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In all honesty, what is the goal of this new discussion board?

Verwyse·2/17/2014, 11:55:19 PM·21 votes·3,815 views

Once these forums become "popular", most likely by force as Riot employees (IronStylus cough cough) will only be replying here in the new future, what's going to happen?

Probably the same thing as what's happening now. You're still going to get people that are angry, or want to cause anger, or are going to post irrelevance, or people who just want to cause whatever havoc they can. I will agree the General Discussion forums aren't exactly always the greatest, but a lot of good discussions still come out of them, as well as a lot of ideas.

Maybe it should just be understood that if the general majority of players that don't like something and want to voice an opinion on it, then they're going to make that known.

I just don't see how having this forum and GD, and then slowly having people from GD trickle in to here is going to solve anything.

Also the main reason I disliked reddit was because I hated the layout for trying to have a conversation, this place feels oddly familiar.

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RiotKrylhos2/18/2014, 4:45:42 AM16 votes

The goal of this discussion board is to encourage quality conversations, improve on discovering those quality and relevant conversations, and make it easy to create and consume those quality conversations.

As IronStylus has eluded to in some other posts, we have some pretty interesting things we're gonna try out that will vastly differentiate the comment viewing experience from what it is now to address many of the concerns we share.

RiotIronStylus2/18/2014, 4:00:26 AM15 votes

The way I see it is that there will be a critical mass threshold where there are enough people to make the voting system even itself out. Yeah, right now no one is here, so there's no balance because there's no numbers to create good averages. As the population grows that should change.

Main thing is getting some structured conversation I feel. Again, it depends what you want from your dev/player communication experience. If you want things to have a funneled, structured feedback line to us, this place is great for that. If you'd like an open sounding board where there's really not a need for specific answers and is mainly for something like brainstorming, then the GD format works fine probably.

It all depends on the experience you want.

Liracy2/18/2014, 12:13:05 AM15 votes

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Kobila20002/18/2014, 12:35:22 AM14 votes

I don't know what Riot had in mind exactly, but now finally even those of us who aren't from NA have the chance to contribute to important topics. For me that's more than a good enough reason for this forum to exist.

Linna Excel2/18/2014, 5:45:24 AM5 votes

I just think that if it offers some ability to handle those threads which branch out into 3 different subjects in a cleaner manner, that'd be great. Do I love everything about the new format? No. Are some of the changes welcome improvements? Yes.

Raisttlin2/18/2014, 7:45:53 AM4 votes

Just some stylistic changes to this forum would go a long way. Why is the OP's summoner name so small in the title post? and why is it in light blue against a nearly white background? That stuff starts to hurt my eyes if I have been browsing the forum for more than 15 minutes.

The other thing is, nobody likes posting in 7 different forums. Riot has tried to split the GD populace into the subforums before and it didn't work. Why? Not enough traffic. Even if you do have the new GD Beta become the new number 1 source of League discussion, I bet it will all be funneled into one forum "Sub community" (Probably misc).

Edit: Also, what happened to everyone's badges that they earned? Are they coming to this forum? (even though I don't have one) Sorry if that has been answered already.

ScarPirate2/18/2014, 4:19:47 AM2 votes

What I want to know, is why not just build incentive to come here? I perfer GD to reddit so as much as I want to chat with my EU cousins :) I also perfer the message fourm format.