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Boards Feedback, and What We've Gathered

ModWuks·5/21/2017, 11:59:48 PM·27 votes·2,972 views

We launched this sub-board a little under two weeks ago to open up a dialogue within the Boards community. Since then, we've received a tremendous amount of feedback covering various aspects of the Boards - over 700 messages worth. And even though we've mentioned our limitations with development, that didn't stop you from providing a lot of development ideas; but we got to see a lot of your passion and creativity come to life, and ultimately, we share a lot of your same sentiments. With all of this feedback, we've decided to aggregate the data to list out the various ideas we've received and to further those discussions without those points needing to be brought up repeatedly.

The following data does not represent the projects we're looking to move forward with, but rather just a list of the different points that we've received so far. We'll go through the list and have our own internal discussions, bring certain points up for discussion in the future, and look at feedback that's provided to us as it's posted in this sub-board. Thank you to everyone who has participated in our discussions.

Community

  • Let's Talk Boards on Boards Formatting, Syntax, Tips & Tricks, Etiquette
  • Identifying different types of harassment more proactively and dealing with cases more effectively
  • Disable ability to upvote posts on Boards Home
  • Boards Wishlist (Done!)
  • Identify other ways to streamline report communications
  • Workshop with moderators to ensure consistency across moderators
  • Develop a Riot feedback loop within Report a Bug
  • Clarify purpose of upvotes See this
  • Filter out Team Recruitment on Boards Home
  • More visibility on Boards changes and updates
  • Refine the different community creations sub-boards to clarify what should go where and to emphasize each of the crafts
  • Refine moderation policies behind or remove political threads in GD (In-Progress)
  • Separate sub-board for Streams/Videos
  • Discussion view vs Chronological View, and how they should be implemented on the Boards
  • New Player sub-board
  • Don't change GD culture
  • Separate Gameplay Balance with Advice

The Voting System (Mostly Development)

  • Hide upvotes/downvotes for first hour and replace with "?"
  • Show upvotes/downvotes on threads
  • No votes shown until you vote/post, not changeable once voted
  • Harsher stances on upvote manipulation
  • Disable voting
  • Visibility determined by thread activity, not upvotes
  • Disable voting outside of threads

Development

  • More stickers
  • Different Boards Themes other than default
  • Reporting content on mobile
  • Red Tracker Filter
  • Community Creations as Boards Header, rotating
  • Integrated lock icon for locked threads
  • More advanced reporting functionalities
  • Integrated player-to-player communication platform
  • Floating Riot Bar at top as scroll with auto-refresh notifications
  • BB code
  • Autoquote feature on reply
  • Spoiler/Hide functionality
  • Better way to make tables

51 Comments

DrCyanide5/22/2017, 1:14:04 AM35 votes

No votes shown until you vote/post, not changeable

NO! No no no! No! Not being able to change your vote was one of the worst aspects of the old forums!

  1. If you vote based on your first impression, but then read something that changes your mind you should be able to rescind your vote.
  2. Misclicks (particularly on mobile) can't be corrected. Sorry, your great post just got a down vote and I can't undo that.
Deep Terror Nami5/22/2017, 12:24:05 AM20 votes

More stickers should be top priority!

https://i.gyazo.com/40810b6b9479329987df48b1b7231afb.png

Mira Arya Enthe5/22/2017, 12:24:25 PM9 votes

Visibility determined by thread activity, not upvotes Hide upvotes/downvotes for first hour and replace with "?" No votes shown until you vote/post

My life is complete. Thank you. Finally the boards will be about discussion, not farming upvotes or shutting dowm viewpoints by a select mob deciding nobody deserves to have a certain PoV.

SnakDatSmilesBak5/22/2017, 1:39:08 AM6 votes

Hi, I'd like to suggest a dm (direct message) system so I can slide into more dm's. Seriously though a dm system would be nice so boards members can communicate better without 3rd party apps.

Pater Gascoigne5/22/2017, 11:24:48 AM6 votes

Voting systems are not a healthy system for a discussion forum. You will get the people that spam threads just to farm upvotes. But even worse, it discourages discussing with others. It's easier to downvote someone rather than telling that person what you disagree with. Some people might also not want to express an unpopular opinion since they will get downvoted into invisibility.

Skins Project5/22/2017, 1:01:04 PM6 votes

Visibility determined by thread activity, not upvotes

I feel M&G should be excluded from this...

Because the point of M&G isn't about activity.. I.E. LF replying to comments doesn't make the meme better.

