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Let's Talk Boards - Introduction

ModWuks·5/10/2017, 7:50:22 PM·61 votes·11,659 views

Hey, you! Thanks for taking the time to pop in. I'm Wuks, and as you can tell by my blue name, I'm a Senior Arbiter, one of the volunteer roles here on the Boards. I've created this post as the first in a series of posts to get players more acquainted with the workings of the Boards, from how to best utilize the Boards based on your interests, to the latest improvements, to things like Boards moderation. While future posts will be a lot more detailed and focused around specific topics, this first post is meant to be just a quick introduction to this series, where we're at now, and an opportunity for y'all to get to know us. Let's get started!


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Now let's get into the main topic of the series: what we've done recently to improve Boards experience. Over the past few weeks, we've been working to roll out player-run Boards moderation within the Player Behavior & Moderation sub-board. With these changes, we've also adjusted a few of the ways we respond to actions that don't align with Boards Rules or Guidelines. This includes preferring to close threads that are posted in the wrong sub-board with a suggestion to re-post in the appropriate place, rather than deleting the post outright; and preferring to edit identifying names in "Name and Shame" posts rather than deleting the post outright. The way we respond to these violations are an extension of our goal of visible moderation. So far, we've gotten a lot of positive feedback, but we have also heard a few criticisms and have taken them to heart.

Given the feedback we've received with player moderation in PB&M, we'll be rolling out the same initiative within General Discussion. If this is something you're interested in and you meet the qualifications, we strongly encourage you to submit an application! We have a few more projects in the works, but we'd like to hear more from you!

In addition to changes in the way we moderate the Boards, you may have noticed another change. We've recently opened up this sub-board, Boards Community & Moderation, to understand how we can better engage the community. We'll be using this space to post about our events, our thoughts relating to the Boards, and things generally related to the Riot Games Volunteer Programs. If you have any feedback on what we could be doing differently, ideas on cool ways we can recognize and/or engage the community, questions for the Volunteers, or anything else related to the Boards, please drop us a message in the comments or in this sub-board; members of the Riot Games Volunteer Programs will be on hand to discuss their thoughts, visions, and experiences.

Thanks again for your time,

- Wuks,
Senior Arbiter

114 Comments

Tormentula5/10/2017, 10:13:12 PM28 votes

Is it me, or this forum post's page gorgeous?

Why can't the rest of boards.leagueoflegends look like this?

ShadowParker5/10/2017, 10:26:09 PM7 votes

Boards feedback:

On the red tracker, I love the background art and the idea behind it but it's really hard to see posts where the picture is. Making these posts more visible while retaining the picture would be sick.

If we could also get the option to go back to "Boards home" in the red tracker again, that'd be great.

Otherwise I love the background art.

One last thing: will boards ever leave beta?

Velzard of Koz5/10/2017, 10:34:09 PM7 votes

Thank goodness, with that system some M&G posts finally might not be deleted because of one mod not getting the joke or not reading the post at all but just title. Bless you.

Also: As topic of next posts, maybe explain text formatting. Quantum of people still don't know how to do magic like slash characters not disappearing, paragraph separation lines, small and big fonts. Many people make their text bigger when they just want to make hashtag as they don't know how to escape the hastag. And there might be some secrets even I don't yet know. Could be very interesting topic in my opinion.

DrCyanide5/10/2017, 11:09:54 PM4 votes

Is there a plan to add a Lock Icon that looks more like it belongs on the boards (possibly one from the client)? The last two Lock Icons I saw a) looked different from one another and b) looked like someone just stuck an emoji in front of their post.

Kei1435/10/2017, 11:56:04 PM3 votes

ohh .. the sidebar has been split between game & community.

Kinky, and I like it.

Shouldn't Dev Corner belong in the game section though?

Bunnymap5/10/2017, 10:20:41 PM3 votes

This post background is pure magic. Please, we need to be able to do this ourselves. At least the fancy header/title

Pommel Knight5/10/2017, 9:55:43 PM2 votes

I know you gave graves his cigar back, but making Sona smoke too. Damn you're on a nicotine high Riot.

Also wtf is happening to Zed?! He has lighting roses growing out of his eyes?

AMYS GRAVE5/10/2017, 10:13:03 PM1 votes

preferring to edit identifying names in "Name and Shame" posts rather than deleting the post outright.

How do you plan to handle names which are identified in images instead of text?

Kürama5/11/2017, 12:28:35 AM1 votes

Thanks again for your time,

Wuks, Senpai

Fixed.

Mordepool5/11/2017, 12:45:30 AM1 votes

What exactly are you asking people to volunteer for. I ask because I feel I would like to help out seeing as I'm on the Boards 6/7 days of the week. But I'm limited to Mobile due to the nature of my work

MasterOfMetaI5/11/2017, 1:05:11 AM1 votes

will you guys ever add anymore emoticons (like the slayer - zombie ones)?

BLACK REALM GOD5/11/2017, 2:40:05 AM1 votes

this seems like a nice feature. i like helping and sharing my opinions and such about how the boards should be changed for the better, but im sick of being called a bronze just because i dont like ranked or trying to make connections over a video game and having my opinion automatically disregarded for that one reason. so i wont be applying to any form of volunteer work until rank isnt the only value used to determine the value of a players criticism or insight. it just seems like a waste of time.

hopefully the new moderation is regulated to prevent certain forms of harassment that just ultimately i see no way of combating when not being particular about job assignment. i've been a moderator on a few forums and websites myself and experienced the trouble first hand that can be caused by arrogant moderators and title/badge wearers.

anyway all in all a well written post. looking forward to see the outcome.