the block function should also be allowed on the boards

Eternal Torment··4 votes·398 views

so the boards ecspecially the PB&M section is known for it's content of either far too neutral people or far too emotional and toxic individuals aswell as the fair share of trolls and people who actually simply are unknowing of the littlest Things. so after some thinking i wanted to know:

Would it not be a good idea to allow blocking on the boards aswell? it prevents 2 Players who per say have a toxic relationship to each others from seeing each others on The boards by disabling their visibility of each other's respective threads, disables commenting on each others on other people's threads and also if you somehow find a Loop and get into that blocked person's post disables commenting on their Posts aswell.

while i do understand that there will be a massive abuse from this by trolls and people who just wanna rant for attention instead of talking some ingame context, i do think it would help settle Things. whoever watches the german EUW boards can make the most personal experiences of lasting grudges that goes into an infinite Loop of call Outs and Insults, and on the na boards thought much rarer it also does occur that 2 people seek each others out purely for bashing and create an troll in themselves just to tilt the other individual. it makes talking about Things that bother us or Things we simply dont like very difficult and Overall gives an unwanted challenge to the boards in Terms of honesty and choice of words.

what do you guys think? would it help? or would there be more damage than good?

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Deep Terror Nami2 votes

While they don't have a high priority on boards development atm so this type of feature may not happen in the near future, you can get a blocking feature which hides all of a person's posts through the Forum Enhancement Kit (FEK). You can't prevent them from posting but you can avoid seeing them.

However, completely blocking someone from making comments on your threads is extremely unlikely to happen; this is a public forum, it's meant for community discussion which this does not support. Letting you choose who can post on your comments is just an extreme form of censorship that can and would be severely abused (people would just block everyone that disagrees with them so their threads would appear as if everyone was on their side).

If someone is being a jerk, do not respond to them. If someone is harassing you, report it. If moderation isn't able to see what's going on and doesn't take care of posts that violate the rules, head over to the moderation Discord here so you can provide context to your reports privately.

Eternal Torment1 votes

sounds fair. yeah i specified it would be possible to abuse it by trolls and attentionwhores, im Aware of the risk and danger this gives for egocentric abuse i really couldn't help but ask myself, what could be done to effectively stop a post that was meant to be serious, a champ discussion as an example to go down into an assemblance of trolls. and while ignoring and reporting for harrassment are some steps viable they really do not promise effectivity at all, and even possess the chance to backfire at you aswell. so i came to ask myself. "why not just enable block?" maybe make some Hotfixes to minimize the abuse because yes as stated many people would use this to simply biast their every post, but something really Needs to be done because from what can be seen the toxicity and Emotion on the board is growing steadily. just from being here a few weeks i could tell differences in the amount of good threads vs the amount of rants vs the amounts of trolls, negatively affecting the good threads

Deep Terror Nami3 votes

and while ignoring and reporting for harrassment are some steps viable they really do not promise effectivity at all

I disagree. Reporting harassment and ignoring negative comments is extremely effective.

ModThe Djinn1 votes

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I disagree. Reporting harassment and ignoring negative comments is extremely effective.

This. There has been a pretty swift response time between harassment posts I've reported and their removal, and a number of insulting comments directed at me in Behavior threads that I've simply smiled and ignored. It works pretty well. And people like myself and Deep Terror Nami tend to attract a lot of those comments, I've seen. :P

Eternal Torment1 votes

true it does often show effectiveness but then again it is not garuanteed. i have both witnessed and personally experienced very toxic individuals get away from whatever they did which is the reason why i dont hold high promise for the report function as it stands. i might be wrong, i totally consider that, but i don't have that much trust in the punishment system, or not anymore at least

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

dont hold high promise for the report function as it stands

This is why the Moderation Discord I linked was created. It allows you to contact the moderators directly to provide context to your reports so these things don't go unnoticed.

Eternal Torment1 votes

alright i will check it out. thanks for your honest answer

ModMod Curator1 votes

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true it does often show effectiveness but then again it is not garuanteed. i have both witnessed and personally experienced very toxic individuals get away from whatever they did which is the reason why i dont hold high promise for the report function as it stands. i might be wrong, i totally consider that, but i don't have that much trust in the punishment system, or not anymore at least

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This is why the Moderation Discord I linked was created. It allows you to contact the moderators directly to provide context to your reports so these things don't go unnoticed.

This. It also allows us, as Moderators, to discuss why we might not remove something as well while doing so in a place that prevents us from naming & shaming others. There are thousands of posts made each day and we get tons of reports each day. A large chunk of those reports are for things that don't break the Universal Rules but we don't have a way to educate the person reporting each post on why it's actually OK. The Discord allows us to do that.

As for your original post, as was previously stated, FEK can handle that if you really need it. There are pros and cons to it, as explained. It can definitely contribute to an echo chamber and reporting a post is definitely the better option if someone is actually breaking the rules.

Magical Player1 votes

It'd be used to make 2 camps Party A and Party B

Everyone who agrees with riot and Everyone who disagrees with riot

Just my thought weather thats good or bad, im not sure

Eternal Torment1 votes

i assumed such and noted it under the comment "possible abuse by trolls and attentionwhores"

SSJTribe1 votes

I'm not sure what you mean by someone being "far too neutral". That's kind of an oxymoron don't you think? http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/9/90/Neutropolis.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090321023427

Anyway, yeah blocking should probably exist on any forum.

Eternal Torment1 votes

guess i have misworded myself a bit. so just for clarification, by "too neutral" i simply meant the people who are either Followers in the mindset of something (i.e yasuo broken asf etc) and just contribute their opinions to something because someone else does. in that sense, what i tried to mean is, people who dont really share their own opinion here, dont have their own Things to say, they either rely fully on Facts alone (which is a good Thing) or the word of others

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