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Update to the above:

/deafen will send a message to the rest of the lobby that you wont be participating in chat, and needs to be typed every game. It's good if you find yourself sucked into a flame war and need to re focus on the game.

party chat is a persistent setting that will remove you from the chat without letting other players know. Its perfect if you just want to play the game without worrying about chat.

Hello!

There's a lot of both bad and good out there on the ladder. I think setting good boundaries and knowing what gets under your skin is the key to enjoying your ranked experience.

Here's some features you can use to control how you interact with chat especially:

• Mute: From the tab scoreboard choose someone to mute and then choose whether to mute their chat or pings as well. If someones being especially disruptive, sending a verbal abuse report auto mutes them as well.
• Party Chat: Either in game or pre game you can set your chat settings to "Party Only" if you dont want to see chat from either your team or enemies. Totally fine with us!
• /Deafen. If you normally enjoy chat but sometimes find it distracting and just need an off switch then typing /deafen will mute every chat channel and send a message to the other players in the game that you wont be responding anymore.

Hope you enjoy your ranked experience and welcome...

I'm gonna say... boots.

They're so good!!!

Thanks for sharing! <3

We found that after a player gets muted the other players in game tend to talk about it. Often, the things they have to say about the person who got muted aren't very fun to read, and it sucks having to read that without being able to defend yourself. So we made the decision to just mute the player too.

Since the system that drives this is a lot simpler than our after game chat stuff, it catches a lot more false positives. That sucks, but we think it's worth it to get certain words out of the game (although we can always improve).

But because of that we don't do any extra punishing for the chat messages we mute.

Wait this is kinda genius.

We're watching closely.

Almost all the rank restricted games I've checked have been played in good faith so far. Unless that changes we'll keep it as is.

Something people miss in this conversation is that most of the people who get these restrictions are restricted for text chat. They aren't running it down when they get the punishment, so they don't tend to run it down in normals either.

But even a few people ruining games intentionally is really really bad, and we know its not 0. We need to keep a close eye on how people are playing in order to tell if its small enough to be worth what we think is a more effective penalty.

Oops!

I got confused and thought the current patch was 13.20.

TBF it's a pretty hard problem.

Riot does do collabs with other companies to talk about this stuff, notably Fair Play Alliance, but each company/game has its own unique challenges that make one size fits all approaches hard.

This ones wierd but it has less to do with mercy and more to do with what works.

Excessively punishing someone who wasn't going to reoffend anyway causes more problems than it solves.

Can you dm me the game id's?

Edit: Also gonna take this opportunity to restate some things about ranked restrictions:

• Toxicity in general: We believe that the vast majority of the toxicity in the game is not a few people being consistently toxic, but a bunch of people being infrequently toxic.
  • https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-pl/news/dev/dev-making-behavioral-systems-matter-more/
• Ranked Restrictions: We currently dont believe most players who get ranked restrictions are working off their penalties by forcing fast losses.
  • If that changes...

I don't think they're at odds at all.

You can 'play to win' without lpmaxing the way you do in ranked. You can play to win while picking a new champ, you can play to win while trying out a new role.

But when people are grinding ranked they are usually trying to max out their 'lp per time spent' function. We want players with ranked restrictions to do their best in their games, but not need to fret over every point of winrate.

We'll be watching to make sure they do, and we might make changes to the system if we find that players are dedicated to throwing in order to churn through their remedial games.

The first time someone gets picked up by feeding detection they get a two week ban.

The second time it's a perma. (In most regions)

Fun fact: afks wont tick down ranked restrictions. Instead they will reset them.

We ditched it mostly because we lost it during the client upgrade/other backend changes rather than as an intentional "lets turn this off" moment.

But it's true, ranked restrictions were much maligned by players. This is because

• They were way too harsh. 30-50 wins with stacking meant that players could feel buried without path to reform.
• They were still stressful. You had to compete to win just as hard as in ranked, but now you were in an environment where your team was just playing to have fun.

So we're reimplementing the old system to accomplish the same goals, but removing the biggest points of frustration.

Correct. Our stance on prisoners island hasn't changed since that post.

We'd much rather give players a break and a chance to recenter themselves than create a space that normalizes the behavior we're trying to change.

Hey thanks :)

This.

(But for the record, feeding is permabannable)

"Die with glory!" If you're on the enemy teams side of the map and half the team dies, keep fighting, don't run back to your side of the map.

Upvote for being a Midelynn enjoyer. I too used to enjoy going invisible and just watching the midlaner decide what to do about it.