Differences in communities

theveldman·10/1/2019, 6:00:33 PM·2 votes·2,183 views

So I have to wonder why the league of legends boards are so toxic. The league community is heavily moderated and filtered, but it is still salty and toxic. Meanwhile with Steam, there is very little moderation action taken. For example Team Fortress 2 does what it wants when it comes to the discussions boards and game. But nobody from Valve filters out opinions or discussions. The TF2 community is very happy, but the League community is insanely toxic.

I have to wonder, is there some sort of correlation between speaking freely in a game community that goes as it wishes, compared to a heavily moderated one?

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Jungle Potato710/1/2019, 7:16:22 PM3 votes

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So I have to wonder why the league of legends boards are so toxic. The league community is heavily moderated and filtered, but it is still salty and toxic. Meanwhile with Steam, there is very little moderation action taken. For example Team Fortress 2 does what it wants when it comes to the discussions boards and game. But nobody from Valve filters out opinions or discussions. The TF2 community is very happy, but the League community is insanely toxic.

I have to wonder, is there some sort of correlation between speaking freely in a game community that goes as it wishes, compared to a heavily moderated one?

I noticed myself when I asked for genuine opinions on my mute that I immediately received downvotes. Let's be honest; The board is full of WBM's (Wannabe Moderators) and they will always defend Riot. The company is never wrong and therefore anyone who questions Riot is wrong.

In my opinion, Riot should stop trying to better the world. Nearly every other online game refers to ignore lists/mute lists/block lists and it seems to work perfectly fine. But Riot rather bans everyone.

Kei14310/1/2019, 9:32:50 PM3 votes

The mods here don't filter out discussions and opinions.

Harrassment and insults are a different matter.

Jennifer42010/1/2019, 6:02:53 PM1 votes

"the more you forbid something, the more people want it"

Tele II10/2/2019, 4:34:48 AM1 votes

As someone with a forum-banned account, I got myself permabanned (on forums) cuz I didnt really care about the consequence. I would HAAATE to get my account banned in the game, but I really dont care about the forums, so I kept breaking the rules. It was something like 56 post removals and a few 14 day bans before i was finally permabanned. This was over a 5 year period, mind you, its not like everyday i was just coming here telling people to fuck off lol. And it was completely on me, I know when I'm breaking the forum rules but I chose to do it anyways. Not complaining about that.

I think the nature of player behavior boards is why it comes off so toxic. You got people basically complaining about punishments, posting abrasive chat logs, calling people snowflakes, and then complaining about downvotes as they call the "community" all sorts of insults. And then you have a variety of people with different opinions on them all replying to a guy who starts off his post with insults. It just breeds toxicity. I think its just human nature, combined with the topic of this particular board. Of course its gonna be "toxic".