Moderators Power

Chainman3·Nov 2, 2019·2 votes·4,063 views

Moderators should have the authority and power to take down posts which have no evidence due to the lower quality of these posts and troll posts which are obviously either tilted players or players who are trolling the boards to get a reaction. I know some people out there view Mods as abusive with their power, but theyre literally the only thing keeping this venue open for us to have a voice, without it going out of control and into a shithole of posts that have no value or meaning.

Mods have been raising the bar for the quality of posts but even now i still see tons of posts that people are making, which are just emotional cannon fodder. The rant boards can have these type of posts like it was made to have but general discussion and gameplay threads should have these removed and issue a small punishment like a 1 day ban from posting to keep the users from trying to work around it.

At the end of the day i really want the quality of the posts on the boards to improve and want to have logical discussions with others. Theres no discussion to be had when someone says "i feel like champion x is too strong", because then a response like "i feel like champion x isnt too strong" ends the discussion. Many posts dont include a why and they should need to otherwise theres nothing to discuss over.

"https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/rUesA6Ag-urf-reminded-me-of-something" Heres a really good post thats a good example of how our posts should be formulated.

he talks about shaco and other trap based abilities. Now im not going to go too much into detail because im using this as an example of a good post, the actual content is irrelevant to this discussion.

11 Comments

DuskDaUmbreonNov 2, 20194 votes

Please, god, this. They've been increasing the standards for the boards, but it's still nowhere near high enough.

There's still way too many blatant rants allowed to sit at the top of the boards for way too long. Even it being in GD shouldn't be an excuse.

Every (non-joke) post calling for a nerf needs to be backed by actual stats. This needs to be enforced by mods 3-day banning anyone who fails to do so, with the only exception being things where stats simply are not physically available in a reliable manner.

Extreme? Very much so. But with this sheer septic tank that's been dumped on the boards, with many posts being shitposts that shouldn't have even been able to be formed on a keyboard without the computer fucking giving up, it's about the only damn thing that's strict enough.

Maybe relax it after a few months, once everyone's gotten the hang of it. Once the community finally stops encouraging this shit, it can be dropped back down to just spamming levels with punishment.

Chainman3Nov 2, 20191 votes

Problem with this is theres very few supporters to it. The mods understand us and very few players understand this as well, but i do feel a majority who post under gameplay come to rant about a champion who just stomped in their game.

Even a logical reasoning id say would be enough in some cases to have a discussion about certain champions, but when theres nothing but insults being thrown on a champion whats there to discuss.

rujitraNov 2, 20193 votes

I’ve called for this, or at least for them to take down things that are proven lies during discussion, but they don’t have the manpower or don’t want to be “fact police” (which makes it sound bad ).

Chainman3Nov 2, 20191 votes

I agree that they should but i can also see the man power it takes. Which is why im going for the posts which are clearly posts not for discussion and more or less just rants or emotional outbursts.

Other posts can be something like Gangplank has a 40% winrate right now he needs a nerf (idk gp's winrate but just as an example) And yes i meant nerfs not buffs to show the post being illogical. I also know where winrate may not be a clear deciding factor i just wanted to make a quick example.

rujitraNov 2, 20191 votes

I think they’re only doing that on gameplay for now. Hopefully it expands.

Chainman3Nov 2, 20191 votes

I know its hard on them but hopefully it does expand, because players are posting things are general discussion and sometimes gameplay too and reading these posts and wondering whats there to discuss gets tiring.

ModUlanopoNov 2, 20193 votes

As far as Gameplay is concerned, we're working on it.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/XPgk5MhA-proposed-rules-update-to-gameplay-sub-board-feedback-wanted

I've been pushing for a GP rules update for a while now and that's my working document. I feel we're about 90% complete. It's longer than the other rules updates, but improving GP is a much bigger ask, as we're going to have to change the culture.

With regard to GD, that's not likely to change. The culture of GD is more "rough and tumble" on purpose, as that's what the GD community has always wanted. "Low effort" has a very different meaning there.

rujitraNov 2, 20192 votes

I am glad to see progress being made on gameplay. Thanks for your work.

Chainman3Nov 2, 20191 votes

I think much of that is on point. Asking for reverts is the only thing im on the line about and thats only because Riot did choose to revert Leblanc but then again she didnt receive a massive rework. Id be pretty down for all those changes.

The only reason i brought up GD is because I've recently seen posts that more or less "turn people off" from the boards. Now i say people but i can only speak for myself and i assume there are others like me, who dont want to see something like this. https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/general-discussion/rVE0qlqh-camera-bug-urf-is-the-most-annoying-thing-ive-seen

Where you can see theres no actual discussion to be had there, its just a complaint with a bug in this case, but mostly GP is where these issues are that shouldnt and I really want to thank you guys for the work you put in so i and others dont have to bleed our eyes out reading some of this stuff.

ModJikkerNov 3, 20192 votes

Hey there,

As a long time member of the GD community, I can say we aren't going to be really enforcing a "only high quality" thread standard there. We GDers have a tendency to speak what's on our mind and so long as it doesn't become egregiously spammy (posting dozens of threads that consist of nothing or a wall of emotes) and stays within the Board Universal Rules regarding everything else (no hate speech, no harassment of others, etc...) we find them a-okay. It's what allows us to post random things about our lives and express our frustration in derpy ways, being a dysfunctional family as always. I'm sorry if you feel that turns people away from the Boards as that's the last thing we want, but we also want the community of GD to thrive as it always has, rants and all.

We are working on improving the other sub-boards though as Ulanopo noted.

Chainman3Nov 8, 20191 votes

Oh the GD board was kind of a side thing where i saw people posting gameplay centered content in GD in which i understand the point you're making and why people would do it. I was just tired of reading all the "nerf champion x because busted" when i respond with "why is it busted" the response is somewhere along the lines of "do you play this game?" or "are you serious?" as if they dont have a reason besides their personal motive to get a champ nerfed.

But i do get where your coming from and i understand. Thank you for your efforts on the boards as well.