The up/down voting favor groups and cliques to bash lone people. IMO it should be removed from some boards, specially Gameplay and Player Behavior and Moderation.
In these boards legit doubts are sometimes treated as whining and heavily bashed by cliques.
The low voting also sometimes bring up some people to answer these threads in a toxic manner, backed by the "low acceptance" of the thread.
I understand your concerns, and while trolls sometimes try to mass downvote posts containing facts that they're just too stubborn to accept, in general those situations are few and far between. From my experience, generally posts that are genuinely helpful, insightful and/or respectful get upvoted more often, while posts that are mostly just raging, trolling and insulting/harassing are downvoted/removed more often. Low quality posts/posts with flat-out lies also tend to get downvoted often as well.
I have seen some posts by people who question things and/or have doubts that don't get heavily downvoted because they were respectful with their post. Generally as long as you're being respectful in your post then you shouldn't fear getting heavily downvoted.
This forum is the main one. You post anything anti-Riot or anything about shit that goes down and it's a downvote. You have to remember that a lot of people here do nothing but downvote and leave smart ass comments all day.
so should i up vote or down vote this? hmm.....
i feel like they should overhaul the upvote/downvote thread altogether. make it so either A. make it so people can no longer downvote. only upvote B. make it so both the number of upvotes AND downvotes are both shown
As expected, most of downvotes came almost in the same time, by a group that did it anonimously without even caring to show why they disagree.
No disrespect, no rule violations, making clear that it is a suggestion, downvoted anyway.
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