To be honest, every single game community out there is going to have a lot of horribly rude people. Competitive team based games like league of legends or DOTA even more so. You have to learn to brush it off or ignore it entirely. People generally don't seem to care about manners when there are no consequences.

Ignore/block them

I usually just fight fire with fire. Don't let them ruin your gaming exp. Or you could just take the high road and /ignore the player

Depends on what kind of game you're playing. Some genres are better known for horrible people than others. In MMOs, I tend to ignore it, flag it if they won't shut the hell up, and focus on playing with people I enjoy talking to. In MOBAs... to be honest, I don't play many of them because I hate the community attitudes so so so SO much. It sucks that this *kitten* curtails my favorite hobby, but there it is. If I can't enjoy myself, there's no point in playing.

MOBAs are the only games I've ever had that problem with, though. I choose my FPS titles based first on the game and second on the community. There are some great options out there!

Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot that can be done about it. If you consistently play at a specific time; then you might find a few individuals that you can form a group with.
I'm usually in SWTOR and I still play solo as much as I can. When I've been in groups no one has really talked much. However, if you don't know what you are doing they are not likely to lend a hand; they just kick you from the group. I usually try to save group quests and if I find a group i can play well with I try and go through the other quests as well with them. Usually, most of the group will keep going until all of them are done.

I also usually /ignore in MMOs. This is a bit tougher when I play fighting games. In general, I ban myself from the headset so I either can't hear them, or just can't reply. The best response is to ignore and then win.

I play Lotro mostly, and often follow world chat but if there are jerks on there I use /ignore. I'm usually on an RP server so the is little offensive stuff, though we did have some griefers and at first the DMs were very slow about reacting, last time they were quicker.

It annoys me that there are some ppeople who want to ruin other people's fun. I think they are mainly teenage boys.

I hate really nasty trolls. I just can't deal with them, not because of what they say but because their intention to hurt me or others just totally ruins a game for me. If I didn't love highly competitive games it wouldn't be an issue.

What I tend towards nowadays is playing with people I know personally or have past good experiences with. If you're overtly friendly online its easy to build up a network of people who have a similar disposition to you. Then, if someone is being a jerk, players are more likely to pull together and kick, or simply ignore, some idiot who is trying to ruin everyone's fun.

Mute or block the person. I try not to feed their need for attention.

I don't get hurt by them, but I'll report if they're totally obnoxious and rude and clogging up the rest of what I should hear/read! GTAV can be brutal

I currently play League of Legends and there is a mute button for the players so you can just stop seeing whatever they type, although when they are on your team this isnt super helpful in regarding to play incase they say something useful to xD

in destiny i never turn on my mic to strangers or join group voice chats. people there are pretty chilled out compared to other games i've played. just do your thing and mute them so they can scream into the void instead of your ear.

I'm the same. I struggle with social anxiety, even online, so I don't play many social games. Pretty much just WoW.

How I deal with those players depends on in what way they're being rude. I had a person pretty much stalking me ingame just to keep telling me that my gear sucked, I should get this and that, yadda yadda, but not in a nice and helpful way. I play for the story and love questing, not a big fan of raids, dungeons, etc., so I don't collect gear. They wouldn't accept that, so I just ignored them.

But another time, a group of higher level chars kept camping by a mob that needed to be killed for a quest and they'd kill it every time, so none of us low levels could finish our quests. Those are the situations where I have no problem being the party pooper and reporting them to a DM.

I have social anxiety so i have my setting set so only friends and friends of friends can deal with me. Usually in game i just report them for being idiots. This is also why I can't do much in destiny as LFGs scare the hell out of me.

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I had tons of friends on WoW ages ago because I never had to voice chat with them.

Oh god, voice chat! *breathes into paperbag* When I was new to GTA Online, I joined this session with strangers and suddenly they started talking and I just dropped the gamepad and was like O.O Luckily they were some Spanish people and just talking amongst themselves, not expecting me to pitch in.