Excessive pinging problem -- allow us to block offenders

Lyvectra·Feb 4, 2017·7 votes·758 views

I just had a game where 3 people on my team made a concerted effort to ping the map the entire game. Each one of them would ping as many times as they could, one after the other. Every other game now, if not more frequently, has this problem. People are abusing the ping system and it has gotten on my last nerve. People will ping the question mark over you incessantly every time you die. They will ping the question mark and the exclamation point over you as you're walking back to lane. They'll ping you just for walking around and killing minions. They ping every single instant and we CAN'T BLOCK THESE PEOPLE'S PINGS EVEN IF WE BLOCK THEIR CHAT MESSAGES.

Please allow us to block pings. The pings from these people are not important. They are so frequent that they become meaningless anyway, so just allow us to not hear them.

17 Comments

ŚtrongMentalFeb 4, 20171 votes

Esc -> Settings -> Sounds -> Scroll down to the bottom, click the mute button next to the ping -> hearing the ping is gone, ignore the players ??????????? and move on. Reset it before the game ends or it will be the same in the next game...

LyvectraFeb 4, 20173 votes

But what if I need to hear the pings of the players who aren't trolling?

EndlessSorcererFeb 4, 20176 votes

That mutes pings for all players.

Generally, people just want to block the toxic ping-spamming idiots since they aren't going to be contributing anything worthwhile.

ŚtrongMentalFeb 4, 20171 votes

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But what if I need to hear the pings of the players who aren't trolling?

you have a minimap, use it... should be paying more attention to it then the lane//jungle your in anyway

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That mutes pings for all players.

Generally, people just want to block the toxic ping-spamming idiots since they aren't going to be contributing anything worthwhile.

truth be told your right - but if sounds alter how your playing, remove the sound, and read my last statement

LyvectraFeb 4, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Renegade Xavier,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=t2KJVOKO,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-02-04T23:19:09.027+0000)

you have a minimap, use it... should be paying more attention to it then the lane//jungle your in anyway

truth be told your right - but if sounds alter how your playing, remove the sound, and read my last statement

It doesn't stop my character being surrounded by distracting visual pings either.

ŚtrongMentalFeb 4, 20171 votes

are you always looking at your character?

LyvectraFeb 4, 20171 votes

First of all, your question is not intended for relevant discussion; it is an attempt to start a tangential argument that is irrelevant to the discussion.

Second of all, even if I was only looking at my character for 10% of the time, then that 10% of the time would be filled 100% with---as I said---incessant, constant, never-ending pinging on top of my character.

Third of all, no.

LyvectraFeb 4, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Renegade Xavier,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=t2KJVOKO,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2017-02-04T23:27:24.051+0000)

are you always looking at your character?

First of all, your question is not intended for relevant discussion; it is an attempt to start a tangential argument that is irrelevant to the discussion.

Third of all, no.

ŚtrongMentalFeb 4, 20171 votes

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First of all, your question is not intended for relevant discussion; it is an attempt to start a tangential argument that is irrelevant to the discussion.

Second of all, even if I was only looking at my character for 10% of the time, then that 10% of the time would be filled 100% with---as I said---incessant, constant, never-ending pinging on top of my character.

Third of all, no.

Relevance TBD; simple no would of sufficed... thank you for that btw, regardless of why you think i'm asking a legitimate question; i asked for a reason - because those images coming up on your screen (though having the ability to see them) should hold no weight to the outcome of the game (other then, like one said before, that one person contributing less) - Removing the ping sound, and paying more attention else wear will net you the reward you want - problem solved.

LyvectraFeb 5, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Renegade Xavier,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=t2KJVOKO,comment-id=000200010000,timestamp=2017-02-04T23:50:35.787+0000)

Relevance TBD; simple no would of sufficed... thank you for that btw, regardless of why you think i'm asking a legitimate question; i asked for a reason - because those images coming up on your screen (though having the ability to see them) should hold no weight to the outcome of the game (other then, like one said before, that one person contributing less) - Removing the ping sound, and paying more attention else wear will net you the reward you want - problem solved.

