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Harder punishments needed for trolling

Troxic··3 votes·511 views

Today I had a match where Thresh build AD items, no support items and no vision, died a lot and said he didn't care.

I'm sorry but no. That person shouldn't be allowed to play the game ever again.

I strongly believe that intentional trolling in ranked should be subject to zero tolerance policy. Not only should the offenders account be banned, any accounts associated with the same email should be banned and any accounts associated with any payment methods on his account should also be banned.

This should be very clearly explained in an update to the policy so that existing players and new players know what kind of behavoir in ranked is not tolerated.

To me, this is not excusable. I can understand flaming, being toxic, upset, having a bad match, disconnecting because life happens etc. But not this. This has no excuse and these people need to not be playing ranked.

Riot, you claim that you read the boards. Well respond to this and tell me any good reason why this shouldn't be adopted as a policy.

12 Comments

DaFluffyPotato2 votes

There isn't anything wrong with off-meta builds or picks. This becomes trolling if they do it just to make people mad.

died a lot and said he didn't care.

First of all, I don't know whether or not this was a ranked game(if it's blind or draft, it's not a big deal), even if it was, if he's not obviously inting(which is different from just dying a lot) it's fine.

Chermorg1 votes

If they do it to make people mad it's being a jerk but not necessarily trolling. If they're trying to win the game, it's not trolling - no matter who gets mad.

ExaggeratedToast1 votes

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If they do it to make people mad it's being a jerk but not necessarily trolling. If they're trying to win the game, it's not trolling - no matter who gets mad.

if he truly said "I didn't care" it is a reportable and if falls under the negative attitude report. you can't give up if your team doesn't want to give up.

Chermorg1 votes

If he said it once, he's not going to get punished for it. Even then, that's a chat offense, not trolling.

ExaggeratedToast1 votes

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If he said it once, he's not going to get punished for it. Even then, that's a chat offense, not trolling.

how is not caring/giving up a rank game a chat offense?

it's reportable none the less, not up to us if gets him banned or not, id report it still because if he is making a habit of not caring about ranked games he will surely get a ban, if it's a single incident then maybe not... idk, id just report and move on with my life

Chermorg1 votes

Actually giving up is an AFK/leaving offense. Simply dying and saying "I give up" is a chat offense until they start to act (or not act, in this case) on it.

ExaggeratedToast1 votes

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Actually giving up is an AFK/leaving offense. Simply dying and saying "I give up" is a chat offense until they start to act (or not act, in this case) on it.

Clearly we don't know if he even said it, much less act the part. I'd report and move on with life.

Zezockary1 votes

I used to play a lot with someone who went ad Thresh support. It worked quite well. I played TF adc and we basically both peeled for each other and did a bunch of dps, and we both made sure to keep vision up. Those are the kinds of ways you can help in a situation like this.

Don't assume that just because someone is playing off meta and doing poorly that they are trolling.

ExaggeratedToast1 votes

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I used to play a lot with someone who went ad Thresh support. It worked quite well. I played TF adc and we basically both peeled for each other and did a bunch of dps, and we both made sure to keep vision up. Those are the kinds of ways you can help in a situation like this.

Don't assume that just because someone is playing off meta and doing poorly that they are trolling.

he claimed the player said he didn't care, that is reportable under negative attitude.

Zezockary1 votes

Actually, because of how dependent on context that phrase being negative is it would be pretty difficult to get punished for it. For example, if someone said to you "If you keep pushing top they will probably take bottom turret." and you replied, "I don't care, I will get two turrets" then that wouldn't be punishable.

In some logs it could contribute to a punishment, but it would not be punishable by itself.

ExaggeratedToast1 votes

In some logs it could contribute to a punishment, but it would not be punishable by itself.

exactly i agree, not going to not report tho, because Id like to help present evidence to riot if he is truly being negative and leave it in their hands

ExaggeratedToast1 votes

Personally i think your request is too unreasonable given that proving someone is trolling or legitimately trying to make something work, if he truly said he didn't care of gave up you can report it and move on. If he actually is guilty of intentionally throwing games becuase of his lack of concern of how the game plays out i'm sure it will show in reports and he will receive his punishment from riot.

meanwhile try to keep yourself from falling into toxic mode, i know sometimes i snap back at these players and it's not the right reaction we should have. goodluck in feature games

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