The difference between you and me is I don&#x27;t view disagreement, even strong disagreement, as toxic behavior.<p>Which is the other part of the community that frustrates me.  Riot has spent a lot of time worrying about &quot;chat toxicity&quot; when in fact it&#x27;s a non-issue due to the mute feature.  They&#x27;ve put all this effort into machine learning so they can start banning people automatically for things people find offensive (IIRC, one of their touted successes was folks in asian countries using last names as an insult.  The system learned that was offensive and started suspending people automatically for doing it).<p>Imagine if all that effort was instead put into social engineering to help tamp down on people&#x27;s frustrations with ranked.<p>But it won&#x27;t be, because ultimately the really loud people are those like you who think disagreement or criticism is tantamount to being toxic (instead of demanding that they change the ranked system to put less power in the hands of the assholes).  And yes, I did catch that you edited in that jab about me being toxic after the fact, did you seriously think you were going to get a rise out of me?<p>The truth is I&#x27;ve been playing multiplayer games since the old MUD days before Ultima Online and Everquest were ever a thing.  Back when colored text was considered a luxury and people would switch clients based upon the speed of the triggers (especially for pk).  I&#x27;ve been involved in enough communities that someone calling me a bad name on the internet rolls off my back.<p>But you know what doesn&#x27;t roll off my back?  Having someone announce in champ select &quot;mid or feed&quot;, or &quot;me and X duo bot or feed&quot; and then watching everyone else forced into the following decisions:<p>1) give them what they want,
2) refuse and risk wasting 2 hours of your time (an extra game to make up for the loss)
3) dodging and being forced to sit out for 30 minutes.<p>Because riot doesn&#x27;t give them a 4th option
4) opt into giving up the game early.<p>Here&#x27;s how poorly designed Riot&#x27;s ranked system is.<p>This is the internet.  This means people will have disconnection issues.  It&#x27;s normal.<p>If someone fails to connect to the game (from minute 0), Riot forces the other 4 players to continue playing the game.  If any of those 4 players leave they risk getting suspended or banned, and no matter what they do, they take a loss on their ranked record.  They automatically lose 2 hours of their life because someone&#x27;s internet crapped out.<p>Of course people find that shit frustrating.<p>A primary reason Riot has so many shitty people acting shitty in their system is because the design of their system gives those bad actors all of the power.<p>For anyone who is truly curious, watch this video.  This man is spot on, and if you doubt it, keep in mind that I stopped playing the game specifically for the reasons this man spoke about.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5UfO7qOHx5M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5UfO7qOHx5M</a>