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Are large chunk of mods need a reform (Callout post, but I request only maturity and no insults)

IronyAndSublime·4/30/2019, 3:49:42 PM·96 votes·18,905 views

The mods, as of recent, have been deleting very popular posts and comments that a lot of people seem to agree with. Complaints about the removal of ARAM bans, removed Complaints about the removals, getting removed Comments about these events, removed. Posts calling out Moderator power abuse, removed.

Right now, a large number of mods are abusing their powers to silence the community's complaints about their own integrity and competence. And right now, I'm noticing most of them just try to find any bare minimum that could give them even the tiniest excuse to delete someone's post.

It's even gotten to a point where mods deleted violent champion quotes they didn't even bother looking up (Not allowed to quote Rhaast anymore, apparently. Heart goes out to OP who pointed this out)

Heck, even MEMES about the mod's use of their powers risk getting deleted.

What I suggest, and although I'm not a significant person, just another random who plays league, is that we call for reform. A change of policy of who can mod and what they can do. Because right now, a lot of the mods here are doing UNACCEPTABLE censorship. People come here to state an opinion about this game, and they shouldn't be this lazy and inconsistent with what they deem "Toxic" (Especially when you make a RANT board, which involves the most vulgar people)

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ModThe Djinn4/30/2019, 4:02:50 PM45 votes

{quoted}Right now, a large number of mods are abusing their powers to silence the community's complaints about their own integrity and competence.

I'll be honest: this is a conspiracy theory. Hell, a look at this board alone shows any number of threads that would be deleted if this were true. If we secretly had an agenda of stifling complaints, we could do it much better than this. But we don't have said agenda, so we don't.

We remove complaints that are uncivil, insulting, or attack us as individuals, yes -- because we remove individual attacks against anyone, Mod/Rioter/otherwise.

I'll also respond to the Rhaast quote removal, as I know that bothered some people. I don't reasonably expect any League player, moderator, or even Riot voice line writer to be able to identify every League quote out of context. Many of them are not acceptable things to say to another community member, such as "I'll drown you in your own blood!" This means that we run into edge cases where someone using a champion quote out of the context of the game can use that quote to insult or otherwise display inappropriate behavior towards another community member. In the case of that particular removal, there was not sufficient context to tell whether or not the champion quote was being used to insult another player or simply to quote the champion, and in cases like that we are on the side of caution and remove it without punishing the person who made the post. This removes the possible attack against another community member, while giving the benefit of the doubt to the author of the post with regards to whether or not a punishment is issued.

SnupRawr4/30/2019, 4:03:46 PM16 votes

watch this get deleted :3

Xhaiden4/30/2019, 5:36:02 PM8 votes

There's no way that's the reason. For every complaint Against bans - there were at least 10 x topics Pro Bans. That would mean that Riot selectively ignored at least 90% of community to favor around 10% (or far less). Since the MAJORITY enjoyed that feature - thus they enjoyed ARAM more and played it more - that's probably why they removed it.

As you may have noticed ... modes like URF are really popular yet they're only temporarily available. Twisted Treeline 3 vs 3 is heavily neglected. Which could mean - they're sabotaging all the other modes intentionally - to force the majority to play on Rift. Since everything revolves around Rift in LoL.

Imbetterthanmoe4/30/2019, 4:44:07 PM5 votes

Doesnt matter who needs to reform and who doesnt. It doesnt matter what posts get taken down and what dont. This forum is a waste of time. Rioters rarely see suggestions and if they ever do they comment "Thats a good idea" and it never happens. The only purpose this forum has is to show leaked gameplay

Pandemic Punch4/30/2019, 7:17:56 PM5 votes

Well, I know the mods deleted a major complaint thread that was talking about the ARAM ban removal. I was under the impression that it was removed because it was constantly flooded with new replies that had something in them that broke the rules. The volume was too high so the only sensible thing to do from their perspective was to delete the entire thread. HOWEVER, they also recreated a thread on the same topic to allow the community to continue to voice their concerns on it. They made the rules vastly more clear in that thread and put forth an effort to keep that thread on topic so there are less insults and rule breaking.

I am not one to defend the mods very often but this is just plain silly. The mods couldn't care less what you talk about as long as it is in the rules. Do you come on the board often? If so, just take a look around and you will see that my point is blatantly proven. They let a LOT of harsh criticism through that probably has no business being here because 100% of many posts are just insults and cussing Riot out. Many of those get to stay though because there is no CLEAR rule breaking.

Just..... Stay in school kids.

OtakuBurrito5/1/2019, 3:29:09 PM4 votes

The Djinn is the only mod I know off the top of my head that as also been nice and fair even in old days.

Evangeline??? too but I don't see her much anymore.

Moody P4/30/2019, 4:22:48 PM4 votes

I should be mod I'll clean this place up real quick