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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by gozur88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:53PM (#11881594)
I still don't get it. Why would you buy an account with an MMR that virtually guaranteed you'd lose nearly every game? Are masochists more numerous than I'd imagined?
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Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em... by yarou on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:31PM (#11881709)
I imagine it's a form of Dunning-Kruger: account buyers feel that they are more skilled than the rating they received after calibration.

There are also those who legitimately enjoy griefing dota: their account is probably so deep into low priority stacks that it is effectively banned. Or perhaps they are shadow banned into the bot/multi box pool. So they buy a new account to try and ruin games at high MMR.

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