User blog comment:Canopenerdude/OMG YOU NOOB/@comment-82.181.167.206-20130327204452

Too lazy to read all the comments so I don't know if this has been brought up already but: What would happen if you'd put up a 5v5 game full of "toxic players" (and I mean all 10 would be toxic), and would happen in reverse, with "non-toxic players"?

Here's my theory: Both games would most likely have the same kind of behaviour you see in a game where there's at least one A-hole. You must be thinking now that it wouldn't be possible in a game full of positive, sportsmanlike gamers. Think again, if you are one of those people who thrive for positiveness, have you ever felt frustrated with one (or more) of your teammates' performance in field or chat, even if that person didn't intend to do any harm by it? If not from the first mistake, how about from the second, or maybe the fifth? What did you feel like doing?

If you've truly never raged to your teammates, try to think it like this: Your boss gave you a scolding at work today, your girlfriend (or boyfriend) got mad at you and you've had just about the shittiest day for a long time. You decide to cheer up by playing a couple of LoL games. Seeing the pattern here? Remember that you're a positive guy, but enough is enough. Your bot feeds and your mid is afk, and you feel like either jumping from the balcony or raging at them.

Now I'm not saying that there's this kind of guy in every game, but have you ever imagined if someone did just have one of those kind of days? You'd feel sorry for them. And no, I'm not denying the existence of trolls, just trying to understand those poor sods who just want to relax after a disastorous day.

But back to the point I had in the beginning (I tend to ramble on and on, my bad) it's like you'd put an anger management class together, they would rage for a while but calm down as they would see that it doesn't work, since everyone is just as angry as you are. And the cookie baking club (non-toxic players) would propably start throwing dough at each other.

I hope you get my point here, people tend to take on roles in larger groups, even if they usually don't act the role they usually do. There's always "the good, the bad and the ugly" one.

TL;DR: there are, and always will be A-holes :(

I apologize if I've made any mistakes writing this, I'm not a native english speaker.