Mods strike again. The simple expression "White Knight" apparently is not allowed.

Nea104·8/16/2019, 2:23:14 PM·8 votes·3,966 views

We've recently removed your post for violating the Golden Rule on the Boards: "Always be respectful to players, community members, moderators, and Rioters. Harassment and insults will not be tolerated".

Your removed content:

You're lvl 30 which means you haven't been playing after the level cap was raised. Your account almost looks as if it's a Riot employee account. Not to mention you have replied to every single thread about the Eternals.

He is one of the most suspicious White Knights on the Boards, actually. Good thing his arguments are always biased and tendentious beyond every reasonable distorted perspective one can legitimally have.

No name-shaming, no bad words, just a polite opinion (answering to another previous comment) on how someone is actually very suspiciously as a so-called "White Knight", which doesn't sound to me as an offence whatsoever.

Meanhile, you can swear, curse and trash talk on the Boards (eg.: circlej-rk, f-ck, idi-ts...). And nothing happens.

This is so depressing, and as I've already said, when a game goes downhill, the other services related to it (like these Boards) do the same too.

8 Comments

ModThe Djinn8/16/2019, 2:45:46 PM11 votes

Putting aside the fact that "white knight" is often used/intended as an insult, you definitely missed the impolite and insulting sentence you wrote right below that comment:

Good thing his arguments are always biased and tendentious beyond every reasonable distorted perspective one can legitimately have.

There are better ways to express your disagreement than saying "you are biased beyond every reasonable distorted perspective one can legitimately have."

DuskDaUmbreon8/16/2019, 3:13:07 PM8 votes

OOookay. Let's break this down bit by bit.

No name-shaming,

Calling someone a white knight is not name-shaming, correct. However, that's about as relevant to this as "Don't spread malware".

no bad words

Boards don't care about bad words unless you break the zero-tolerance filter. People here don't care about swearing. Nobody outside of fucking Roblox or grandparents gives a flying fuck about swearing.

just a polite opinion (answering to another previous comment) on how someone is actually very suspiciously as a so-called "White Knight", which doesn't sound to me as an offence whatsoever.

Calling someone a white knight is literally an insult. It's also incredibly derailing to any topic at hand, because you turn it from an actual argument into a fucking ad hominem.

Meanhile, you can swear, curse

Exactly. See statement number 1.

and trash talk on the Boards

Nope. You cannot trash-talk someone. Not directly. I can say "Every tristana I've ever had on my team recently escaped from the zoo", or even "Jesus fucking christ my last tristana was absolutely fucking useless". But if I say "DawnTheAbsol is terrible at the game and should uninstall because he's garbage", if that wasn't my alt that'd be punished. That's trash talking.

(eg.: circlej-rk,

Circle-jerk is not trash talking. It's related to a sexual act, but in 99% of instances it's used now, it's just pointing out how you're metaphorically carrying out that act.

f-ck,

#Literally nobody cares if you say fuck. It's the internet. It's not a 12 year old's Minecraft server. It's a fucking forum for a Teen-rated game. There are literally champions that swear in-game, why would the mods care if you swear here? Why would anyone care if you swear here?

idi-ts...). And nothing happens.

See statement number 5. "Tristana mains are idiots" is fine. "DawnTheAbsol is an idiot" is not. "Stop being an idiot, this is the actual thing" is probably fine, although that'd probably depend on other factors.

This is so depressing

It's depressing because you can't derail a conversation and try to discredit someone's argument on the sheer basis that they agree with the person you're attacking?

and as I've already said, when a game goes downhill

League going downhill or dying OMEGALUL. Were you one of the people saying Fortnite would kill League? Or PUBG would kill it? Or some other fad that's already died out would kill it?

the other services related to it (like these Boards) do the same too.

It's going downhill because you can't derail a conversation and try to discredit someone's argument on the sheer basis that they agree with the person you're attacking?

ModUlanopo8/16/2019, 10:03:57 PM8 votes

WE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINION STOP DEELETING OUR POSTS CAUSE OF A FEW '' INSULTS'' WHEN YOU COULD REMOVE ONLY THE ''SAID INSULTS'' IN IT JUST LIKE YOU REMOVE NAMES IN THEM!!!!

I stopped editing posts because of the high percentage of people who complained it was unfair to do so because it amounted to a "public shaming" or it "altered the meaning of the post." Turns out, what people really want is to not get moderated at all. Go figure.

Hammermancer8/16/2019, 2:36:32 PM4 votes

You can only disagree with people about game balance unless of course you share riot game's exact views on all political discourse, at which point you can go on extremely offensive rants as long as your opinions coincide with the boards moderators. This includes insulting people, calling them names, and being vulgar if the boards mods personally agree with you.

They're objectively biased

DARCKD00M8/16/2019, 5:36:12 PM2 votes

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