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Can we talk about the "Enemies are Missing" pings?

Feorana·4/13/2018, 1:25:46 AM·11 votes·8,007 views

Okay, so I'm going to preface this by saying, I know this has been said before, and I know you can just mute pings.

BUT I've got to say, people abusing this ping to harass teammates for making a single mistake is one of my biggest pet peeves since I came back to league a couple of months ago. I took a year and a half off. I left due to toxicity, and it seems like the game has improved in that regard, but honestly the pings getting used in that way really drives me insane.

Honestly, It's akin to someone typing "you're an indiot" in chat, and it tilts people. Especially if it's the first 3 minutes of the game, and you do one tiny thing wrong and get blasted with question marks. That's uncalled for, and I feel like it's toxic behavior. But I'm not sure if people actually get punished for abusing it. I report everyone that does, but I haven't gotten one of those "a player your reported got punished." messages in a long time.

I'm wondering if changing the symbol for that ping to make it not a question mark would be better. I know people are going to abuse whatever they have to be jerks, it's just human nature. But let's make it harder for those people.

19 Comments

MUSHROOM MIDGET4/13/2018, 4:31:49 AM4 votes

its a pretty idiotic thing to do. like what is the purpose of ? spamming a teammate when they make a mistake? best case they mute your pings worst case you tilt them into feeding.

but I don't see what can be done about it. you could change the ? ping into a smiley face and people are still going to be toxic with it

SeductiveCelery4/13/2018, 1:40:13 AM4 votes

if you're doing something thats questionable/leads to setting your team behind or looks like you will set your team behind, people question ping. riot says you cant get banned for question pinging.

besides, if 4 people clearly show that they dont like what you're doing/too risky then maybe take it as advice :)

comedybingbongs4/13/2018, 2:52:43 PM2 votes

If you don't want ping spam then make less mistakes and pay more attention. Honestly, NA has by far the least toxic server in all of League and all Riot has done is lower people's tolerance towards toxicity. The result being that people in NA "experience" high levels of toxicity despite the fact that NA, as I said, is the least toxic server.

Yesterday's Beyond the Rift episode with Cowsep proved this beyond 100% The NA server is so anal about what you can say and how you can express tilt that its forced people into very passive aggressive behavior like spam ping.

Letting people get away with saying more in chat would be the only way to get rid of passive aggressiveness. Because at the end of the day League is a very frustrating game. Very fun, but very frustrating. And people that like to win (which I know doesn't include most of the people on the Player Behavior boards but does include most players) are going to need an outlet for that frustration.

Kei1434/13/2018, 2:37:43 AM2 votes

Ping spam as a harassment tool is a punishable offense though...

I've seen a case of punishment on this boards 2 years ago.. or sometime around there.

A Nice Boy4/13/2018, 11:51:21 PM1 votes

NA soyboy grow up who gives a shit

Saltoryous1/5/2020, 11:03:59 AM1 votes

Didnt know it was used im such a toxic way lol I only spam it when my enemies are missing or when I or my teammate makes a major outplay haha

sarii fox4/13/2018, 1:58:23 AM1 votes

Hmm, I can see how this would bother you and I'm sorry.

I usually just find humor in it and I ping myself. I am one to laugh at my stupid and embarrassing mistakes (like a flash fail over the wall).

I know it's not this easy, and every situation is different, but in some cases perhaps try to see the humor in it? Like as a meme instead of an insult (not to say that memes are never insults).

Now of course, there are times when it's just downright tilting. Especially when it comes from someone who is flaming you in chat. That gets to me, too.

Cynikul4/13/2018, 9:08:24 AM1 votes

I think everyone takes this ping waaaaaa-y to seriously. I think its funny and (often) light hearted. Hell I use it on myself when I misplay.

If its literally being spammed to max amount? Sure different story, but 2-3 to joust at someone a little bit is fun, even when its on me.

Troll for Trump4/13/2018, 11:57:16 AM1 votes

It doesn't matter what you change it to, people are just assholes. It won't really make it much harder for them.

Look at mastery emotes, other emotes, and spamming a dance/taunt/laugh animation. People use all those to BM. Hard.