Prevalence of "Whiny" posts.

HeartlessWytche·8/5/2015, 5:16:34 PM·2 votes·506 views

So it seems to me that every time there's any sort of change (PBE or patch notes) at all, the "Hot" view of the boards devolves into endless complaining. Most of the upvoted topics don't even try to be constructive or discuss the possible Pros, they just talk about how Riot's ruined the game AGAIN, killed X champion, and they're quitting in disgust.

Now I have a couple problems with this: A) It's really annoying to read these posts, which has led to me being much less active on these boards. B) It's ruining player credibility with Riot. As in; We as a player base have complained about LITERALLY EVERYTHING Riot does, to the point where further complaining about new things holds no weight. SO if Riot makes a change the player base legitimately doesn't like, then we can't really do anything about it because our protests are drowned out by the weight of all the baseline complaining. To add to this, the player base is so unbelievably hostile to the Rioters that do post that it amazes me that any even make the effort. I mean look at the Rioter's comments, about half the time* they have negative points, and after the post the comments get even more derogatory/ people start complaining about things not relevant to the current topic.

  • It's probably lower than this actually, I went and looked through "Recent" and most of the Rioters posts on the non- front page stuff is positive, it's only when they try to respond to the frontpage flaming that they get nuked with downvotes.

Tl;Dr- Stop upvoting the really bad, non effective rage posts to the frontpage, all it's doing is undermining the communities ability to influence Riot.

2 Comments

SoundChaosDebug8/5/2015, 5:19:27 PM1 votes

shiny happy people holding hands

Dextix LT8/5/2015, 6:01:13 PM1 votes

NO we havent complained about everything Riot does. When they do something good we are happy. Also, we discuss possible pros. THere is just one problem, those "pros" are outweighted by negatives as a feather is outweighted by an elephant.