Just to make it clear, i think the phreak comment was stupid with how you should type something out instead of pinging.
But seriously, pinging in the game has gotten so unhelpful to the point that a lot of people straight up recommend muting everyone at the start of the game, i feel like spam pinging is used way more as a way of being toxic rather than communicating something, im not even sure what point requires pinging 5 or more times rather than 3. Hell, if people stop using pings in a malicious way maybe less people will mute all or recommend muting all at the start of every game.
All the most toxic twitter and reddit users coming forward to say they hate the update kinda feels more like it justifies how good the update is rather than bad aswell.
You see JG ganking and spam ping so the player realizes and backs away.
The player ganks people to engage or follow up so they ping on my way multiple times so they don’t back off.
Pinging for Dragon on Baron.
MIA.
There many situations, and all those situations require alot of pings. People might have low sound, or might not be paying full attention, or are too focused on something else like CSing etc. Most people probably won’t register your pings until the 3rd one.
Not to mention pings are sometimes “recommendations or situational” so you might ping Dragon one or twice but back off. Meanwhile pinging it 5-6 times means go fucking do it now.