Dear Riot, Please stop hiring your message board mods from the local church.

The Oasis·12/30/2014, 12:54:50 AM·67 votes·11,747 views

They have no problem deleting legitimate, non-troll threads just because they might contain "naughty" words. For some reason Agnes from the Episcopalian church down the road took offense when I quoted the fact that someone called me a....How do I put this so this doesn't get instantly deleted too?.... A "Fudging Gentleman of color who has a posterior and prefers the company of men" for picking an off meta Jungler.

It was a legitimate thread with a full page of non-rage, no-troll responses and yet I guess the people who browse a league of legends forum don't regularly hear 400x worse in 90% of matches they join. People in game will talk about Raping children, exterminating jews, cancer (you should start deleting every thread that talks about champions being cancer, you wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of people who have lost loved ones to it), and yet referring to the fact that someone called me a "fking cunt ass nigger" for not playing the way they want is somehow being offensive.

The reason they gave me was:

We have removed your content due to a violation of the following board rule: Don't be a Jerk Using homophobic slurs does not make you sound edgy or cool. Just like in real life, you will find that doing so on these boards is completely unacceptable.

"Don't be a Jerk"

"Jerk"

I have to wonder if the moderator even read my post.

edit If anyone's curious as to the contents of said post it was as follows:

[Title]"I'm reporting you for picking Lulu jungle...

...regardless of how this game goes. I hope you get permabanned you [insert string of insults that got my post deleted]"

By the 20 minute mark every lane had fed uncontrollably resulting in a 5-27 score. And this was in gold.

Something tells me there were bigger problems than my choice of jungler.

44 Comments

Tamat12/31/2014, 11:39:49 PM27 votes

Hey FriendOfFerghus,

First, I'm sorry for the delay in this response, the Christmas season has been busy for me!

I actually agree with you on the comment that was deleted. You were quoting a dude from a game you played to express frustration, not to spew a bunch of filth. That said, the moderators have you on watch because of some of your previous posting, not least of which was your comment about children. I've included it below to refresh your memory.

"If children don't want to be molested they shouldn't be so damn sexy."

Pretty uncool dude.

Going through your posting history, I can see why the moderators have you on watch, and agree with almost every other moderation actions taken against you. I'll talk to them about the rest to prevent it in the future. In the meantime, I'd suggest that you tone it down some. It'll get you off the watch list, and probably prevent moderators from being overly strict with you in the future.

the Anarchit3cht12/30/2014, 3:00:21 AM10 votes

Don't you question Agnes. He's a little slow, but once he get's going he goes good.

Varkarrus12/30/2014, 5:08:42 AM8 votes

You should probably censor those words anyways, even if you're quoting them.

Tearin True12/30/2014, 3:29:10 PM7 votes

I have to admit that when I started playing I was really surprised by the language here and in game. Frankly, I did not understand it until you posted what the mod said to you. The fact that the mod would call you names "jerk" shows that top down problem RIOT has. If RIOT wants to change the climate of horrible language and bad attitude then it needs to start with them.

Oh and it has nothing to do with being a church goer, writing caustic words does make a person sound stupid.

ƒæµ12/30/2014, 8:32:15 AM6 votes

I feel like the MODS here have actually never played a game of league of legends lol. Jerk really? That's honorable in this game. If someone calls me a jerk I would think wow nice dude to not insult LOL.

Pika31012/30/2014, 8:00:14 PM5 votes

What? There are forum mods? Feels to me that they don't even exist.

Even after reporting a post that is blatantly libelous and propaganda, including direct and profane harassment of individuals, the posts get completely untouched.

It honestly seems like the mods on these forums are they themselves trolls. They leave other trolls alone out of** professional courtesy,** then delete the most random things without just cause.

tYctz6q3er12/30/2014, 1:44:37 PM4 votes

I made a post on the Story & Art thread where it got removed for not "following board guidelines". The post was a compliment to whoever made the snowdown music. How does that not fit into art?

ThatKatGuy12/30/2014, 10:29:48 AM4 votes

logged in to upvote this

Robot Beat Rally12/30/2014, 4:43:13 PM2 votes

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Shro0mie12/31/2014, 4:36:23 PM2 votes

Thank god someone posted about this, I wanted to post something like this but figured it would just get deleted as there'd be no way I could do it without using offensive language and getting deleted.

