Remember when you were in school and a bully pounded your face into a locker and you took a swing back at the bully and you, the bully's victim, were the one that got caught and suspended? Well, that's what Riot does. They penalize you the victim because you didn't report the bully. Victims often do not report the bully. More often than not, victims stay silent. The bully and the bully's premade friends reported you, and Riot then penalized you, the original victim, for taking that swing at the bully and defending yourself, and no matter how much honor you had, you as the victim get ALL of your honor stripped away and you, the victim, have to earn your honor back, if you even give a care about honor anymore after this injustice, and NOTHING happens to the bullies that just kept on pushing you until you took that swing back at them.
According to Riot, you're supposed to turn the other cheek and let the bully get away with being a bully. You're NOT supposed to defend yourself from a bully. You're just supposed to do nothing and let the bully repeatedly pound the crap out of you, because of this policy of penalizing the victims, Riot promotes bullying behavior and penalizes the victims who defend themselves.
Way too often, it's the bully and the bully's premade friends that are the ones making the reports, and Riot is making those bullies feel powerful by penalizing the bullies' victims.
You see, I'm that guy that defended the victims from the bullies. I put myself between the bully and the victim and made the bully stop the behavior in my presence. I've been told I have a real "Boy Scout" complex. I won't let a bully get away with bullying myself or other people. I will step in and put a stop to it. Now, apparently according to Riot that makes me toxic, however, I am not the person that initiates the toxic behavior, however, I am the one that Riot penalizes. Riot does NOT penalize the bully, just the one that diverts the bully's attention off of the initial victim or the one that takes a swing back at the bully.
When I was at my father's funeral, a person came up to me and hugged me and with tears in his eyes told me thank you. He then walked away and went to leave the building. I was a bit preoccupied at the time. Many people wanted my attention during that time and I was a bit numb. My girlfriend caught him before he left the building and asked him about it. He said that he was the victim of a bully who repeatedly tried to victimize him and somehow I was always there to get the bully off of him. He said that I convinced the bully not to victimize him anymore and that I had made his years in school much better.
Funny thing is, it is so ingrained in my nature to defend myself and the victims that I have no idea who that person was that hugged me and thanked me because I've defended so many, but I made his life better and I don't regret that.
My father taught me that if someone bullied me to push back harder than the bully to stop the bully. Sure, the bully had his little posse, but I pushed back each and every single time no matter how outnumbered I was. That's how you back down a bully. You push back. My father also taught me that if you see someone being bullied who could not defend themselves to step in and that to do nothing was just as much a crime as what the bully was doing to the victim.
I do NOT regret ever standing up to a bully. Riot penalizes me for doing this. Perhaps the people at Riot never had someone stand up to a bully for them in their early lives, or perhaps the people at Riot just are bullies themselves and see nothing wrong with the bullies behavior.
I'm sure the bullies find it really funny when they report their victims and the people who stand up to them. Riot penalizes those who stand up to the bullies and the bullies victims. Victims tend to remain silent. It's human nature.
I guess Riot's motto is, "Punish the Victims and Reward the Bullies."
