to direct your team to win is now toxic, and can be seen as harassment.

Now i understand there is a fine difference between doing this in a nice or mean mannor. The above statements is a nice mannor. You can still 'direct' your team in a toxic mannor like i see in my elo, silver/gold, quite to often. "Quit being useless and f**king push" Stuff like that i can understand getting reported, but i don't speak like that to people in my games. i just find it completely ridiculous.

20 Comments

Raka Flaka MD1/13/2016, 5:58:42 AM4 votes

If you got reported and you do nothing wrong then you don't have to worry. It's just an automated message.

Deep Terror Nami1/13/2016, 6:01:38 AM4 votes

I feel the most effective way to get people to follow your lead is to do one or both of 2 things;

  1. Make suggestions rather than orders. If they think it was their idea, it's even better.
  2. Call for positive action, not negative
  • Instead of saying "Don't do this", say "Do this instead"

While being more demanding and rough about it might not be "harassment" in any way, it's possible to rub people the wrong way and become annoying. If people don't want your advice, just don't give it to them anymore. Keep that in mind and you should be set, imo.

atomicwit1/13/2016, 8:57:56 AM3 votes

An idea like this could help deal with this problem.

From the examples you listed, that's definitely not toxic and people are just making false reports on you because they have an inferiority complex.

McAnnex1/13/2016, 2:34:34 PM2 votes

If someone is doing poorly and spending a lot of time text-coaching the team as if they are in charge, that can certainly come off as really annoying and I could see people reporting it.

SeekerofSilence1/13/2016, 3:58:19 PM2 votes

People are usually very sore when they're losing lane (especially solo laners because they can't really blame anyone else). Seeing someone try to teach them something basic which they already know (but that they don't pull off in real actions) can be very infuriating for some.

That's why I stopped coaching people, not only do I waste time typing an essay they probably won't read anyway, but I also get a bunch of annoyed, tilted players yelling at me. c:

Troll Armada1/13/2016, 6:41:45 AM1 votes

You got reported not punished. Learn the difference. m'kay?

Lithium Rosa1/14/2016, 4:08:09 PM1 votes

I receive fake reports all the time from mad trolls. Any actual punishment will be investigated manually so don't worry.