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The boards reminds me of that one episode of community

IRight ArmI·7/19/2018, 4:04:10 PM·2 votes·1,747 views

These boards remind me of that one episode from the show community. Where this app comes out where people give others smiles up to 5 and then some elite group of people is formed who have 5 smiles and they can control who gets smiles now (basically whatever they don't like gets smiles taken away) and if you have 4 or less smiles you're a nobody and outcast.

How is this similar to the boards? There's an elite (very large) group of people I'll call the teachers pets who are honor 5 controlling the boards down voting whatever triggers them, whatever they don't like, and whatever doesn't fit their perception of what they believe in. This isn't some organized physical group it's a psychological community built probably by Riot to control and possibly oppress the boards. You will get down voted for anything these people just have to not like it and they'll come into your thread in numbers and harass you and make sure your thread never sees the light of day.

If any of you have seen that episode then you'll know what I'm talking about.

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ModThe Djinn7/19/2018, 4:15:21 PM4 votes

[{quoted}](name=IRight ArmI,realm=NA,application-id=6heBIhQc,discussion-id=1VpIEyKM,comment-id=,timestamp=2018-07-19T16:04:10.757+0000)How is this similar to the boards? There's an elite [very large] group of people I'll call the teachers pets who are honor 5 controlling the boards down voting whatever triggers them, whatever they don't like, and whatever doesn't fit their perception of what they believe in.

As someone who is pretty up-to-date on board behavioral trends, this is not a thing exclusive to "an elite group of teacher's pets." We see mass downvoting on Pro-Riot threads and Anti-Riot threads alike, based on who is online, what the topic is, and what mood people are in. It's more a feature of the human tendency to hop on bandwagons and move with the group than it is a side effect of any specific group of like-minded individuals, and what sorts of threads get what response really does vary by day, time of day, and board it is posted on.

There also definitely isn't some Riot-built group psychological experiment meant to control and/or oppress the boards (really -- I promise), and the more comments a thread gets, the more likely it is to be highly visited rather than the opposite.

That said, feel free to believe what you want. :)

IRight ArmI7/19/2018, 4:09:08 PM2 votes

This is just a general observation. Outliers of course always exist. There are threads that deserve their up votes and down votes.

IRight ArmI7/19/2018, 4:14:42 PM2 votes

Change my mind. Go ahead.

Warlord Rhinark7/19/2018, 5:08:55 PM1 votes

Shit I can't even downvote this because I'd just prove his point.

How do I win in this situation?