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Man I don't understand these boards

Hello I am Bird··149 votes·4,208 views

I hate the celebrity bias or whatever you wanna call it. Everyone on the boards like to pride themselves on being more intellectual and speaking for what's right, yet the moment that someone posts and idea it's downvoted to oblivion. Then, when Laughing fish or Malicous Metal posts the exact same idea, worded generally the same, they get hundreds of upvotes. Then, when people see Laughing/Metal post an idea, they get the great idea to rephrase the exact same thing they said, only with less points and a witty pun. These posts then flood the hot boards, and any real discussion anyone could have besides "Fuck Riot change this" is pushed to the wayside in favor of "Man, I just lost against a Yasuo, BETTER MAKE A RAGE POST ABOUT HIM AND START THE HATE TRAIN AGAIN" Now is the point where I say "You all will downvote me for saying this" so that you'll upvote me because the people on the boards feel some sense of justice upvoting people when they say that. Most of the boards community are such sheeps and I hate the fact that nobody can have any real discussion because everything revolves around a common point.

The only exception I can find for this are when lore events come out and everyone starts hypothesising, one of the only times that the boards provides meaningful discussion.

112 Comments

ModWuks32 votes

The Boards has its inherent problems, and that's one of the main reasons we set up the Boards Community & Moderation sub-board. We're actively trying to gather feedback to better understand how we can address a lot of these issues as a community. Generally, I think name recognition for a lot of people is related to the quality of content from that player (very broadly speaking). I think there are a good number of meme posts that generate quality discussion by shining light on a topic with humor, but yes, there are also plenty of posts that don't generate that same discussion value but also make it to the front page, bumping down some other quality posts. If you have a way to address this, I very strongly encourage you to post your ideas and feedback in the Boards Community & Moderation sub-board.

Wheatloaf6 votes

I love the idea behind the board, but it's got a tall order in front of it. I look forward to hopefully remembering to sift through it once I recover from finals.

SteelMankind5 votes

Ever thought of creating an optional filter for hiding posts containing negative keywords?

ModWuks3 votes

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Ever thought of creating an optional filter for hiding posts containing negative keywords?

Can you elaborate on this?

Melledoneus2 votes

Sort of like Google's feature where after your search you put "-something" to remove "something" from your search results?

ModWuks3 votes

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Sort of like Google's feature where after your search you put "-something" to remove "something" from your search results?

I hope I don't come off the wrong way; I don't mean to be critical, but what are some examples that would be a good use for this on the Boards?

EfficientDynamo2 votes

Cursing would be a pretty easy thing to target. If someone makes a rage post flaming Riot, chances are it isn't worth my time to read it.

UnboundCreator14 votes

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I hope I don't come off the wrong way; I don't mean to be critical, but what are some examples that would be a good use for this on the Boards?

-lee sin and -yasuo to get rid of all the lee and yas circle jerk hate on my screen.

Brascus21 votes

It's like most of these apes people aren't game designers :o

https://media.tenor.co/images/4cafe7922bf8b4801a1500344279299f/tenor.gif?noredirect

AwesomeChad6 votes

Please, I'd prefer the term priviledged homo sapiens.

Brascus4 votes

Apologies

http://imgur.com/Vk8yzwA

Melledoneus16 votes

To be fair, Laughing Fish does not make a lot of Gameplay posts and MM is reasonably tolerant with his views.

These celebrities are known for their memes and flashy names if anything.

But if we have a hate train against this, which is ironic since you're protesting that very thing, then this comment will be seen only be the most dedicated Boards perusers.

Skins Project2 votes

<3

I'm here

Melledoneus2 votes

Ah, yes. The guy who does the skin spotlights, right?

Skins Project2 votes

................

Shenpai...

Your testing me aren't you....

Melledoneus3 votes

*You're

You have failed the first test.

Hello I am Bird2 votes

I can't say I'm trying to start a hate train, though I might accidentally be doing that

In my eyes it's sort of a half-rant half-PSA type post (Even though that's not really what PSAs are but it's what the boards have turned them into). Mostly just me pouring my emotions onto a computer screen in hopes that someone will better in some way for it, and we can have a better boards overall because of it.

