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Boards upvote and downvote system + hot algorithm sucks

TeCoolMage·3/20/2018, 8:27:24 AM·3 votes·3,108 views

Make a post in off hours, get caught by people who lurk in new and see themselves as heroes/vigilantes anonymously downvoting posts that agree with current 'circlejerk' so they don't make it to hot (regardless of actual quality), make post too long/informative (so serious upvoters take a while to upvote or don't read at all, while trolls always downvote instantly)

These are all stupid things that don't relate to actual post quality that allow a small group of people to police what gets to the front page with certain exceptions.

agrees with average opinion and short? Average boards user upvotes. More of them than trolls -> hot agrees with average opinion and long? trolls downvote -> buried disagrees with average opinion? Average user downvotes but with certain boards users disagreeing can get upvotes, or it's not actually serious so instant upvote -> depends

21 Comments

ModThe Djinn3/20/2018, 12:55:02 PM3 votes

May I ask what your suggestion would be? We have considered removing downvotes or voting entirely before, and there are quite a few downsides to that, although I agree the voting system isn't a perfect solution either.

In my view the problem is how it is used. People tend to use it as "Agree/Disagree" rather than "Good Discussion/Unproductive Thread." If people started recognizing and upvoting good content even when they disagree with it I suspect it would be much less of an issue.

Fresh Untilted3/20/2018, 8:38:49 AM1 votes

It's been years since the movements to remove the upvote/downvote system was initiated. I don't think Riot cares enough.

DrTeath3/20/2018, 6:57:35 PM1 votes

Or, you know, bring back the old forums, because this reddit style crap is garbage.