Remove ability to downvote/upvote without reading the discussion

SnowFall·8/2/2014, 10:01:38 PM·3 votes·178 views

It's illogical and toxic.

3 Comments

GranspearZX8/3/2014, 12:45:47 AM2 votes

Generally, a statement like this, with zero analysis or any real insight on the topic...

and no real substance other than a four-word sentence...

That's way more toxic than any downvote. Because it creates an illusion of discussion where the OP is clearly not facilitating one.

Daen8/2/2014, 10:06:35 PM1 votes

There are a couple of reasons it's allowed:

  • For threads that link to other forms of content, there is no discussion to read initially
  • The mouseover text on threads is usually enough to give a pretty good idea of the subject matter

To be perfectly honest I kind of agree with you for specifically forum-based discussion, though it breaks down when considering other forms of media being linked to from the Boards.

Hyrum Graff8/3/2014, 12:12:08 AM1 votes

This is feedback that has been given a lot of times in the past.

Riot's response tl;dr:

We know this may be an issue, but right now people aren't actually abusing the feature. We're watching it, and if it becomes an issue, we'll change the feature.