Hello everyone~! The timing of this topic actually couldn't be any better as the Warden program just released a whole bunch of us into the fray.
There should be a proper introduction thread soon, but for now I am 1/4th of your new Gameplay board specific Wardens and this particular issue is something we've had quite a few days of discussion about. Allow me just a tiny bit of banner raising to pin this comment so more people can see that plans are indeed in motion.
And for all you TL;DR people, feel free to Control + F down to the "Plan of the Week"
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Now for the meat of things. Just what can we do/want to do about high influx of subjects like 'Rengar' that, while obviously having a very strongly passionate community behind them, tend to bog down the boards in a lot of similar, low-impact, topic spam.
First, we need to look at 'why' this tends to happen. Over time there's this general 'history' in the community, even going back to the days of the original Forum system, that in order to gain Riot's attention you need to be loud, boisterous, if not downright aggressive to get the coveted 'Red Post' confirming that your topic has indeed gotten attention. While, admittedly, this has worked in a few rare cases; we've noticed this has led to a more aggressive environment over time with less and less constructive-styled feedback popping up. In tandem with this, Riot posts have turned up less commonly as well.
Then of course you have the side 'whys' like bandwagoning, 5 seconds-in-spotlight-ect.
So what can be done/what do we plan to do about it?
Well, as they say in the old Western movies: There's a new sheriff in town.
Now, before we give off the wrong idea here, we're talked this through quite a bit and none of us want to take the 'purify by flames' approach at all. In fact just discouraging and/or deleting posts left, right, and center wound end badly for everyone. We're quite well studied on the 'Us vs the Mods' era back when Boards first began. Instead we'd like to try a few 'reward' systems on top of just simply enforcing the rules on a fundamental level. Here's the two biggest points of action we're focusing on right now.
"Plan of the Week"
Megathreads
So what 'is' a Megathread? A Megathread is a combination of, what normally is dozens of different ideas scattered across individual threads, all wrapped up into a singular post. With proper formatting (and a ToC list) people can quickly see if their point has been made, offer new points, content current points, ect. All in the comment's section of a single thread.
We would like to think this could have three great side effect for the community here as a whole.
-Those who go to the effort to maintain Megathreads, on issues that come and go such as this Rengar moment, can potentially see their threads Pinned for maximum Riot visibility. We're still discussing the 'qualifications' for what hits this critical mass point, but be assured it is a hotbed issue in our minds at the moment.
-With a pinned discussion, containing a LOT of constructive critique of an issue, we're hoping this will more positively encourage Rioters to have a spot to leave feedback on the issues you, the community, feel need some form of addressing.
-Additionally, this incentive should help give people reasons to gravitate towards centralized threads; rather than spinning out as many clone-topics as possible.
Enforcement of the Universal Rules
Now, for the sake of clarity and sanity, we know that even the most Positive minded of solutions isn't going to be a 100% fix. People will still want to make their own topics (which is fine in and of itself!), people will still bandwagon. However, at least half of the current issue we and the community have with this can be addressed by applying the Universal Rules themselves. You will likely see these ones in particular enforced quite a bit in the near future.
Spamming / Trolling
-Posting designed to bait conversation or falsify content
-Making repetitive non-constructive or low effort content
-Bumping of discussions with no additional context
Let's be honest on both ends, there are quite a few posts containing merely a few lines, of things already more constructively covered in other threads or said purely just to anger people into replying. In recent history these have simply slid through due to being 'topic of the moment' relevant and Upvoted highly enough to stick around far longer than they should.
Aside from directly reported topics, these will likely be the ones most likely to be sealed up by us.
Together we're hoping these two approaches will help with quite a few of the issues you've brought up in this thread and discussion!
Please, if you have any feedback, questions, concerns fire away! The Wardens are all ears for things the Community would like to see happen as well; as we're going to do everything in our power to make our transition a two-way street.
Regards~
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frenzy" is making it more similar to reddit in that its diluting other gameplay issues that we're trying to discuss.
mains. Even worse these toxic people managed to cooperate. It is scary how annoying it is when all the toxic mains unite.
They did nothing but spam the boards, demand special attention and was insulting anyone who did not agree to bring back the unbalanced Rengar. Yes they are toxic mains because decent players dont behave like that.
