There's an unhealthy belief that the forums are a majority.

FosterTheChamps··4 votes·621 views

When I see posts that say "most people hate such and such, just look at all these posts with all these upvotes!" I have to kind of laugh because apparently 200-1000 up votes is a "majority" of the entire population of league.

Reviews aren't written by happy customers.

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OverpoweredSoap3 votes

If the boards manages to agree on something enough that it has 1k+ upvotes, then it might be a decent indication that the majority might like it as well.

I have seen maybe like 5 or 6 threads in my lifetime on the league boards (since early season 3, which isn't that long I guess) with over 1k votes.

disregardable1 votes

You need to keep in mind that the kind of players that come on the forums/reddit are generally not representative of the majority.

OverpoweredSoap1 votes

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You need to keep in mind that the kind of players that come on the forums/reddit are generally not representative of the majority.

Hence, why I said a decent indication instead of a good or great indication.

Rarely does the boards agree on something (unless its people wanting more refunds or something trivial like that) to the point in has 1k+ upvotes.

Terozu1 votes

You have to then realize that theres over 20k ppl on the forums, so 1k is not a majority either

IcyPepper1 votes

You could say we're a sample size though.

Terozu1 votes

also lague has a couple hunred thousand players, the record for most upvotes is 1.6k

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

If the forums are not a majority, and it's members of that population who believe this, then a majority of the minority believes it to be true. And a majority of the minority is still a minority. So... meh.

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