I might agree about map awareness if this had been on Summoner's Rift. It was on Howling Abyss. There is barely any reason on ARAMs to ping at all normally, much less ping someone as they are walking back to the rest of the team. Or ping in the middle of a team fight after you die----why are they spam-pinging your dead body with question marks in the middle of fighting, or at all, as if you're supposed to do something about being dead? They are doing it ONLY to be assholes. (Then, when you ask them politely to stop, they start making up all these excuses as to why they're pinging as if there's any other reason behind it. And then start explaining how you're a shit player and that's why you deserve to be pinged out of your mind.) There is no reason to allow these players to continue to be able to ping the shit out of their chosen target that game, and I should not have to mute my entire team's pings due to the actions of individuals.

ŚtrongMentalFeb 5, 20171 votes

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I might agree about map awareness if this had been on Summoner's Rift. It was on Howling Abyss. There is barely any reason on ARAMs to ping at all normally, much less ping someone as they are walking back to the rest of the team. Or ping in the middle of a team fight after you die----why are they spam-pinging your dead body with question marks in the middle of fighting, or at all, as if you're supposed to do something about being dead? They are doing it ONLY to be assholes. (Then, when you ask them politely to stop, they start making up all these excuses as to why they're pinging as if there's any other reason behind it. And then start explaining how you're a shit player and that's why you deserve to be pinged out of your mind.) There is no reason to allow these players to continue to be able to ping the shit out of their chosen target that game, and I should not have to mute my entire team's pings due to the actions of a select few individuals.

i mean, if we're talking ARAM here, my entire argument is even more so valid (removing only focusing else wear), its and even better argument to muting pings, muting the player, and playing the game, you cant back to heal, you cant change how low//high your health is, you cannot effectively do anything except die or sit back and poke - ARAM is specifically about team fighting - regardless of the persons reasons, muting pings and watching the fight, thats exactly what ARAM is about lol when your dead, open the shop and you wont see any of the pings :D (and you can even enlarge the shop via the bottom right corner, making the minimap itself, not visible...) - Like you said "There is barely any reason on ARAMs to ping at all normally" so why would you need to see your other teammates pings at all honestly? the word "need" implies necessity, there really isnt necessity on ARAM...

LyvectraFeb 5, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Renegade Xavier,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=t2KJVOKO,comment-id=00020001000000000000,timestamp=2017-02-05T00:21:23.773+0000)

i mean, if we're talking ARAM here, my entire argument is even more so valid (removing only focusing else wear), its and even better argument to muting pings, muting the player, and playing the game, you cant back to heal, you cant change how low//high your health is, you cannot effectively do anything except die or sit back and poke - ARAM is specifically about team fighting - regardless of the persons reasons, muting pings and watching the fight, thats exactly what ARAM is about lol when your dead, open the shop and you wont see any of the pings :D (and you can even enlarge the shop via the bottom right corner, making the minimap itself, not visible...) - Like you said "There is barely any reason on ARAMs to ping at all normally" so why would you need to see your other teammates pings at all honestly? the word "need" implies necessity, there really isnt necessity on ARAM...

Because sometimes it IS helpful. And my argument doesn't make this any less relevant for Summoner's Rift.

dissensusFeb 5, 20171 votes

It would be great is players who spam pings could only do 2 pings each 30 sec. or so. But mute pings would hurt the game overall i think

h5LYF41LamFeb 5, 20171 votes

sometimes you have to ping some sense into some players,people legit dont take the mia ping seriously if u dont spam it

TrulyBlandFeb 6, 20171 votes

I get that Riot wants to have a minimum line of communication available. But I wonder if a compromise could be reached. They already have a system that blocks people using pings if they spam them too fast in succession. What if Riot made it possible to mute pings by players that run into that limitation X times in the same game?