These boards are terribly designed for asking questions...

Madjack01·Jan 10, 2018·47 votes·4,791 views

...or initiating a discussion through a question.

A question can be very thought provoking and definitely profits from exposure and thus upvotes just as much as any other discussion based on opinions. However properly asked questions tend to be neutral in nature and thus give no reason to upvote or downvote.

This means that only a tiny part of the community will get to see a thread based on a question before it fades into oblivion.

Are there any plans to change this? Like a double upvote sysem or popularity based on comments just as much as on upvotes?

19 Comments

BârdJan 10, 201820 votes

What do you mean?

Threads along the lines of "How the hell is (X CHAMPION) balanced?" make the top of gameplay all the time.

HalcyonDwellerJan 10, 201812 votes

I think they probably mean genuine questions, rather than combative statements posed as questions.

Madjack01Jan 10, 20183 votes

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I think they probably mean genuine questions, rather than combative statements posed as questions.

^ This

Edit: Oha, I totally missed the irony in Bards statement. Well played, good sir.

Velzard of KozJan 10, 20189 votes

Bard was joking.

HalcyonDwellerJan 10, 20182 votes

Ah I see. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Sraeg2013Jan 10, 20184 votes

These boards are terribly designed

/thread

PaladinNOJan 10, 20183 votes

Are there any plans to change this?

Here's a fun fact: These Boards has been in Beta since their release, 3 years ago. And last I heard, a year ago or so, there has apparently been no web developers working on it since.

I have seen numerous threads containing good advice on how to improve these Boards, with both minor and major changes, added functionality etc. But guess what? There has not been a Red reply in any of them.

DisembarkJan 10, 20186 votes

They probably gave up because they realized no matter how well it was designed they couldn’t change the fact that it’s full of retards

Starcraft243verJan 10, 20182 votes

Can't we get a system like stackexchange ? It's so much better.

Velzard of KozJan 10, 20187 votes

You mean you get stoned to death and proposed to get cruicfied afterwards If you ask a question that the elite considers too dumb to see the light of the forum?

Oh wait that is Stack Overflow...

CowseedJan 10, 20182 votes

Or have to shuffle through page after page and can't find your question only to post it after and have some guy tell you the question's a repeat.

Starcraft243verJan 11, 20181 votes

That's only the case for repost and it's well deserved.

Taking something like 10 min to search if another similar topic already exists before opening one is really little to ask.

DarkKatalystJan 11, 20182 votes

I have a pretty good idea on how to fix this. New posts should have their upvote and downvote arrows temporarily hidden. An algorithm would weigh the popularity of a post through interaction metrics, such as number of times viewed, commented on, and time spent on the post page. Greater popularity gives you a greater chance of being seen by others. When the post reaches a certain age (for example, an hour), the upvote arrow appears. If the post reaches a threshold of upvotes, OR reaches a certain older age, the downvote arrow appears.

I think this would prevent immediate shutdowns by individuals, and allows the poster a shot at having their ideas viewed by more people. Funny enough, if someone wants to censor you, their interaction with your post would give it more weight in popularity. If something is spam, I imagine there wouldn't be very much interaction with it, so it would be buried.

ModWuksApr 12, 20182 votes

As you may have noticed, we now have our most recent addition to the Boards- Ask the Community

While it won't resolve all of the issues you listed, I do believe that it will help encourage more asking and answering of questions.

HellmetJan 10, 20181 votes

The boards are just terribly designed in general. A few years ago when they went to this format the masses screamed how terrible they were.. like all things of course Riot ignored the player base. Basically, Riot wanted to create a board that would let players post when they got mad.. but made it so confusing and so.. 'lost' that it made it easy for them to ignore the players. That's what they want, this is what we got.

LegendmakerGXJan 11, 20181 votes

Bro this Board is still in beta for over 3 years by now, this is what i call Riot hiring useless lazy people who can't even finish their job before doing nothing. This probably fall under the people who design the website which heads up even the website with old champion info are out of dated and wacked as F**K.