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Why on earth would you wait until a post had several hundred upvotes to delete it?

Eedat·4/23/2019, 2:43:56 AM·92 votes·17,025 views

Why on earth would you wait until a post has several hundred upvotes and over a day of being up to remove it? There was a post about bans in ARAM that had hundreds of upvotes and was up for over a day before being removed. I'm sorry but if you didn't catch it after it's gone that far then its a straight up abuse of power to remove it. This just goes to show that there are absolute ZEEEEERRRROOOOOO standards that moderator's actions are held to and it's a straight up gamble about how the rules are enforced. Just keep reporting until you get a mod that will remove it even if 10 other mods allowed it. There is absolutely NO consistency to how the rules are applied.

I'm sorry but you cant just allow mods to arbitrarily remove posts with 400+ upvotes for "low effort" while still allowing far more blatant shitposts to stay. You missed that boat by a mile. Maybe you should enforce stricter standards for moderators or at least try to have some semblance of consistency because as of now there is absolutely zero.

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ModThe Djinn4/23/2019, 1:58:09 PM30 votes

Posts get removed when they're in violation of the rules and we notice them, either through normal browsing when we have time (and are at a computer we can moderate through) or through player reports. Upvote total rarely figures in.

In this case it was a holiday weekend, which leads to a large number of people casually on the boards but which also entails family and/or religious obligations for many individuals, including the moderation team. This means that the number of casual posters/upvoters is higher than usual, while the number of moderators able to dedicate time to swiftly addressing issues is lower than usual.

If a post does more than request upvotes for agreement by attempting to create a discussion, offer points for consideration, etc., that's fine. That was not the case here. It would be totally appropriate for General Discussion -- here's someone who posted that, for example --, but not for Gameplay.

mack91124/23/2019, 7:51:35 AM9 votes

It was deleted when the conversation in the thread turned toxic.

Cheini4/23/2019, 2:39:01 PM3 votes

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You seriously think Riot is going to get concerned because some 200 people out of their millions and millions of players upvoted a post on the boards?

I also do not see how you could possibly think 200 upvotes is a record. The post really didn't receive that much attention and if you were less busy blindly accusing with your tinfoil hat on you would know the moderators deleted the thread only once the comments on it were becoming toxic, not because they were waiting around to react.

keep in mind that the longer a thread is on 1st place, the more random people would 1st time open the boards/check a dev corner article/etc :p

and oh it definitely did.. sadly waybackmachine doesn't have records of saturday and sunday, however 19th 0:44:25 the voting up+down was 182, with 5.1k views.. later more. Published 18.04.2019, 11:43:57 GMT, Thursday

  **btw, not holidays, Djinn. '-.- **

save for catholic christians, in which case it is k but.. i kind of think not all of you are..

and, in deed, wasn't the idea of the post to act both as a poll, and to raise attention about the topic?... which is happening as well atm, and it will take its time.

Gatorade Clutch4/23/2019, 7:55:52 AM2 votes

Hi ! Fiddlesticks

General Esdeath 4/23/2019, 4:18:46 PM2 votes

Because the mods are unpaid volunteers who don't browse boards all day.