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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by darklajid on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:23PM (#11879707)
No, I think they are saying that you are asked to share your handle and new guys tend to hand over their 'real' one. While you might just as well create a 'I apply at Riot' one earlier. Or (no idea about that) claim that you don't have one perhaps?
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by lucasmullens on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:37PM (#11879814)
I feel like if you told them you don't have an account or have a level 1 account, they would be far less likely to hire you.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by CocaKoala on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:10PM (#11880051)
So you have a primary account that you play on, then apply to riot, and then create a new account that Riot doesn't know about where you call your jungler cancerous garbage. Easy peasy.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by rcthompson on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:07PM (#11880866)
Unless you're playing your alternate account via Tor or a VPN or something, Riot can presumably notice that both accounts are used from the same IP and put the pieces together. And that would be a long way to go to hide your behavior.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by hatsunearu on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:20PM (#11880571)
This is terrible.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by umanwizard on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:20PM (#11880939)
Why? Anecdotally I know several people who got hired at Facebook without having an active Facebook account.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by pandaman on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:33PM (#11881716)
Riot does seem to require playing LoL[1]. Not sure how is Facebook relevant here.

[1]A random job posting from Riot http://www.riotgames.com/careers/10838

"While our engineers come in all shapes and sizes and work with many technologies, we expect every engineer at Riot to be:

Player-focused: you’re a gamer whose passion for games (especially League of Legends)"

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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by umanwizard on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:31AM (#11886656)
Thanks for the citation! Wish I hadn't been downvoted for asking an honest question, but this clears things up.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by pandaman on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:57AM (#11886707)
I have not downvoted you but I imagine many people here do not like non sequitur arguments.
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by umanwizard on Sunday June 12, 2016 @01:11PM (#11889084)
It's not a non sequitur at all. Just pointing out that it's not unreasonable to imagine someone working somewhere without being a user of that company's product.
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