Other then that it seems like great improvements are headed towards my beloved boards <3

(Wuuuuuuuuuuks what was the wuks insidenttttt tellllllll me alreadyyyyyyy!)

Aeszarck5/22/2017, 12:53:36 AM3 votes

I would also like to request a Search User Profile in the Development section. It can sometimes be really hard to find a user through Search.

Other than that, good list! I'm glad you're dedicated toward improving the Boards!

Dokkaebi5/23/2017, 10:06:37 PM2 votes

Just get rid of downvoting. All it causes is harm. Most other websites have moved on and taken the 'upvote or don't upvote' system and it works a lot better.

ModEvangele6/6/2017, 4:02:32 AM2 votes

Nami Praise be unto Wuks.

Sraeg20135/22/2017, 6:07:13 PM2 votes

How about a STRICT set of rules?

I've had enough of dealing with those bullshit guidelines everybody, especially moderators interpret their own way. I've had countless of my comments removed, warnings and suspension received solely, because "guidelines" are a mess.

Truth be told in all my years dealing with the internet and writing on various forums in the past decade, I haven't received even 3 warnings total. Not until I started writing on LoL Boards where I get at least 1 removed post a month.

What was the difference? On those other forums all rules were rules. Plain and simple with transparent punishment systems, not based on fee-fees of some random snowflakes.

ModAttysu The Poro6/6/2017, 4:13:35 AM2 votes

Stickers and customizable board themes are the ones I am most excited for tbh, good work!

Jesus our Exodus9/26/2017, 7:16:14 AM1 votes

Yo, I was wondering if you could add "Bump button" to the idea list. It will only affect the recent tab, and it will contribute to the OP of a thread getting visibility on their thread when they are online to discuss it. Also, if they feel like their topic isn't finished or needs to stay alive for some reason, they should be allowed to do so, in the spirit of open debate.

Some threads, no matter how good or still relevant they are, will just fall down on the list and never get read, because they didn't make it to the hot tab when they were being discussed.

Breaku5/22/2017, 11:28:30 AM1 votes

Hide upvotes/downvotes for first hour and replace with "?" No votes shown until you vote/post, not changeable once voted

But I pick which threads to read based on the votes it has?

Lord Desert5/22/2017, 1:05:00 PM1 votes

We might see a drop in activity regarding views if we take away focal points (aka. the total vote count). We do want people to be interested and encuraged to look at threads without biasing the reader to much. Disabling the voting outside of threads is fantastic to get a reader to actually read the thread and then vote if they want to without losing the focal point.

But votes, even if up and downvotes are shown, bias the reader alot. Its not possible to not bias the reader and have focal points at the same time. (showing up and downvotes helps to identify controversal topics) Icons on the other hand (like the "lock" newly intorduced here) bias alot less, but are extremely good focal points! For new threads (1/2 - 1 hour) a "new" icon could replace the vote number (The total amount of votes should still be shown if you read the thread). After this time the icon switches to ether a red "↓" for -5 and lower, a white " - " for -4 to +4, or a green "↑" for +5 and above. This indication should last ~1day and then switch back to total votes + up and downvotes. ("new" and arrows could exist at the same time too)

All in all: We preserve the focal points but dont show the votes and dont bias the reader at first, later the important range from -4 to +4 is still unbiased and lastly the votes are shown. This should maximize the number of views without biasing the reader as much.

Extras: We could toy with some more icons like a "technical" icon, a "fun" icon or a "discussion" icon which the poster can put onto his thread (or, to protect from abuse, mods could grant them, if asked for).

Wuks, my dear friend, my best buddy, how, and is it possible for me, to do what you have done in this post!? This is exactly what I have been dreaming about! Please tell me its possible!

OceanicEyes5/22/2017, 10:30:32 PM1 votes

Thoughts on hiding the name of the OP until you click the thread? Can't recall where I first saw the idea, but thought that was an interesting idea to discuss. On one hand it potentially limits bias based on the OP, on the other hand it sounds like it might just make it less convenient to find threads.

Of course this assumes that there is an author bias with threads, which is debatable.

Lord Desert5/30/2017, 6:45:32 PM1 votes

Wuks, oh glorious, oh almighty, oh powerfull Wuks, would you, the master of the masters, the forger of worlds, the annhilator of Doom, grant this unimportant little shrimp the knowledge of creating what you have done in this thread? It may not be much but you shall be recieve my everlasting gratefullness!

ModBoggyBuntu6/6/2017, 4:04:54 AM1 votes

Seems like some fine points to discuss. Hopefully we'll get to see results soon!