Riot PLEASE answer to the controversy or the boards mainpage will be unusable forever

SaltyToplaneGoat·9/6/2018, 8:52:54 PM·1 votes·1,835 views

I counted, and there is literally over a 100 threards on the hot-frontpage when you scroll down, with one exception that's around #80 or #90 and that's an image of a pizza shaped like a pineapple titled "where is your god now". Safe for this rather dadaistic exception, the entire frontpage has been completly clogged FOR DAYS NOW and to be honest it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

I mean, yeah, obviously it won't slow down because people are legit mad and want answers, and that's their good right, but this got to end at some point. However, the ball is now in your field: You got two options now:

a) delete every single thread to commit full PR-Seppuku

or

b) finally give an answer that at least some of the crowd can turn their attention back to others things that this board was actually made for.

Because if you do neither of these things, you can be sure that every player who will get on the boards will first see a 100+ threads about how Riot as a company is ok with an employee hating men, being sexist and racist and whatever and a lot of other things that would usually be filed under "PR-Nightmare". Not to mention that the Overall-Frontpage is an important tool for the usage of these site - but if not even hotly discussed and upvoted lore threads WITH RED COMMENTS IN THEM make it even to the verymost bottom of that page... well, then you got a problem.

This whole mess is reaching day 5 soon, and at this point you can't seriously think that people will stop anytime soon. Just make a statement, anything - preferably an apology accompanied with "we fired everyone who was toxic - we need neither toxic players NOR toxic workers!" - and suddenly all this would evaporate into nothingness. This silence is doing you more harm than good, as with every day it appears that you actually support what this choleric lunatic of a employee spat out on twitter, inculding a barely veiled "kys" spat right at the community. How the hell can you let such a person be the representative of your entire community?

And he is now your prime representative, if you want it or not. Look at the boards, 100+ top hot threads all because of him and him alone. THIS is what your new public face looks like, and will look like for the next weeks, right until worlds hits. Don't really need to explain the damage if people watch worlds, get curious about the game, and THIS is the first thing they see on the official site. Not to mention that now suddenly "political protest" is now on the list of reasons people might not watch the event at all. This has never happened before, yet here we are.

So I just want the simple usability of the frontpage back, you need to stitch up one of the worst PR-disasters in videogame history. So for heaven's sake get working on that, you had several days by now!

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