Laughing Fish11 votes

There is a reason my posts always get upvoted

http://img.pandawhale.com/83940-Im-a-creative-genius-gif-Kanye-hcuQ.gif

Hello I am Bird4 votes

While you're here, I may as well clarify that this post wasn't meant to be an attack on you or MM, more on the community of League as a whole. I don't have any problem with you guys posting, instead I'm angered by the community's bandwagon attraction to post the exact same thing you guys post if it isn't on the memes and games boards.

Laughing Fish5 votes

Style matters. Attitude matters. What often happens is someone will be condensending and pessimistic while they make a point, and receive downvotes. Someone else makes a humorous post making the same point in a light hearted manner, and recieves upvotes. Yes, both posts made the exact same point, but they were not the same.

Sometimes, you need to inject some swagger if you want to get upvotes https://i.giphy.com/3oriNUhx4FLc707jq0.gif

SlntReaper10 votes

so like should we kill fish? i say yes

Melledoneus5 votes

If you're gonna get salmon, smoke it first.

Skins Project2 votes

I mean..

Smoke it before you get it?

(Also how would you smoke it, shoving tobacco down it's lungs?)

P.S. Yes I do know how you smoke a fish.

SlntReaper1 votes

Smoke it by "smoking him out." So here's what we gonna do... We gonna make a thread proclaiming Melledoneus as God of M&G, then we gonna unseat him in a wide vote that will totally not fail!
Good plan?

Glory ln Death1 votes

You trying to start the 3rd Meme War, boy?!?! The Boards can't handle another catastrophe like that!

SlntReaper2 votes

We can if we manage to bring down Laughing Fish! Laughs in hidden

Malicious Metal10 votes

Honestly? Quality content is upvoted.

It's up to the author to make it enjoyable and eye catching for the reader though to make it gather attention and thus become hot-page material. Good formatting, easily processed paragraphs, an anecdote or two and a picture that makes for a good thumbnail are some of the things that make a post get upvoted.

But yeah, let's just complain about the circlejerk, thus creating ANOTHER anti-circlejerk-circlejerk to combat the circle-jerk instead of actually trying to make good posts. That'll do the trick, right?

UnboundCreator15 votes

[{quoted}](name=Malicious Metal,realm=EUW,application-id=cIfEodbz,discussion-id=aKEu8Xvc,comment-id=0010,timestamp=2017-05-16T01:45:11.802+0000)

Honestly? Quality content is upvoted.

It's up to the author to make it enjoyable and eye catching for the reader though to make it gather attention and thus become hot-page material. Good formatting, easily processed paragraphs, an anecdote or two and a picture that makes for a good thumbnail are some of the things that make a post get upvoted.

But yeah, let's just complain about the circlejerk, thus creating ANOTHER anti-circlejerk-circlejerk to combat the circle-jerk instead of actually trying to make good posts. That'll do the trick, right?

This post isn't a circle jerk though. If you say quality content is upvoted then i am very skeptical of your intelligence.

Malicious Metal9 votes

I've seen the same kind of thread pop up every so often. People always seem to complain about "low quality" posts reaching the hot page and not "actual discussions" when most of their own post fall into the same category like the things they seem to complain about.

And honestly, I think we need better moderation, ESPECIALLY in Gameplay as the same kind of thread pops up several times a weak. And it's getting tiring, I already see Lee Sin enough in game, don't have to put up with him on the boards as well :^)

Karfuss11 votes

[{quoted}](name=Malicious Metal,realm=EUW,application-id=cIfEodbz,discussion-id=aKEu8Xvc,comment-id=0010,timestamp=2017-05-16T01:45:11.802+0000)

Honestly? Quality content is upvoted.

It's up to the author to make it enjoyable and eye catching for the reader though to make it gather attention and thus become hot-page material. Good formatting, easily processed paragraphs, an anecdote or two and a picture that makes for a good thumbnail are some of the things that make a post get upvoted.

But yeah, let's just complain about the circlejerk, thus creating ANOTHER anti-circlejerk-circlejerk to combat the circle-jerk instead of actually trying to make good posts. That'll do the trick, right?

