The forum rules are contradictory

BestPudgeNA·10/9/2019, 5:44:34 PM·1 votes·3,173 views

Do not post content intended to insult, belittle, disrespect, or intentionally offend other community members as individuals or as groups. Posting repetitive non-constructive or **low-effort content. **

Can someone explain how calling someones content "low-effort" isn't insulting? Are you really not insulted when someone calls you "lazy" or says you put "lower effort" into your job?

5 Comments

Modi10/9/2019, 6:37:23 PM9 votes

Low effort is mostly objective. Examples:

  • Posting the same thing that has been posted over, and over, and over again.
  • Posting a single sentence that does not promote conversation.
  • Posting a rant, with no intent to start a conversation.
ModThe Djinn10/9/2019, 7:07:19 PM5 votes

{quoted}Can someone explain how calling someones content "low-effort" isn't insulting?

To some people it may be. Ultimately, however, this is where moderator discretion comes in -- not everything someone considers insulting will be removed, for example. We've had people insulted by being called a "Yasuo main" before, but if the context of that isn't used in an insulting or condescending fashion than it isn't really an insult and shouldn't be removed.

In this case, some posts are low-effort posts, even if one or two individuals actually do put a lot of effort into threads like this imaginary one:

Title: Yasuo OP. Nerf Now.

Thread Contents: See Title.

And yes, that's an extreme example, but still. When one of the most common past complaints we've gotten about threads on boards like Gameplay is that they occupy space with complaints but no discussion or analysis, we feel it's necessary to help lessen those concerns by handling threads we feel don't offer enough room for meaningful conversation.

GatekeeperTDS10/9/2019, 9:05:21 PM4 votes

Perhaps you'd have better luck asking "Why was my post considered low-effort?" than attacking the boards rules. Those aren't up for debate.

G0blinSlay3r10/10/2019, 8:28:56 AM1 votes

The rules are written grey. So grey to depends what you say.