@Riot special privileges and exceptions from board rules for moderators?

Fegone·3/26/2018, 5:31:11 PM·2 votes·1,302 views

It was brought to my attention by Riot, that calling someone naive on the boards, is harassment. (And apparently also calling someone a Riot Fanboi, but whatever..)

In ONE of my comments I called a certain moderator, who got downvoted in every single posting he made on 2 threads, 'naive', because that's the only word applicable in that given situation, imo. Anyways, I get that it's Riot's rules, and I shouldn't use that word. Fine. BUT!! At the same time, this moderator calls other people naive ON THE SAME THREAD and his posting doesn't get removed? What kind of rule set is this, Riot? You delete one comment I write because I call him naive, but he can call other people who disagree with his opinion, naive?

Are you kidding me Riot?

10 Comments

ModThe Djinn3/26/2018, 5:38:40 PM9 votes

Hey there, Fegone.

I took a look at the removal in question.

In general, calling someone naive isn't great, but it's not something that's usually a super big deal. What made it a big deal in this situation is that it was part of a pattern of five comments you made directed at belittling the opinion of the individual in question, which isn't okay, moderator or not. By itself that comment might not have been removed but, when combined with the following (additional comments of yours removed from the same thread), it shows a clear intent with your behavior to antagonize this individual. For that reason it was included in the removal.

Ok just stop. Every single one of your comments got downvoted into oblivion. They don't even show up by default any more. Just stop it Riot Fanboi.... we get it.

Just drop this subject, you obviously are not qualified to 'moderate' threads about this particular skin, as your Riot Fanboi-ism stands in the way of producing objective comments.

BWahahahaha god you're so naive. As if you knew what does and doesn't work in gameplay. Please tell me more about your experience as a game designer, developer, or whatever else you think you know so much about. Come on man, the downvotes are speaking for itself.

Cos he is a freaking Riot Fanboi. The like of "Make League Great Again" - if you know what I mean.


To address the issue of mod favoritism -- we don't exempt moderators from the rules, and we review things brought to our attention to ensure that this happens. For openness, here's the moderator's comment:

Because fan-edits where they just draw on top of a skin never have to account for gameplay clarity, visuals from game height, how the skin looks in motion, or any things that actually matter in a skin.

Taking some fancy edits somebody adds to a still screenshot and saying "Oh wow, this just fixes everything. Why didn't you do this riot?" is naive.

While I agree that perhaps wording could be improved, the comment does give a good account of the multiple reasons that you can't simply push a concept into production. This is one of those cases where, while it isn't great to call someone naive, it's largely non-insulting (it's a "you probably failed to take this stuff into consideration" rather than "you don't know what you're talking about"), and not a huge deal.

rebelprincess013/26/2018, 5:33:43 PM1 votes

whomst'd've'ly'yaint'nt'ed'ies's'y'es he is the one removing comments

Fegone3/26/2018, 6:30:32 PM1 votes

Alright, if this is how you see things, then I will accept your standpoint. I won't agree with it, and I don't have to. I will also take note that his way of communication is acceptable and maybe write my comments in the future more like he does, as to not fall beyond the acceptable borderlines.