The post isn't a circlejerk. It's a rant about the blatantly obvious circlejerking that exists on these boards.

And let's not pretend high quality posts are upvoted. They're really not.

Big Lincoln7 votes

Then, when Laughing fish or Malicous Metal posts the exact same idea, worded generally the same, they get hundreds of upvotes.

can you provide proof of this

MagicFlyingLlama42 votes

Look at the boards.

woobee7 votes

The hell is that

Sraeg201329 votes

http://i.imgur.com/39690.jpg?b

Mecha MaIphite19 votes

Asked a fairly reasonable question and got downvoted for challenging the OP's position.

How fucking ironic, in a thread condemning circlejerk. Really shows how much you guys learned.

Big Lincoln10 votes

boards has anti-circlejerk circlejerks regularly, im not surprised

Hello I am Bird3 votes

Can you please not go against the OP on a hot post? People don't like that :^)

Anyhow, I suppose I don't have any specific examples, because it's really hard to find threads that were downvoted into oblivion from the past Or maybe I'm just stupid and I've been wrong the whole time, that's a possibility too

Glory ln Death8 votes

Malicious Metal certainly does get a lot of upvotes for his posts by virtue of his popularity (though, to be fair, his popularity is largely due to him making pretty quality posts that actually have a lot of thought put into them and are generally on-point), but Laughing Fish only posts in M&G (and, occasionally, GD when he feels like trolling them). Is it really an issue that he's popular in M&G?

FantasySniper7 votes

I would add to that list of celebrities, but I think we all know who the up-vote farmers are around here.

It's difficult to talk about balance on the boards. Anytime you bring it up the boards has to redefine what balance even is to derail the thread.

It's also impossible to suggest ideas, because you either go short and sweet to pander to people's attention span, or you actually come up with a serious solution and your audience dwindles to nothing.

DonnieDarkin5 votes

You nailed it. The brainwashed masses will instinctively down vote you if you are critical of the game or Riot. Their stupid nerd egos compel them to try to cut down the person who criticizes, as if they are personally offended by it. For example, I have said as much myself in my posts, but I get downvoted because, ya know, I main Aatrox and I am quite cutting with my remarks, so fuck me right?

These boards are populated by some of the weakest, stupidest, thin skinned sacks of shit I have ever encountered.

Hèntaî 3 votes

That last bit made me chuckle. Its so true though.

Thresh Outta Fux3 votes

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That last bit made me chuckle. Its so true though.

That last bit made me upvote. xD

AwesomeChad3 votes

league boards are like 4chan and Reddit. If you post here, expect to meet biased people. trust me on this. I've been there where you have ventured. If you post something that does not align with the views of the board, you get downvoted. I literally had to manipulate my words so I could get my point across without getting banned by the boards moderators.

Friendly Ram2 votes

nah 4chan has alot more wank but they do get about as much done there.

AwesomeChad2 votes

fastest way to lose your innocence is to visit 4chan.

Zephyrous X2 votes

yeah the whole idea of people being boards celebrities really pisses me off, they tend to be smug assholes a lot of the time

Quil Evrything2 votes

What you have described is typical for ANY human group interaction, sadly. Its standard human group dynamic.

Nymzo1 votes

Well... they kinda deserve it, don't you think?

They didn't got popular by magic, you know. They made good posts constantely while entertaining people in the process.

Also being noticed by Reds help quite a bit.

Leetri6 votes

The problem isn't that the celebrities get upvoted. The problem is that Regular Joe makes a post saying "X needs a look at" and gets downvoted to oblivion, but then one of the local celebs say the exact same thing and get hundreds of upvotes instead. Suddenly everyone on the boards agrees with that topic and everyone else tries to ride that wave of free points with similar posts.

Ahristocats2 votes

do you know a single lulu thread that got upvoted?

because no matter how hard i tried it didn't work, and i got a thousand of downvotes from people that don't play in high elo because they couldn't know how lulu was gamebreaking

and now she's getting nerfed

point is no matter who tries to talk about something it won't end up suddenly in tons of upvotes

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