How do people still seriously get annoyed by voice chat spammers and "toxic" players?

[not a skinwalker]

I'm surprised people still get annoyed at people who use voice chat to spam and spout memes and other verbal garbage just for laughs, or to relieve their angry "toxic" behaviours, in casual mode.
How does the word "toxic" still exist in this game? Why do players take this game and its community so seriously?
Frankly it makes me laugh at both the people getting mad because they're so reactive and stern, and the people spamming stuff because of the usually arbitrary and, often times, obscene material they spew.

Last but not least: How do so many people still not know that there exists a mute button in this game?
Voice chat spammer + Mute button = Problem solved.
Toxic player + Mute button = Problem solved.
Anything annoying coming from the players that doesn't have to do with the gameplay itself + Mute button = Problem solved.

It's simple, people.

[not a skinwalker]

Coyote の投稿を引用：

Buz Ligtear の投稿を引用：

Or that preacher guy too

Don’t forget those Boomer’s on their Harley Davidson that has a stereo system blasting Tom Petty while constantly reviving the engine. 🤣

Have yet to see this, I'm greatly interested.

[not a skinwalker]

Rawhide の投稿を引用：

Hyer Womba の投稿を引用：

i support voice chat spam as long as the music is good

♥♥♥♥♥♥ still be pointing their phone at their laptop mic in 2020, not taking advantage of tf2's improved codec

Nothing can beat the good old fashioned phone blasting through the game mic. :)

[Coyote]

poop time の投稿を引用：

Coyote の投稿を引用：

Don’t forget those Boomer’s on their Harley Davidson that has a stereo system blasting Tom Petty while constantly reviving the engine. 🤣

Have yet to see this, I'm greatly interested.

Really? I see them in any big city. They have one of those country cruiser motorcycles and they typically play Bob Seger Night Moves or Tom Petty Free falling or some Rolling Stones. I don't consider it crap music but any music people play loudly in public to get attention annoys me.

[not a skinwalker]

Coyote の投稿を引用：

poop time の投稿を引用：

Have yet to see this, I'm greatly interested.

Really? I see them in any big city. They have one of those country cruiser motorcycles and they typically play Bob Seger Night Moves or Tom Petty Free falling or some Rolling Stones. I don't consider it crap music but any music people play loudly in public to get attention annoys me.

I mean in-game. I have to hear this type of voice chat spam in game, with a motorcycle revving and some boomer music playing.
Of course I've seen those motorcycle boomers irl though, they're pretty neat actually.

[Coyote]

poop time の投稿を引用：

Coyote の投稿を引用：

Really? I see them in any big city. They have one of those country cruiser motorcycles and they typically play Bob Seger Night Moves or Tom Petty Free falling or some Rolling Stones. I don't consider it crap music but any music people play loudly in public to get attention annoys me.

I mean in-game. I have to hear this type of voice chat spam in game, with a motorcycle revving and some boomer music playing.
Of course I've seen those motorcycle boomers irl though, they're pretty neat actually.

Ooh! No I didn’t mean they do that in game. I was referring to a previous post I made that people who play music publicly typically have the worst taste in music such as: Boomers w/ motorcycles, White kids in Honda Civics and Black kids with their phones on the bus.

[not a skinwalker]

Coyote の投稿を引用：

poop time の投稿を引用：

I mean in-game. I have to hear this type of voice chat spam in game, with a motorcycle revving and some boomer music playing.
Of course I've seen those motorcycle boomers irl though, they're pretty neat actually.

Ooh! No I didn’t mean they do that in game. I was referring to a previous post I made that people who play music publicly typically have the worst taste in music such as: Boomers w/ motorcycles, White kids in Honda Civics and Black kids with their phones on the bus.

Their taste in music may be outdated or lame, but motorcycle boomers tend to be pretty chill.
Still have yet to see one in mic chat, spamming their motorcycle revving.

[Heatmaker]

Nobody wants to listen to earrape of the soviet anthem, creeper aw man or crab rave for 2 hours straight. It's easier for everyone to press f1 than for everyone to stop playing just to find the mute button

[rad_knight]

poop time の投稿を引用：

rad_knight の投稿を引用：

I do. And so does anyone whos ever had one on their team.
That makes one of us. They might be out there, but in my nearly 1500 hours I’m yet to see a single mic spammer beyond the skill level of killing them selves with their own shotgun.

Don't know what servers you've been playing on, but I've seen some decent teammate chat spammers on pubs from time to time.

Virginia servers, I have nearly 1500 hours. I’ve seen 1. And he was only barely passable since he was engineer and his dispenser was in a not terrible spot.

More often than not in my expirience mic spammers are either “friendlies”, snipers, or come in sets of 2 where both play engi and put their teleporters right next to each other to farm points (seriously, screw you if you have ever done this)

[not a skinwalker]

rad_knight の投稿を引用：

poop time の投稿を引用：

Don't know what servers you've been playing on, but I've seen some decent teammate chat spammers on pubs from time to time.