Recently I started bashing the people bashing riot for their 10% discount they announced would happen on 1/12 (league players the only players you will hear bitch about free money) for calling people complaining broke a** nias. where I live Nia is NOT an offensive word, but one actually used to call a homie or like Nia please. Now call someone a Nier and yourll get your ass beat, 100%. However only people who grew up in a church or very very white people from a private school who have probably not ever hung out with teh black community (or any blacks at all for that matter) would find it offensive and call it "racism." my family is of mixed races yet somehow I get my post deleted for racism. Also great point about the boards "not legally being rated" like the LoL is rated "teen" in terms of legality. Let the people here have freedom of speech like in the rest of the country. Cigar removed from graves? okay. But any game with online communication cannot be rated by ESRB and says so on every game label. People talk WWAAAAAYYYY worse in game, but use a term like f*** in context on boards? uh oh, oh no, someon 13 year old who's computer doesnt have parental controls might see it, cause you know, hes never heard the word before in his life. Specially if he plays league cause all those words are censored......okay......

ChexMex12/30/2014, 11:23:11 AM2 votes

Message board mods kill me. 5 of my posts got removed for don't be a jerk when i was defending a woman's rights. Go figure.

Lonefire Blossom1/3/2015, 2:07:56 AM1 votes

I don't like how profanity is deleted even though it's not meant to be offensive, it doesn't hurt anybody, fuck, fuckity, fuck fuck...

Red Pheonix12/31/2014, 3:14:36 AM1 votes

Well this is the same reason i pretty much don't use any forums. There's always those forum mods that do stuff that really irks me.

AiglosSpear12/31/2014, 3:58:56 AM1 votes

lets us (at least) try to be a "proper" mature here, languages is like a religions. it's not responsible for the crime that the believers committed, because languages first made just as one of the tool to communicate. the way i see it, you just like saying that "weapon kills people" not "people kills people". we all know that it's just another wrong mind that has been planted by the Demon himself long time ago, and as i saw the "reason" that whoever made it..the word "Jerk" at the left bottom of it is simply wanted to say that the creator of that "reason" is also a Jerk. so MAYBE he/she wants to deliver a morale message that even him/her is a Jerk, they still know their own limit. i know that is not the right response to this matter, but if you see this world ONLY from YOUR OWN point of view then get ready to call the priest cause you're gonna go six feet under in no time. and don't forget the fact that this game is not rated for kids, and even though that is not a reason to justify the behavior still we all know (at least i know and believe) that it takes more than words to bring a "proper" mature down. so wake up and taste the world dude, happy endings never made by laugh and joy..

"find me an immovable object, and i'll put this question to rest" - Xin Zhao -

TouchMyBubble12/31/2014, 8:58:09 AM1 votes

Have anyone else got into a situation where two or three people on your side decided to pick on you and start using offensive languages at you? I believe it is very unfair when you are cornered by yourself then at the end of the game, they report you and you get into a trouble such as warning, banned, or restricted chat. Even though you report every one of them, usually ends up with a single warning. I don't believe that people who are in charge of those reports even take a look back on those conversations that players had, which leads them to have bad experience in game and end up quitting the game without enjoying the game as much as they wish to. I hope many others will please read what I am saying and please consider having a better manner during the game play. It is extremely unfair how some individuals are being treated in this game sometimes. I wish for all of us to just get along and stop insulting each other. If you insult a player with lack of skill, it will only lead them to become worse and worse. If you had a bad day and you wish to release your anger on someone else on online, please do not. Just go listen to a music or go walk/run outside the park, what have they done to you so that you can insult them, their mothers/fathers, grandmas/grandpas, sisters/brothers, or whoever you can think of to make that person lose control. Please do respect one another, I'd hate to play a game full of hatreds, I'd rather play a game where everyone can enjoy with well mannered acts and communications. I know that this post will not do anything to change the reporting system, but I do hope to see many people change as they see my post. Thank you for taking your time to read this post and hope you have a great day. If you have any agreements/disagreements, please do comment on here.

^I took my time to write all that just to get it removed. That was so rude.

Demonsolder2112/31/2014, 9:09:02 AM1 votes

Your mom needs to stop hiring message board mods from the local church.

44471627_DEL12/31/2014, 11:59:17 PM1 votes

Simple solution, don't go to the company's boards and use an offsite forum.

JedditeIsARAM1/1/2015, 3:31:42 AM1 votes

Apparently "9 hours ago" three consecutive [Jeddite] posts were deleted for unspecified jerk-ery and the account issued a suspension of unclear duration. Im not even sure I posted anything in the last 12 hours. So I assume some beta-male on the moderator staff read something I posted several days (if not a few weeks ago) and decided that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.

Fantastic work, Rito James™. As always.

Dr Jarjarbinks1/1/2015, 4:00:32 AM1 votes

This thread has the most unintelligible posts I have ever seen.

Your comment about children being attractive, I get it. They wear those cute clothes...JK! I mean I get that it was obviously a joke but idk if I feel like they were wrong for flagging you. Because now that I think about it, it might not have been a joke and GAWD U MAKE ME SICK. Really though I can see both sides. I think riot has handled this perfectly in the end, admitting the error and providing insight as to why it came to pass, regardless if you like their reasoning. There are real pedophiles you know, its not just some concept made up for its comedic value.