Thread Lock in eSports?

IncrediPhiLL·Oct 20, 2018·9 votes·6,587 views

A few days ago, someone posted a thread called “Nothing new at World for NA” or something like that. I was following the thread pretty closely because there was some nice discussion and banter. A lot of NA v EU discussion as is the usual in these eSports forums.

I noticed today that the thread had been locked... apparently some glorified mod locked the thread due to the “OP not keeping things civil and insults despite being warned” or something like that.

I read through several of the comments and didn’t notice anything unusual or crazy about the discussion that should have caused it to get locked. And even if the discussion was out of line, it wasn’t just the OP who was getting fired up. Made me wonder why the glorified admin came in and publicly slammed the OP in an official shutdown comment while holding no one else accountable... even though there was really no reason to come in and do that anyway.

Has this happened before or is this something new that RIOT is doing on the esports forums? The fact that some person can just come in and shut down any thread that he/she wants is a little wrong to me. Especially when I’ve seen far worse threads in the last week that are still alive and kicking.

14 Comments

GeminiRuneOct 20, 20184 votes

I saw that thread and what traffic it gave. Nothing needed to be done about that. Most everything in there was the day of it's creation and it was mild like you said.

Even the back n forth that happened there about 2 hours ago wasn't anything like "braindead NA bronze analyst and mind" material of insults. It feels a tad petty compared to the like the PB board. It's been pretty chill on this board even with the periodic region wars.

xChinOct 20, 20183 votes

Comparing NA to EU is an insult to EU region at this point. Good thing it got locked.

IncrediPhiLLOct 20, 20182 votes

Careful. The admin will lock this thread too with BM like that.

Velzard of KozOct 20, 20184 votes

funnily enough, xChin was the one who started the flame in the locked topic. Other tha that even then it wasn't bad. The only uncivil posts were the bottom ones shittalking NA and the mod didn't even mentoin them.

Dr PoroOct 20, 20182 votes

You can't say that unless C9 gets eliminated tomorrow. I believe EU > NA, but NA is no laughing stock this year with C9 making it out of 'the group of death' Yeah Gen G was terrible, but only because the other teams made them look terrible. Both NA and EU stepped up huge this year.

xChinOct 21, 20181 votes

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You can't say that unless C9 gets eliminated tomorrow. I believe EU > NA, but NA is no laughing stock this year with C9 making it out of 'the group of death' Yeah Gen G was terrible, but only because the other teams made them look terrible. Both NA and EU stepped up huge this year.

They not a laughing stock because they are getting carried by imports.

DartExplosion10Oct 20, 20183 votes

mods here are garbage, nothing out of the ordinary

ModPeriscopeOct 20, 20182 votes

I looked into that thread. The OP decided to continue insulting after a warning on the thread.

This may or may not be the place to post this, but I couldn’t find a better place to post it XD

Discuss the boards is the place to discuss moderation actions, for future reference.

IncrediPhiLLOct 20, 20182 votes

Another one blaming the OP. I guess I just don’t understand the logic of it.

Hey. You’re the moderator. Thanks for clearing up where to post in the future. I look forward to continuing an in debt discussion on the topic of thread locking logic over there.

ModPeriscopeOct 20, 20181 votes

Another one blaming the OP. I guess I just don’t understand the logic of it.

We don't really lock threads unless they really devolve into continued insults, or if insults continue after a warning is given. The locks without warning happen on pretty old threads.

IncrediPhiLLOct 20, 20181 votes

This may or may not be the place to post this, but I couldn’t find a better place to post it XD

EleshakaiOct 20, 20181 votes

Actually... the admins likely will lock this thread... there's an e-mail address I think to inquire about forum disciplinary actions, as posting about it is, last I checked, technically against the forums CoC.

IncrediPhiLLOct 20, 20181 votes

I see that as a possibility. Apparently they’ll lock anything in these forums with good reason or not.

EleshakaiOct 20, 20182 votes