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I would say that there is an issue with the boards.(can we make this place better?)

Marshbouy·12/27/2016, 7:03:46 PM·7 votes·386 views

The vast majority of posts that are made are low effort incredibly low quality. Many of the ones that reach the top of Hot are low quality "upvote if you agree" or complaint posts with >100 characters. It's sad really. Posts like "upvote if you hate yasuo" reach 140 and get seen by hundreds but high quality drawings, good champion designs, thoughtful balance posts, help/assistance guides, and many more all get stuck at less than 30 upvotes and few people notice them.

It's kind of a problem, since good artists, thoughtful people, and helpful ideas get stuck where they are rarely seen. We can easily improve though.

The issue with high quality posts is that they take more effort to interpret and read that 75 letters detailing how OP caitlin is. If people take the time thought to try and look at quality posts then the site can improve over time.

The best things to do are to make quality posts yourselves (instead of shitposting for the sake of shitposting, even though it's fun), encourage people (just a simple "wow this is a great post" in the comments goes a long way), and upvote/invest in them so that more people can see content that people spent time and effort on.

6 Comments

Catastrop12/27/2016, 7:36:48 PM4 votes

People respond to shitposts. Majority of shitposts end up having long and generally insightful discussions in the comments. I remember a time when I was wide-eyed and innocent and tried to make good posts. Tried, because I wasn't familiar with the Boards community so obviously my posts weren't as good as I'd have liked them. Over time, I stopped because I realized from observing the boards and how people interact, that quality does not get discussion flowing, provocation does.

You make any generic thread titled "X is broken/OP/whatever have you" with 2 lines of champion bashing, people are going to want respond. The first couple responses might be trash, but you're going to get one which attempts to argue otherwise in a proper manner. Someone's going to see that and try to counter argue and from there the discussion snowballs. A lot of my game knowledge is accrued from such posts, how to CS, obscure champion interactions, roaming and managing a wave, all from the comments section of shitposts.

I'm not saying the shitposts are a good thing, but I think they're just our community's messed up way of unintentionally gathering and spreading information.

That said, it also makes me sad when I see great and well thought out posts get buried under all the drivel and vitriol. Sometimes this place reminds me of FF.Net, you're constantly wading through crap before you find something worthwhile.

morris112/27/2016, 7:35:47 PM2 votes

Sincerely, for everyone seeing this who does the following thing, stop riding the upvote train and posting the 24th Yasuo QQ thread of the day if you don't even contribute with anything to the topic other than mentioning the same stale facts over and over.

Zaryelle12/27/2016, 8:43:29 PM2 votes

It's usually the meme posts that get tons of posts and comments. When the actual though out posts usually get barely any replies and tons of downvotes. I thought you were going to mention how toxic the boards are, how they're even worse than the LoL in game.

GULAG 4 U12/27/2016, 11:36:29 PM2 votes

In fact, posts such as "upvote if you hate yasuo mains" should not be allowed to exist, period. It incites hate against people for playing a champion they play, why is such behaviour allowed? It's prime example of toxicity. It is not very different from racism neither. "But it's just a video game!!" That's why telling other to KYS isn't allowed in game? So why should these kind of posts be allowed? Riot mods should be ashamed.