Questions to think about

These are mostly for people to consider and think about, as much as I'd love to see discussion on them I doubt it will be constructive because people refuse to admit the correct answers to these questions:

• Why is the quality of discussion and argument on reddit generally considered to be higher than on the League boards?
• Why do more Rioters tend to go to Reddit than the League boards?
• Did the moderators on the League boards ever make a successful effort to remove spam and low effort posts on important boards such as gameplay?
• Did the moderators here hold personal grudges against users and allow that to impact their considering of those users suggestions/complaints?
• Did Riot ever attempt to enforce standards on the moderators?
• Did Riot ever set rules as to removal of low effort content on the boards, or did Riot just move to Reddit when the mods there proved better?
• Did the moderators here maintain a moderation "staff" of adequate size for the size of the boards?
• Did the moderators here bring on new moderators frequently enough to keep a team of adequate size?
• Were changes "talked about" or "being considered" for too long before an inevitable action was taken?
• How much time did the moderators spend in boards such as gameplay reading posts and replying to them?
• Was the boards better under the old program where moderators were "per board" or "specialized mods" (ex: arbiters)?
• Is it worth letting users remain who prove to have no interest in discussion and only want to rant/spew nonsense in their posts?

The answers to these should be glaringly obvious to anyone who actually takes the time to think about these. They show that there was systemic problems both in Riot's handling of the moderators, Riot's handling of the boards, and the moderators themselves in how they handled the program. Everyone needs to take the blame for this, including the community, who honestly needed to utilize voting more appropriately to downvote posts like this so they weren't visible on boards "hot" or "home" pages.

But no, we are now losing the boards, and every single person here is to blame for it.

So mods: don't you dare go on saying "we did what we can". Sure, people can't criticize you, but going down like this just makes it look to everyone who sees through it like you're still refusing to accept any responsibility here. Never once have we gotten an apology that the voting issue took over a year to fix. Never once have we gotten an apology for now at least four moderators who have been shown to hold personal grudges against users and insulting them, and this affecting moderation. Never once have you taken any interest in feedback/criticism that could've helped prevent this. We can't change it now, but please, own up to it and stop this charade. It's been coming for months likely - so recent changes couldn't have fixed it - but this is still partially your fault.

And community: Get over yourselves. Your posts are by and large bullshit that doesn't deserve reading by a salamander, much less a human, and much less a Rioter. Get off your high horse of "I'm important and nobody else is" and listen when people tell you you're wrong or that there is other data/information at play. Ultimately, the community is the only one with the full power to have prevented this - but you decided to create an echo chamber to make you feel special instead of actually discussing here. Then you get all "surprised pikachu" when they remove it because it's a pile of useless garbage.

To the C+C community (and M+G and roleplay to an extent): You deserve an apology from the moderators and the community and Riot itself. You behaved and created great content and are now suffering because of the inability of the community to control itself in other areas of the boards. You'll never get an apology from the moderators for their lack of action, but you deserve one.