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Moderators should remove Gameplay threads that lack evidence

The Ecdysiast·7/3/2018, 8:40:14 AM·1 votes·1,716 views

If a player is making a complaint about a champion, item, etc., they should have sources and/or other evidence supporting their claims. If not, then they don't have the basic grounds to have a discussion on the topic and are simply spamming the boards with baseless opinions, which have no place on a forum intended to bring change to the game (since you can't message Riot directly with your thoughts).

Such nonsense is a major reason we don't see much change based on things from these official boards, and instead have Riot actively looking at Reddit. It should be culled.

Edit: It's important to recognize that I am not asking for unpopular opinions to be silenced. I'm asking for all complaints that lack evidence to be removed because they are nothing more than spam. If you think a champion should be deleted or needs buffs, then provide evidence from in game or league analytics sites, or keep it on your own tumblr blog. Baseless complaints have no place on a discussion forum, especially when it further bogs up the posts via the author simply responding to ever comment proving them wrong with, "I don't care," or blatant lies.

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ModThe Djinn7/3/2018, 3:37:31 PM3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Uber Deer,realm=NA,application-id=6heBIhQc,discussion-id=ng1l0U6q,comment-id=,timestamp=2018-07-03T08:40:14.184+0000)...which have no place on a forum intended to bring change to the game.

It's important to realize that the Gameplay forums exist to discuss the game, not necessarily bring changes to it. People's complaints, opinions, and -- yes -- even the occasional rant are part of discussing the game.

Now, we are looking into ways to allow both types of post to exist without either eclipsing the others, but we don't have anything ready to roll out immediately. So the problem is on our radar, but "cull anything without evidence" isn't a solution we're happy with.

ModKnightsKemplar7/3/2018, 3:58:02 PM2 votes

In addition to Djinn's comments, we don't want to appear to be censoring opinions. You're always going to attract a certain number of "mod favoritism" complaints, but we are careful about that issue. And I certainly don't want anyone to feel like certain opinions about the game aren't allowed.

If you think Zed should be deleted because he's a toxic champ, there should be a place to express that. You may not have any evidence. But there's sort of a grey area there between "this is just promoting toxic discussion" and "this is censoring player opinions."