Question about my post being deleted.

NY64·Jul 25, 2019·7 votes·5,706 views

So I made a post called "Would you like to see infinity edge nerfed" the post was deleted because they want me to "spend a bit more time on your post and keep your content constructive".

Ok I understand now that you want me to say more than 1 sentence in the body of my post. My body was "So ADC's can stop doing so much damage". I just want to explain why I made the body only 1 sentence. I have made many posts and have learned that the ones I make that usually get the most views,votes, and comments are those that are short and sweet. They get to the point right away before the reader loses their attention and moves on to the next post instead of making posts that are long essays that eventually make readers lose their focus.

So my question is what is a good middle ground between being constructive content and giant essays? How many sentences should I use to have my post be considered constructive? Or was it the content itself that was bad? I've seen posts before that use only one sentence so I thought that was ok to use.

4 Comments

ModUlanopoJul 25, 20194 votes

I don't know why people are downvoting you, as it's a perfectly valid question. When you say, "I have made many posts and have learned that the ones I make that usually get the most views,votes, and comments are those that are short and sweet", you've kind of hit the nail on the head. The biggest problem with Gameplay right now is how difficult it is to find meaningful content. Threads that only exist as a conversation starter are generally a better fit for RANT or GD, as the majority of the feedback we receive is people wanting more substance.

With regard to your specific thread, I feel it's a problem because it expects the reader to accept a pair of unsupported assumptions: that ADC's do too much damage and that Infinity Edge is a core component for why they do too much damage. We're not expecting a graduate thesis on this, but you need to structure the conversation in such a way that it can lead in productive directions.

As examples, if IE is too strong, when and why is it strong? What do you mean when you say that ADC's do too much damage? Does IE squeeze out other gear choices?

NY64Jul 26, 20191 votes

Personally yes I do believe that infinity edge does take out diversity in other builds. Heck we have Jhins that buy 5 infinity edges because it is so good. What makes it good is that it gives 80 attack damage. In the past it used to give 65 AD. Right now it feels like as soon as ADC’s get the item, they delete people in a few auto attacks and it doesn’t help the lethal tempo allows them to attack so fast and even go beyond the attack speed cap.

ModUlanopoJul 26, 20191 votes

Good. Take that. Make it about 75% less ranty and BOOM! Gameplay post.

rujitraJul 26, 20191 votes

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I don't know why people are downvoting you, as it's a perfectly valid question. When you say, "I have made many posts and have learned that the ones I make that usually get the most views,votes, and comments are those that are short and sweet", you've kind of hit the nail on the head.

Unfortunately, I presume this is another example where people are using it to upvote/downvote based on things other than the "validity" of the thread - which I agree should ideally be the only thing factored into a vote up or down. Happens on PB a lot too - people vote up or down based on the punishment the player is asking about and/or the player's "wrong opinion" that toxicity is bad - versus what it should be - upvote valid questions/constructive discussion, downvote players who are simply not willing to discuss.