Let's Discuss Memes & Games, Memers!

Melledoneus·9/27/2017, 5:41:31 PM·22 votes·3,422 views

Greetings summoners!

Oh how time flies. It has been over 3 months now since the inception of the Warden program. In that time, we have made some changes to the rules of M&G. To recap what they are:

  •      Community posts are now allowed, specifically posts directly to or about specific users
    
  •      Memes no longer have to be directly related to League of Legends
    

Overall, we are rather happy with how M&G has been operating these last few months, and look forward to continuing this board’s advancement. But we cannot do it alone. Ultimately, M&G is a community sub-board, and we need the community’s help to properly lead M&G into the future.

So in the spirit of unity and community advancement, I have two questions to ask you: -What is your opinion of the moderation of M&G these last 3 months? This includes your opinion of the M&G Wardens (Laughing Fish and Melledoneus), your opinion of the recent rule changes, etc.

-What do you think we could do to better improve and grow this section? (This includes rule changes, possible events, etc.)

Some ideas we have been thinking of are things like community meme compilations for months, best meme contests, etc. But, of course we don't expect these rough draft ideas to sit well with anyone, so follow the skeleton's example: https://i.imgur.com/uAVh449.png

Make sure to upvotes ideas you like in the comments below!

Together, we will make M&G great again.

-- Laughing Fish -- Melledoneus

32 Comments

Risk of Fate9/27/2017, 5:45:33 PM12 votes

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Eternal Torment9/27/2017, 6:55:42 PM7 votes
  • What is your opinion of the moderation of M&G these last 3 months?

It has been very well sorted. However, somehow people still find a way to come here being fully serious and start debates. Maybe emphasize that the M&G Boards is for jokes and thus not to be taken so serious. That one place where everyone wants to relax, and this nerf this dude still finds a way to slip into it.

  • What do you think we could do to better improve and grow this section?

Maybe start some Community colab games, like those Best Champion votes this one guy is making. Not only are they a huge success, but everyone can be a part of it and they are set in times long enough that even peeps only visiting once a week can have a chance to participate. M&G doesn't Need better content. it Needs wider range in the content it already owns.

Those are my opinions on your questions. I have to say you have been keeping this one up damn good, i don't think many people could Play out Moderation this well and manage to not be an complete asshole about it. I can already say, if i was a moderator i would probably do those "abuse power" Posts justice, unlike LF whos more chill than the damn south pole.

Ra1uga9/27/2017, 10:47:37 PM6 votes

We need more awesome people here like Melledoneus and Laughing Fish.

Malicious Metal9/27/2017, 10:23:19 PM5 votes

There's a severe lack of Mordekaiser memes on this board. Smh...

DuskDaUmbreon9/27/2017, 8:19:25 PM4 votes

-What is your opinion of the moderation of M&G these last 3 months? This includes your opinion of the M&G Wardens (Laughing Fish and Melledoneus), your opinion of the recent rule changes, etc.

Laughing Fish is neither Laughing nor a Fish. Nor is he funny, humorous, or even tolerable. And your Shenpai sucks, Melledoneus. He can't make even half-decent crust, let alone a good pie. He once tried to put cherries in a pizza, since he thought that's how you made cherry pie. Gods, this is why Pantheon's the baker, not Shen!

...Okay. Now, seriously. You're both chill. I honestly don't see you two do much besides steal top comment from me react with hilarious gifs and comments, and shitpost post memes. If that's because this is a more tolerable board, meaning you don't need to do anything, or if it's because you're just not too obsessive, I don't know. But I like it.

There is the issue of Gameplay drunkenly stumbling into M&G, either to comment that Janna/Tristana/Twitch/Whatever's broken, or to post that, in the thinnest of disguises as a meme. However, they usually vanish off the face of the earth, as they face hoards of downvotes, banishing them from sight, to the depths of where all but a select few Player Behavior posts end up.

The rules are fine as-is. Although we do need the scientifically proven definition of what constitutes a meme. Beyond the joke there, there is the serious side of it, where we do need to know where the line between a meme and other discussion is. When is it a joke about the meta, that encourages some thought an discussion, or when is it a discussion that includes a joke? Where's the line between the two? That's the biggest thing I think any of us want to know.

That, and we all need a separate font for sarcasm. /s needs to automatically put our post or selection into said sarcastic font. That way we can differentiate what is meme, and what is serious. Because there is still some serious in this realm.

-What do you think we could do to better improve and grow this section? (This includes rule changes, possible events, etc.)

I think we could use a bit more emphasis on the "games" part of M&G. We have many, MANY memes. Enough memes to fill a trilogy. Enough memes to write your doctoral thesis on Memeology. But so few games. The closest thing we have is the favorite champion thing that that one guy has posted. Maybe some challenges, maybe some other fun, interesting things. Other votes, to determine this vital information. Maybe some kind of forum game. I have no idea what we could do, but that's my idea.

Don't really think any rules are needed, but we should probably suggest that downvotes be used not for "bad" memes, but solely for those things which do not belong. If a meme's just not funny, but is clearly a meme, it shouldn't be downvoted. This is clearly not for my own benefit, so that I may be able to finally reach the front page

WrÆth9/28/2017, 12:00:05 AM2 votes

Wait you just called us "Memers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9o6krTi5rA

Papa Andrei9/28/2017, 5:32:44 AM2 votes

-What is your opinion of the moderation of M&G these last 3 months? This includes your opinion of the M&G Wardens (Laughing Fish and Melledoneus), your opinion of the recent rule changes, etc.

Alright so this isn't an issue with you two moderating, its mostly how the other sections do. IT seems Memes and Games now also includes Gameplay, General Discussion, and Story/Art/Sound. There have been many a post that is an obvious joke and troll post, in those other sections. Maybe you two can talk to the other Wardens and ask them to reinforce their roles so that the other sections are actually used for their intended purpose.

But M/G seems well moderated, as I rarely see any posts here that aren't actual jokes, or people being toxic. (Except the same like 10 fools who try and start a debate every chance)

TheZacStreetBoys9/28/2017, 12:08:42 AM1 votes

Undertale memes? More like: Blatant 9-year old clickbait (Take my upvote daddy)

WyvernEgg10/24/2017, 5:08:57 PM1 votes

Isnt being productive against the whole idea of memes? https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/9834/496848-mask_salesman_rage.gif