Everyone thinks being low-key toxic is fine and it's really annoying

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“I’m glad I didn’t get you on my team” after someone kills you trying to flank them.
“This game is so boring” says the tank on the team that’s winning easily.
The offensive “gg” when they captured 2CP on their first push, with some form of “easy” attached to it.
“Swap off widow, you’re useless” or “I see you finally got your first kill, Widow”
(the language is usually more colourful, but I don’t think that would be fitting for the forums)

Stuff like that in itself is super annoying, but if you decide to call them out on it and say anything like “don’t be an a-hole”, everyone gets super excited and starts calling you the toxic one and/or starts insulting you. Where’s the logic in that? Thinly veiled smug insults are great, but if you call someone out on it, you’re suddenly the bad-guy?

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Here’s the thing: If you can’t change them, change yourself!

I’m not saying that you schould be toxic. But I reckon you to find another way to communicate with your team without offending them.

Calling them out will lead to arguments and that won’t help either.

Instead of saying “You shouldn’t do this or be that”, say “Let’s do this or be that”

I personally noticed that the toxic players are a lot calmer if you try to motivate them, rather than convincing them to regret something.

If someone says early “gg ez”, I will answer with “It’s not over yet”
If someone says “Swap off widow, you’re useless” (I notice that she can’t get through), I will answer with “maybe we should rearrange our composition, we can’t get through”

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That’s the thing that annoys me, having to sit there and take abuse from people and everyone being like “yeah, that’s good, nothing wrong with that” and they’re all getting away with it and even encouraged to do more of it, when you have to pretend to not be bothered by it with these fake PMA responses.
I’m not going to rage back at them, but when I call someone out for being a bit of a prick, I would like to hope that others could at least support the idea of trying to get them to feel slightly bad about it.
I’m just a little tired of turning the other cheek and internalising my dislike of people acting like pricks.

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Sadly, that’s not how it works.
If you see someone getting bullied and you call the bully out, you will be the one who gets bullied. Trust me, I speak from experience.

I know it’s a pill that’s hard to swallow yet you can avoid it. You don’t have to call them out but you can belittle their brainless arguments. You can show that their bashes are meaningless. Just don’t start to be personal. Otherwise, it’ll backfire. Stay clear-headed and you’ll win against any argument with a toxic player.

Or you could just ignore it… Ignorance is bliss, after all :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Maybe you could try to have some schadenfreude or malicious joy. That’ll help. Change your mentality to “it’s just a game” and “I don’t mind defeat as long as I gave my best” and you soon will realize how ridiculous it is that those adult players turn into babies and cry about every little thing. I mean, come on… How stupid do you have to be to cry over a game? We’re not 6 years old anymore.

At least that’s how I keep myself sane.

If you see someone being low-key toxic, just report them. They won’t get punished right away but those reports stack up, leading to a penalty.

Lastly, since the endorsement system got live, toxicity has been declined rapidly. You are also able to look for groups with a higher endorsement level (if you have the same level) and thus you can play with nice people with a similar mentality like you. So it seems like the issue of toxicity is getting better.

:dragon:

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If that sort of stuff happens, Just instantly report them for toxicity, Don’t waste your time talking to people like that. Or at most just tell the person to stop being toxic

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Your team has 4 dps some guy says GG at start of the game, this gives me a message that i probably get a easy game, while giving your team a message that you probably not gonna switch off dps and try so why should they ?

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I think passive aggression is usually a by product of some sort of insecurity manifesting itself outwardly. In a way, it’s like a negative person trying to pass on some of their negativity to someone else, so that they themselves have less negativity and feel better. It’s hard to explain, but I’ve seen people like this. I know it’s real. In my personal experience, the best way to deal with this is to simply rise above it. Don’t give those types enough importance in your life. If you give it enough importance, you allow that negativity to seep in to your head, and you’re lightening the load on the toxic player and now you’re carrying their negativity around and now you have to find a way to release it.