"Ping me again"

Makior72·Jan 24, 2016·3 votes·683 views

Funny story / question

Words spoken by a vayne in one of my matches last night.

They were angry that our support was pinging them too much (subjective, imo it was not spam) and said "ping me again" after a long winded rude statement directed at the team. A few seconds go by and just for laughs i start spamming pings on him and so did the rest of the team. We thought it was fucking hillariois but vayne left the game =(

We still won the game 4v5 for a while then vayne came back and didnt say another word just played and we won.

Given the above circumstances would you consider spamming pings like the team did harassment? I mean he DID ask us to after all...

10 Comments

Raka Flaka MDJan 24, 20163 votes

Id say yes it could fall under that. Is it going to get you banned? most likely not.

shark musicJan 24, 20163 votes

If someone asks you to stop bothering them, you should stop bothering them. You don't get to decide what someone else finds stressful or annoying and overrule them. See also: every law ever written concerning bullying or sexual harassment. I mean, really, you need that explained to you? In 2016? Come on, man.

And the map pings drive some people crazy because most map pingers are so ridiculously freaking stupid.

Like, you don't need to spam danger !'s at someone who is mid-combat. They know they're in danger. You're just creating a distraction in the middle of a tense situation, not helping in any way, at all. Similarly, you don't need to !!!!! at people who are already running away from the thing you're !!!!!ing about. You don't need to blanket the bushes in map pings when we're standing next to each other, and we both just watched that guy walk into the bushes. I mean, if I'm not blind, I already know, and if I AM blind, I can't see your map pings either, can I?

It's awesome when someone uses map pings to alert you about something that isn't obvious, but 90% of !!!!!!!! pings are really just someone being a spazzy control freak who's trying to micromanage his/her team via the map. Go play an RTS if you want psychotic levels of control over everything in your field of vision.

Makior72Jan 24, 20161 votes

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If someone asks you to stop bothering them, you should stop bothering them. You don't get to decide what someone else finds stressful or annoying and overrule them. See also: every law ever written concerning bullying or sexual harassment. I mean, really, you need that explained to you? In 2016? Come on, man.

And the map pings drive some people crazy because most map pingers are so ridiculously freaking stupid.

Like, you don't need to spam danger !'s at someone who is mid-combat. They know they're in danger. You're just creating a distraction in the middle of a tense situation, not helping in any way, at all. Similarly, you don't need to !!!!! at people who are already running away from the thing you're !!!!!ing about. You don't need to blanket the bushes in map pings when we're standing next to each other, and we both just watched that guy walk into the bushes. I mean, if I'm not blind, I already know, and if I AM blind, I can't see your map pings either, can I?

It's awesome when someone uses map pings to alert you about something that isn't obvious, but 90% of !!!!!!!! pings are really just someone being a spazzy control freak who's trying to micromanage his/her team via the map. Go play an RTS if you want psychotic levels of control over everything in your field of vision.

use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.

The above is the definition of bullying. I would say that the behavior may have been jerkish but does not fit into the definition of bullying.

KrigjerJan 24, 20162 votes

Like, you don't need to spam danger !'s at someone who is mid-combat. They know they're in danger. You're just creating a distraction in the middle of a tense situation, not helping in any way, at all. Similarly, you don't need to !!!!! at people who are already running away from the thing you're !!!!!ing about.

Jesus, THIS. I can't tell you how many times a teammate's well-meaning careful ping has made me doubt my decision, and I would have either made a clean escape or a clean kill. Then you have people pinging you to fall back when you're surrounded or already caught in some form of cc. Totally helpful.

but 90% of !!!!!!!! pings are really just someone being a spazzy control freak who's trying to micromanage his/her team via the map.

I've seen a huge influx of top/mid players that will spam ping bot lane (I play bot lane 99% of the time). Please watch your own lane unless you're pinging about a specific danger (like an incoming teleport or you saw your mid head down river)

The Bearded BardJan 24, 20162 votes

I mean he was a vayne player, you should have expected him to react childishly to a joke.

I get pretty annoyed with pings I don't find useful as well, especially since there's no way to turn them off. I wouldn't have reacted the same way, but I definitely wouldn't have been nice about telling you off about spam pinging.

KrigjerJan 24, 20162 votes

I have pings muted because I'm sick of people spamming them at me.

Whether you think it's spam or not is irrelevant. When I ask politely for you to ping me less, please do it.

It's a way to tilt your team that can't be detected by the system like words, honestly.

Poptart EvelynnJan 24, 20162 votes

Well you harassed him. What did you expect?

Vistha KaiJan 24, 20161 votes

There's a limit to everything.

If somebody screwed, you don't need to remind them about it until they get fed up with you. It's counter-productive and if you didn't see it coming, thinking it's funny...

Let's say that you should be thankful for having that Vayne on your team, because if I was there I'd not simply quit, but make that game a living hell for you.

Also, what he actually meant by saying "ping me again" was a warning. Too short-sighted to notice something so obvious, eh?

KrigjerJan 24, 20161 votes

If somebody screwed, you don't need to remind them about it until they get fed up with you. It's counter-productive and if you didn't see it coming, thinking it's funny...

People seem to think it's hilarious to, after you've asked kindly for them to ping just a little less, they decide to spam ping you. Or even worse, spam ping your corpse every time you die.

This is accomplishing nothing but making your teammate tilt, and I honestly wish there was a way to track it because it should count as toxicity at this point.

Makior72Jan 24, 20161 votes

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There's a limit to everything.

If somebody screwed, you don't need to remind them about it until they get fed up with you. It's counter-productive and if you didn't see it coming, thinking it's funny...

Let's say that you should be thankful for having that Vayne on your team, because if I was there I'd not simply quit, but make that game a living hell for you.

Also, what he actually meant by saying "ping me again" was a warning. Too short-sighted to notice something so obvious, eh?

Short sightedness has nothing to do with it, sorry that sarcasm isnt your strong suit. (to be fair it also does not translate well via text most of the time)

Of corse i know it was a warning. But since he was being very immature about the whole thing the entire team pinged him as a way to collectively say "lol get over it" he left and came back later after we had won a teamfight without him and taken a tower and a dragon. All parties are to some degree in the wrong, but anyone who doesnt find the teams reaction to this guy at least a little funny should probly remove the stick from their bum.