Virginia servers, I have nearly 1500 hours. I’ve seen 1. And he was only barely passable since he was engineer and his dispenser was in a not terrible spot.

More often than not in my expirience mic spammers are either “friendlies”, snipers, or come in sets of 2 where both play engi and put their teleporters right next to each other to farm points (seriously, screw you if you have ever done this)

Lmao I don't play engie, but man, gotta admit that's annoying and definitely deserves a kick though.
Edit: That is certainly capable of stirring up some strong doses of salt, gotta give them that much.

[not a skinwalker]

Heatmaker の投稿を引用：

Nobody wants to listen to earrape of the soviet anthem, creeper aw man or crab rave for 2 hours straight. It's easier for everyone to press f1 than for everyone to stop playing just to find the mute button

Or you can teach people the magic of discovering the mute button and be even more helpful to your team by doing so.
Unless the voice chat spammer is idling or actually getting in the way of your aim, then it shouldn't be a problem big enough to deserve a kick. If they're actually playing the game and helping their team by removing enemy mercs, then ignore their hollering voice by muting them.
And before you say it, claiming that the voice chat spammer is getting in the way of your aim by using their voice to distract you is not a proper reason. They're not the Dragonborn that fling you around with a Thu'um.

Be the bigger kid and mute them, and teach your team to do the same.

Edit: tl;dr Teach a man to fish... you get the rest.

[Heatmaker]

gommunism :DDD の投稿を引用：

Heatmaker の投稿を引用：

Nobody wants to listen to earrape of the soviet anthem, creeper aw man or crab rave for 2 hours straight. It's easier for everyone to press f1 than for everyone to stop playing just to find the mute button

Or you can teach people the magic of discovering the mute button and be even more helpful to your team by doing so.
Unless the voice chat spammer is idling or actually getting in the way of your aim, then it shouldn't be a problem big enough to deserve a kick. If they're actually playing the game and helping their team by removing enemy mercs, then ignore their hollering voice by muting them.
And before you say it, claiming that the voice chat spammer is getting in the way of your aim by using their voice to distract you is not a proper reason. They're not the Dragonborn that fling you around with a Thu'um.

Be the bigger kid and mute them, and teach your team to do the same.

Edit: tl;dr Teach a man to fish... you get the rest.

But nobody is going to stop gameplay just to go to the mute button. And they do deserve to be kicked. Like I said before, nobody wants to hear a kid raging on their mic. Imagine thinking anyone would use the "messing up my aim with their voice" excuse, because you just tried to refute something nobody would ever say

To refute your TL;DR: See above. Just because you teach someone to fish, doesn't mean they're going to fish. It's the same with muting

[not a skinwalker]

Heatmaker の投稿を引用：

gommunism :DDD の投稿を引用：

Or you can teach people the magic of discovering the mute button and be even more helpful to your team by doing so.
Unless the voice chat spammer is idling or actually getting in the way of your aim, then it shouldn't be a problem big enough to deserve a kick. If they're actually playing the game and helping their team by removing enemy mercs, then ignore their hollering voice by muting them.
And before you say it, claiming that the voice chat spammer is getting in the way of your aim by using their voice to distract you is not a proper reason. They're not the Dragonborn that fling you around with a Thu'um.

Be the bigger kid and mute them, and teach your team to do the same.

Edit: tl;dr Teach a man to fish... you get the rest.

But nobody is going to stop gameplay just to go to the mute button. And they do deserve to be kicked. Like I said before, nobody wants to hear a kid raging on their mic. Imagine thinking anyone would use the "messing up my aim with their voice" excuse, because you just tried to refute something nobody would ever say

To refute your TL;DR: See above. Just because you teach someone to fish, doesn't mean they're going to fish. It's the same with muting

If they want to get rid of it the noise, they will by muting if they know how to mute. Who said they'd pause the game just to mute? You can do that when you die and are waiting to respawn.
What if the kid is a decent player, but rages into the mic from time to time because they're a kid?
You wouldn't want to kick a decent player.
Plus, what if the rest of the team wants for him to stay for some reason? Maybe he has friends on the same server that won't kick him. Then what? The answer: The mute button. You don't even have to rely on the rest of the team to make the noise go away.
And believe it or not, people have used that "messing up my aim with your voice" excuse before, somewhere earlier in this very thread already, I think. Maybe it was a bit different, but the gist was the same.

[MrScammerMan]

Having someone randomly come on the mic and blast your eardrums is only annoying for the 10 seconds before you remember the mute button exists

[Staffy]

Mute button exist of corse. But most spammers are too concetrated on what they say/spam to play atleast at decent level. So not only their focus is to annoy ppl (atleast that for most of them), but they also suck at the game.

[not a skinwalker]

MrScammerMan の投稿を引用：

Having someone randomly come on the mic and blast your eardrums is only annoying for the 10 seconds before you remember the mute button exists

Exactly.